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Message: <blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 2969897" data-attributes="member: 22162">Exactly my point. This sort of situation must have happened before, so what steps are in place (and what resources are available) in order to validate a candidates claims? And by extension back to the original question, what can a PC do when a woman comes up to him and says, "I'm carrying your child?" Especially when he could in fact be the father of the child, but he wants to know for sure because he really doesn't want to get taken by an opportunistic escort who can't work now because of her condition?The doppleganger isn't a bad idea, but it's just not right for me. There's already enough drama in the situation without having to add a doppleganger into the mix. This girl with a bun in the oven is a real escort that the PC hired about 3 months earlier in the campaign (we just glossed over this, since I don't want to run that kind of a game; he showed up at the party's new digs with a girl on either arm and marked off an appropriate amount of gold to cover the expense) who is really three months with child now and telling the PC he is the father; for whatever reason she really believes it, whether or not it's true, and she's asking him to marry her so she can quit the business and they can raise their child and live happily ever after on his fortune. Maybe she's a nutbag, like the woman a few years back who kept breaking into David Letterman's house. Maybe she received a vision (a devious plot by a demon/devil or a message from the gods?) that the child is the result of her coupling with the PC. Maybe the child really is the offspring of the PC. Maybe it's the offspring of another of her clients and the timing is just an unlucky coincidence for the PC. The real mystery will be how the PC is going to handle this challenge -- Will he marry her and raise the child? Will he hire a private detective, sage or priest to find out if it's really his child? Will he attempt to buy her off or set her up with a more suitable husband (adventurers make terrible mates, you know, always running off into danger and never home at night)? Will he decide it's time to make waves for the next port?I haven't decided yet what the truth of the matter is. I'll allow myself to be influenced by how the PC decides to play it. If he decides he could be the father, maybe I'll decide that he actually is. If he thinks it's a plot to get at his fortune, then maybe it is. I've got enough ideas to go either way here. But I want to be prepared for when he says, "I employ every resource to prove I'm not the father."This is a good idea and would be funny to watch play out. I don't think the woman has too many resources to back her up, but maybe someone she knows who has a vested interest in the situation (her pimp, her estranged merchant family, a devil disguised as her friend who ijust wants to torment the PC, a rival/enemy of the PCs) is footing the bill.</blockquote>

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