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.
We don't actually deal with it in our campaign either. PC's in a position to create a child are dealt with in a "fade to black" fashion, and the DM doesn't make any rolls on chances of getting pregnant or anything like that.
If a PC wanted her character to become pregnant (and I'd never make a character pregnant unless the player wanted her character to become pregnant), I'd assume that not long after the character knew she was pregnant, she'd have retire from active adventuring at least until the child was born (or possibly weaned, depending on the character's wealth and the technology level). I'd probably do a "9 months pass and nothing exciting happens", and then resume the game from there.
I thought for sure hong would say something about claiming it wasn't his baby, or running away or generally joking about a real life pregnancy.
Which is what one of our gamers currently is dealing with. So, consequently, she doesn't eat and drink what the rest of us do, though we also haven't gamed in about 2 months.
The herbs that can act as a contraceptive have a 5% chance of permanent sterility / impotence for each month of use. This makes it a risky option for those who want to ever have children.
A slightly rare second level arcane necromancy spell can slay the child in the womb. Mother must be willing or helpless for the spell to work.
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.
Because a GM can't kill your character if you're safely locked up in the manor house.
How much and whether a pregnant character could go "adventuring" depends on what kind of "adventuring" we're talking about. Slaying orcs? Probably for the first few months. Long, uneventful ride across the Talenta Plains? Easily. Arcane research? Right up until delivery, just don't sniff the reagents.....
I mean, it's not as though most pregnant women spend nine months on bed rest.
In my campaign, there is a tiefling mermaid. She was once a tiefling sorceress who was magically "merged" with the essence of a mermaid bard. Now she is a sorceress/bard whose mermaid persona acts as a schizophrenic conscience, of sorts.
In my campaign, there is a human. Three thousand years in the past, he was part of an experiment involving grafts, to gain the ability to breathe underwater. The experiment went awry and he was placed in stasis. At the time, he believed the grafts to be those of a locathah. He was wrong. The grafts came from a pseudonatural fish hag, the original shellycoats; a species now long extinct. The personality of the shellycoat has begin to emerge, leaving the human not unlike the mermaid mentioned above.
So, while there are two, there are actually four. Following this, so far? Good. It's about to become more confusing.
Thanks to a liberal application of the Fins to Feet spell (thank you, Savage Species), the mermaid and human had a chance to spend some quality time together. Now she is newly pregnant - with twins.
The possibilities are endless, here. I am tempted to have the subconscious personas of the mermaid and shellycoat manifest in the children, once born. Yet that may leave both parents without the ability to breathe underwater, which is an acknowledged requirement in the campaign.
Add to this an additional unborn child. Another PC is an oceanid, daughter of a salt hag and triton. She is hagtouched, a template of my own design for night hag descendants untouched by the blood of additional outsiders.
The night hag, having been slain by her sea hag granddaughter, is now a spectral hag who has taken to inhabiting a construct fashioned by her paramour, a shade. As "Grandmother Clock", i.e. the iron hag, was fashioned from bits including clockwork horrors and a marut inevitable, I decided that the miracle of life would once again manifest, this time as a half-hag mechanatrix.
To protect her new unborn offspring, the embryo was placed within the emerald hourglass assimilated from the marut and now serving as an external womb of sorts. The oceanid has been charged with the protection of the unborn mechanatrix, who is destined to become one of the most powerful sorcerers of her time.
Before the night hag was slain, she had an unborn child "stolen" by a bone hag Body Snatcher (hag PrC I designed). The bone hag was subsequently captured and the child, daughter of a night hag and celestial, will soon be born. As, in my campaigns, succubi and erinyes are the daughters of night hags, by demon and devil fathers respectively, I have decided that this child will be an asura.
Now for the fun part. My campaign took a bit of a hiatus. After the birth of my third child, I found some land, made an offer and bought it. Now I'm interviewing architects and builders and am knee-deep in house plans.
Spoilers on...my players keep out!
When the story continues, I will take the opportunity to advance the timeline; message-based games do tend to advance at a slower pace. The campaign will be thrust forward three years, while the PCs will age only six months (it's...technical. When I switched from 1e to 3e, the party took a 12-year nap of sorts).
The party will then be faced with several impending births. I will be arranging for a safe haven, in the form of a stable demi-plane, and childcare, either by a clockwork nanny or similar caretaker.
The BoEF has some rules written up for pregnant characters, per trimester. First trimester: No penalties; Second trimester: -25% movement, -2 dex; Third trimester: -50% movement, -4 dex, -2 str.
The herbs that can act as a contraceptive have a 5% chance of permanent sterility / impotence for each month of use. This makes it a risky option for those who want to ever have children.
If a PC wanted her character to become pregnant (and I'd never make a character pregnant unless the player wanted her character to become pregnant), I'd assume that not long after the character knew she was pregnant, she'd have retire from active adventuring at least until the child was born (or possibly weaned, depending on the character's wealth and the technology level). I'd probably do a "9 months pass and nothing exciting happens", and then resume the game from there.
I did not actually mean Shalimar in our Wheel of Time game, I was thinking more along the lines of a Mutants and Masterminds game I was in, where I jokingly told the DM that I would hit him if he made my character get pregnant from what happened while she was being mind controlled. He asked if it would really upset me, and I told him I was fine with it, if he decided her being pregnant was part of the plot, I could go along with it, but a pregnant 15 year old millionaire super-heroine was rather 'out there' for most people. Especially when the father is a billionaire Evil Super-genius who just tried to have her killed and she is too naive to realize it once he makes a kissy face at her.
That situation was what got me curious and prompted me to ask the question, it wasn't exactly a fantasy setting, and it is actually set in 2014 so she has the advantage of being able to say money is of no object and actually meaning it.
As far as that Wheel of Time game though, Shalimar might get pregnant, at some time in the far future, but not til after she is raised to full Aes Sedai and marries Yuri, not that I would do it without Yuri's ok, but WoT has a lot of Social values that are simply not violated, well sometimes they are, but not by someone in Shalimar's position. I wouldn't even hazard a guess as to what the Tower would do to her, or Yuri for that matter. I doubt they would let a pregnant Accepted take the test for sisterhood, or even channel more then absolutely required. Have we seen anyone in the novels get pregnant and have children? Off hand only Elayne and she hasn't had them yet and they are fated to be born different, so do we have any clues about what channeling does to a fetus?
I did not actually mean Shalimar in our Wheel of Time game, I was thinking more along the lines of a Mutants and Masterminds game I was in, where I jokingly told the DM that I would hit him if he made my character get pregnant from what happened while she was being mind controlled. He asked if it would really upset me, and I told him I was fine with it, if he decided her being pregnant was part of the plot, I could go along with it, but a pregnant 15 year old millionaire super-heroine was rather 'out there' for most people. Especially when the father is a billionaire Evil Super-genius who just tried to have her killed and she is too naive to realize it once he makes a kissy face at her.
