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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1237432" data-attributes="member: 7464">Half undead. Like Blade. It's an odd sort of idea. I guess you and I are 100% alive, a ghoul is 100% undead. Half undead are 50/50. Still doesn't make much sense, though. And I think the majority of your "typical D&D world" functions very similarly to medieval european times. Sure, you got your local cleric/adept/bard to do some curing and reduce infant mortality, but you also got dozens of ways to die that medieval peseants only thought they had to deal with. In my mind it would be vital to have your fertile female segment of the population producing children as quickly as possible. Overpopulation just isn't a problem in such a setting, and there are always lots of benefits to children, especially in a rural setting. I don't know how rare pregnant women being turned into undead would be, but it would be at least a few since, well, to put it bluntly, when the undead overrun a town and the villagers flee, the more pregnant you are the slower you run. The thing is, even if 90% of the fertile female population is pregnant at any given time, that's generally not the "traditional" point of D&D. Emerald here <a href="http://www.doulasofthesouthwest.com/" target="_blank">works as a doula</a>, and so these questions are always in the forfront of her mind. The traditional male D&D demographic just doesn't want to think about pregancy and birth and all that women-stuff when they're playing. They want to give the barmaid a friendly slap on the behind and give 'er a little wink, but they don't want her to be seven months pregnant from the last adventuring group that wandered through the village. edited 'cause I always gotta do it.</blockquote>

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