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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 989295" data-attributes="member: 8461">Some of my initial reactions to Chapter 5's Pregnancy & Childbirth sections:Ditch the monthly check. It doesn't seem to fit well for a plethora of reasons. For one, the amount of modifiers to be calculated is unwieldy. It also doesn't seem to address that a woman could have plenty of sex with multiple people in a month, which means things like Paternal Modifiers become somewhat complex, since you have to add in all the modifiers for all the males she's slept with over a month. Likewise, there is no way in that system to track which male is then the father of the child. It would also make little sense that a woman could, under this system, sleep with someone and not be pregnant from it until a month later.The conception threat roll method is, IMHO, much better. It will require us to go through the monster section and list out the fertility of the creatures there, but that's acceptable.Under the actual pregnancy section, the first thing that leapt out at me is that you don't say what kind of check is made against Weakness, Awkwardness, and Exhaustion (though its assumed they're Fort saves).The notation in red there is right in that that way of measuring things will be very hard on commoners. It is, however, incorrect about the Con loss killing her through negative hit points alone, since Con drain won't reduce your hp below 1 hp/hit die. However, that said, it will almost certainly make surviving the birthing damn hard, since commoners will have a very low Con by then. Even if giving birth just deals damage, that alone will kill a lot of them.I recommend that these checks only be made during the beginning of the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth stages. The rationale here is that I think the system presented for pregnancy is, in and of itself, a good one, but it is a bit too heavy. This way, halving it (almost), will give commoners an easier time surviving it, but will still make it not too uncommon that women die in childbirth.I'm also thinking that the Weakness part of the checks should be abandoned, since, AFAIK, women may become less graceful and more tired while lugging around a heavy child in their womb, but nothing says they lose physical strength (as opposed to constitution).I'd also suggest a section about how, during pregnancy, every hour after waking the pregnant female is Nauseated for one hour afterwards.</blockquote>

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