How do you handle Pregnancy in your game?

[Shalimar]

As the title, how would you handle a pregnancy in your campaign, assuming that the woman in question was a Player Character. I've read the Guide to Unlawful Carnal Knowlegde, but that doesn't really deal with the roleplaying fall out of a pregnant adventurer. How would you treat another character in your group if she was pregnant?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I've only had one instance of pregnancy in a game, and it was the player's choice. The player knew she was leaving the game soon, and we had had one adventure where her soul had been switched to another body. She decided that the creature that inhabited her body while she was out had a "good time" with it and got her pregnant. She wanted to keep the baby and so after a short further adventure, the party returned her to her home where she retired and became a happy Mom, who we sometimes drop by and visit.

 

[Thanee]

In the FR they have contraceptives.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Shalimar]

In the FR they have contraceptives.

Bye
Thanee

Not in the Forgotten Realms, but there are still contraceptives. I actually meant if you weren't dead set against having the baby.

 

[Seonaid]

The answer to your basic question is the same as the answer to the question "How would you treat someone who is pregnant?" That is, it would depend on your character and the relationship and the situation, not to mention how the character reacts to being pregnant. For example, my female human paladin would react differently than my male half-elven rogue. For that matter, my female human paladin named Chastity would react different than my female human paladin named Alys.

I think it would be difficult to do it "accurately" if no one in the group has been pregnant (particularly the player). Of course, the fact that none of us has been pregnant in a D&D-type world is kind of a problem for "accuracy" too. But if none of you care about accuracy, then it doesn't matter, and it should be played however makes the group happiest.

Sorry for the ramble, hope it helps.

 

[orchid blossom]

I've read the Guide to Unlawful Carnal Knowlegde, but that doesn't really deal with the roleplaying fall out of a pregnant adventurer. How would you treat another character in your group if she was pregnant?

It's hard for a book to deal with the roleplaying aspects, not knowing what kind of characters are in the game. It would depend largely on the PC's personalities. If there is a particularly vain, spotlight loving PC, they may be jealous of the attention on the mother-to-be. A protector type may make protecting her their primary responsibility. A PC with a very defined moral code may be angry at her if she violated that moral code in getting pregnant, or in continuing to adventure while carrying a child.

In our current campaign, it's already been stated by another PC that if my sorcerer were to get pregnant, he would lock her up in the manor house for safekeeping until the child was born.

Pregnancy is a hard thing to work into a campaign, and it takes an understanding player to pull it off. All the sudden combats are much scarier for that PC, and in the later stages physically more difficult. It can be great roleplaying for someone who wants to go down that road. But don't forget, once the pregnancy is over, there's a child to consider.

 

[Jolly Giant]

Well my girlfriends halfdragon PC IMC recently hatched four eggs, father by a red wyrm... (Yeah, I know; my campaigns get a little weird sometimes! )

I didn't really make that much of deal out of her being pregnant; nor did I need to. She roleplayed it very well without any coersion from me.

PS: While she was "pregnant" with her eggs, she actually got pregnant IRL, and gave birth to our first baby two months before the eggs were due for hatching!

 

[saduff]

I dont even think I would allow such things in my game, but that is me. I look at it like Heroic Fantasy not everyday life of Steve the Adventurer. just boring to me.

Everyones game is different.

 

[Aaron L]

When the paladin in our party became so pregnant she couldn't adventure for a bit, we stopped til she had her baby. After she recuperated we started up again. It was a nice little vacation, and everyone else got to become a gaggle of uncles. Oh, how Malachi (my character) currupted that little boy. He was even named after me(my character)!

 

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

Why in the world would a pregnant woman continue to adventure?

But GUCK I think handles it relatively well.