Son of the Serpent
Pupil
Ive had pregnancies happen a couple times. Only twice for an actual pc and not an npc. Im a sucker for realism. So are my players. We dealt with it exactly as one might expect one would if this was all real. The npcs have had all manner of outcomes you mght expect. Fairly normal ones typically if we ever touched on them again. Except for in one instance. We had a pc that got an npc pregnant one time. But he was a pixy of noble birth. Not a prince or anything crazy. The child (a half pixy) was whisked away by fey at birth and he had to kidnap it back to give to its mother.Hi, my playgroup got new situation. One our party member is pregnant... So my question is - how usual is it in yours play, how did you deal with it.
we are playing DnD 5, and She is Wild Sorcerer, so she can't cast, because mutating is in game... especially in crit fails.
In the case of pc's, which live a much more dangerous life on average than the typical d&d villager or what have you, one pc was retired for 2 ingame years (after which the pc's sister cared for the child) to avoid the high likelyhood one or both would get killed due to beng far more helpless whole pregnant, and one did not take the advisable route. They were grievously wounded in tge abdomen and had to have an emergency caesarian. The baby died several months early. Later a different pc got 3 wishes from an efreet. The female pc had been keeping the bones of her child. He wished for her baby to be "returned to its mother". Bad choice of words. Realizing his error in panic he then in the blink of an eye asked for the baby to be "resurrected". That caused the undead horror that was about to unfold inside her to stop. He was quick enough to save the day. Now there was the problem that she was still pregnant again though. Thinking over his next request carefully he said "cause the two of them in good health to proceed to the point of time in gestation at which the current pregnancy would reach full term and allow the birth to proceed normally". Way better wish than his first one.
The direct answer for the record is "pc causes npc pregnancies are uncommon but occasional and pc pregnancies are exceedingly rare seeing we only had it happen in campaigns i dm twice across multiple IRL decades and just a few more times i didnt recount in other dms' campaigns."
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