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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 669846" data-attributes="member: 1328">I know there exist differences in mathematical representation (like, in my country, we would use 7/3 when in the Anglosaxon world that would be written 2 1/3), but as far as I know, that would be written either:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">-(CL/2 +1), or</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(CL/2 +1) * -1.</li> </ul>I know, I was just doing some over-all probability calculations.I know it's not like combat and you won't normally have several dozen of such rolls to make in one session, but I was just wondering if it was nonetheless useful to add extra steps. What I'm saying is we could achieve the same result in one single roll, by giving penalties to low-birth-rated races and bonus to fast-breeding ones.Maybe we could give the second roll a real utility by having it represent something slightly distinct, like the probability of successful pregnancy. A failure would result in a miscarriage.Then, if we go with that option, it should probably be turned into a Fortitude save.Since there was 2 checks, I was just wondering.Although the father may have something to bring in the calculation of the first roll. Notably, if he's in the optimal age (that last longer than women's one, but the quality and the quantity of his seminal fluid decrease after the andropause (male "equivalent" of menopause). As well as the probability to stay erect and ejaculate if he gets really old. A race modifier could also be featured there (i.e., elf male would give, say, a -2 penalty to the conception roll).On this topic of races, I'm not sure if we should give half-orcs a greater chance of pregnancy than human -- orcs may breed faster and more frequently, but that don't indicate an orc/human hybrid will be more fertile (there are in the real world several example of hybridized creatures with a fertility so low they are considered sterile, like tigre/lion crossbreeds).Well, that's still the kind of thing that we are expected to find in a book like this one, at least the "talk about that beforehand with the players" recommendation.Or a very pissed off husband ! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />'Twould be tasteless to say women get the shaft there, but... Fiends and dragons can frequently polymorph self in a more human(oid) guise. Female PCs, don't forget to have a constant True Seeing effect, or at least to cast Dispel Magic on every enterprising male...</blockquote>

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