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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2405876" data-attributes="member: 2013">Slightly OT, but I remember when my wife was expecting our first.&nbsp; I was GMing a Saturday game session, the players were 3rd or 4th level and were tomb-crawling and had just been set upon by a pair of mummies (this was about two or three months after 3e came out).In round 2 of combat, the phone rang.&nbsp; It was my wife, at work.&nbsp; &quot;Honey, I need you to come get me now, I haven't felt the baby move for over a day.&quot;&nbsp; The look on my face told my players something was seriously wrong when I said, &quot;we'll leave off right here, I have to go RIGHT NOW, I will see you all next week if all is well.&quot;&nbsp; That's right, I dropped everything, in the middle of a combat round, and walked directly to the car.&nbsp; They cleaned up, and noted the iniatitive counts and marked where we were in the order for the next session (I had good players).Of course, while I was on my way to pick her up, the baby started kicking and all was well... my wife had gotten some &quot;scary stories&quot; about stillborn babies at work and freaked when she realized the baby hadn't kicked her for a while.&nbsp; &quot;The baby&quot; is now 4.5 and doing quite well, thank you.The funny part of this is that one of the veteran players looked up the Mummy in his brand-new MM that week, and called one of the other guys.&nbsp; &quot;Hey, um, have you seen the mummy entry?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;No.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;You might want to open up your Monster Manual...&quot;&quot;Okay... what?&quot;&quot;Look at the mummy rot ability.&quot;&quot;#)(&amp;*@%#*!!!&quot;They told me about this at the next session (one of my rules was PHBs at the table, but after the session, you can look at other reference books, so I wasn't mad).&nbsp; A moment I would not have been able to appreciate had my baby not interrupted me.As others have said, newborns are easy.&nbsp; It's the 2-year-olds you have to watch out for.&nbsp; Especially the fiery ones.&nbsp; Like my daughter.&nbsp; *rolls eyes*--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 2405876, member: 2013"] Slightly OT, but I remember when my wife was expecting our first. I was GMing a Saturday game session, the players were 3rd or 4th level and were tomb-crawling and had just been set upon by a pair of mummies (this was about two or three months after 3e came out). In round 2 of combat, the phone rang. It was my wife, at work. "Honey, I need you to come get me now, I haven't felt the baby move for over a day." The look on my face told my players something was seriously wrong when I said, "we'll leave off right here, I have to go RIGHT NOW, I will see you all next week if all is well." That's right, I dropped everything, in the middle of a combat round, and walked directly to the car. They cleaned up, and noted the iniatitive counts and marked where we were in the order for the next session (I had good players). Of course, while I was on my way to pick her up, the baby started kicking and all was well... my wife had gotten some "scary stories" about stillborn babies at work and freaked when she realized the baby hadn't kicked her for a while. "The baby" is now 4.5 and doing quite well, thank you. The funny part of this is that one of the veteran players looked up the Mummy in his brand-new MM that week, and called one of the other guys. "Hey, um, have you seen the mummy entry?" "No." "You might want to open up your Monster Manual..." "Okay... what?" "Look at the mummy rot ability." "#)(&*@%#*!!!" They told me about this at the next session (one of my rules was PHBs at the table, but after the session, you can look at other reference books, so I wasn't mad). A moment I would not have been able to appreciate had my baby not interrupted me. As others have said, newborns are easy. It's the 2-year-olds you have to watch out for. Especially the fiery ones. Like my daughter. *rolls eyes* --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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