Adventuring while pregnant

[Alzrius]

Other religions that have similar views to that of the Catholic church on this topic include (and please correct me if I'm wrong here): Islam (1,254,222,000), Judaism (14,551,000), and Christian Orthodox (217,030,000).

As a Jew, I've never heard of anything outrightly forbidding use of contraceptives.

Also, there's nothing that says a group can't be both a majority and extraordinarily conservative.

Also, how is the Christian Orthodox different than the Roman Catholic Church?

 

[Xath]

And before it gets Mod-worthy, let's steer the thread away from religion, and back to sex and the concequences thereof.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Those ovulation charts, for instance, assume a lot when it comes to the lifestyle of the women involved.

Given the athleticism, stress, injury, and diet involved in adventuring I imagine that any women involved are fertile at far far less frequent and predictable intervals then we commonly experience.

And then the actual experience of pregnancy and having a child nearby is going to be....

....hooo, Dr. Spock's just not gonna have anything to say about it.

That is an excellent point that I hadn't really thought of... just assumed that the characters in the world are as fertile as women today-- probably a very wrong assumption on my behalf...

Now, I have a whole new field to research about!

 

[The_Universe]

I am not attempting to condone or disagree with this religious belief, but your remarks are a bit out of line. I can say with certainty that the Roman Catholic religion does not condone birth control and thier population has been estimated, worldwide, at 1,092,853,000 (in 2003). Hardly what you would call a "extraordinarily conservative religious bent", rather, the world's second largest religion to date. Other religions that have similar views to that of the Catholic church on this topic include (and please correct me if I'm wrong here): Islam (1,254,222,000), Judaism (14,551,000), and Christian Orthodox (217,030,000).

Over 2 billion people worldwide hardly qualify as "extraordinarily conservative".

T from Three Haligonians

My comment was not meant to offend in any way. Because the mods here at ENworld are very conscious of any religious discussions, I was simply trying to allude to certain religious groups without coming out and naming them. After all - not everyone who follows the basic tenets of even a sect of (just as an example) Christianity or Judaism may follow all of its tenets. Are there Roman Catholics using birth control? Very probably. Are their members of the Jewish faith who eat bacon? Very probably. Is that bad or good? Not my business.

Regardless, I am somewhat frustrated that I can't use the term "conservative" without someone assuming I mean "bad" any more than if I had said "liberal" or "radical" and someone assuming I meant "good." That is not the case. It's simply a description of where, on a basic continuum, such beliefs tend to lie.

Anyway, if I offended someone with my characterization, I am sorry. That's where I thought the beliefs were (in general) on the basic ideological continuum I mentioned. I'll remove the offending "extraordinarily" from my original post, but leave the "conservative."

Deal?

(Thanks, mods, for being understanding thus far)

 

[Three_Haligonians]

Deal!

I think it was just the "extraordinary" we were arguing. And thanks for making an effort to not offend. You know how it is when you *read* something, as opposed to hearing someone say it. Sometimes you take it in a completely different tone from the one intended. Sorry for making wrong assumptions about your tone, and sorry if we sounded like we were jumping all over you,

R from Three Haligonians

 

[The_Universe]

Deal!

I think it was just the "extraordinary" we were arguing. And thanks for making an effort to not offend. You know how it is when you *read* something, as opposed to hearing someone say it. Sometimes you take it in a completely different tone from the one intended. Sorry for making wrong assumptions about your tone, and sorry if we sounded like we were jumping all over you,

R from Three Haligonians

Cool.

Now - can anyone think of uses of core 3/3.5E spells and magical items that would speed or ease pregnancy? I'm fascinated with the idea - it could certainly help the players in my game.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Cool.

Now - can anyone think of uses of core 3/3.5E spells and magical items that would speed or ease pregnancy? I'm fascinated with the idea - it could certainly help the players in my game.

There was the reference to the Bag of Holding (Womb of Holding?) idea... I'm curious to know how someone would make that work... I find the concept both hilarious and interesting...

 

[Zappo]

The chance of getting pregnant changes depending on where a woman is in the cycle- the ovulation chart says what that chance is depending on the day of the sex.

Yes, but if all involved characters have no information on the current point in the woman's cycle, then the day itself is effectively random and the whole chart can be summed up in a single percentile chance by averaging the chance for each day. The end result will be exactly as accurate.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Yes, but if all involved characters have no information on the current point in the woman's cycle, then the day itself is effectively random and the whole chart can be summed up in a single percentile chance by averaging the chance for each day. The end result will be exactly as accurate.

When dealing with the pregnant NPC, the DM randomly assigned a cycle day for the woman... with the PCs, he would ask the PCs to guess a day... and then, it's all up to the percentile dice.

 

[The_Universe]

Yes, but if all involved characters have no information on the current point in the woman's cycle, then the day itself is effectively random and the whole chart can be summed up in a single percentile chance by averaging the chance for each day. The end result will be exactly as accurate.

I see what you're saying. However, since it was easy to get a chart that works for humans in real life, I did that, rather than trying to guess at what the general chance for a human woman to get pregnant is, regardless of cycle-day.

I don't have (or want) the BoEF, or any similar book, so in the rare occaison when such things come up, I default to real life.

There is, however, nothing wrong with just assigning percentile and rolling.