Pregnancy and newborns...

[pemerton]

My current Prince Valiant campaign has had quite a bit of romance, courtship, marriage and fathering of children, but no pregnant PCs to date at least.

 

[delph]

I've had only 1 PC become pregnant in decades of gaming, but numerous NPCs have (the fact that I've primarily played with guys plays a major role in both of these). The one PC became so from rape by a minotaur (we have a mature NSFW group), and she chose to terminate the pregnancy using herbal medicines.

Under normal circumstances, I'd really not worry about it too much. Given how much activity a pregnant woman can perform until the third trimester, that gives 6 months easily of activity (although I don't understand the mutation you refer to). In the last trimester, you might start performing more social adventures, where heavy activity isn't an issue. Eventually you should have the events of the campaign stall out, leaving no adventuring long enough for the pregnancy to come to term, then the PC can continue to return to adventuring as a "working mom." Obviously these time frames are based on human timeframes, and should be lengthened as needed for longer lived races.

Mutation Is due by father Is magic user, they use magic drugs in, and she Is wild sorcerer and she Is changed herself by her wild magic. She was man, but wild ressurection changed her to drow woman, And by the time She get one change - her skin color Is vivid Blue. Kole smurf.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

You seem to think that pregnant women having to work hard is some sort of rare occurrence on the level with performing surgery on yourself. It isn't. My mother worked as a cleaner up until a few days before I was born. A good friend of mine works in childcare, also worked right up until a few days before labour (4 times!) My pump instructor was still teaching classes (4 a week!) up until two weeks before she was due. These are all physically demanding jobs.

And these stories come from the rich, well-to-do West. In developing countries many women don't get the luxury of things like maternity leave. Women work hard as long as they can and get back to work as soon as they can.

Does pregnancy slow a person down? Not at all in the early stages. Somewhat in later stages. Can a heavily pregnant woman say to herself "naughty word that!" and power on through discomfort to do what needs to be done? Yes. Obviously. And all of this before we assume that PCs are made of sterner stuff (in the classic heroic mould) than we mere mortals.

If you want to give a penalty to attack because of a large belly and out of whack abdominal muscles?* Go for it. But if you're going to be this " realistic" don't forget to give pregnant women increased hit points & fort saves to represent better tolerance for pain.

As for the penalties you list to mental prowess, really? "Baby brain" is not a real thing. A pregnant woman in a dangerous situation is going to have more Will** to fight and survive than most.


*You can compensate for this with back muscles. Tiring? Sure. But you know, higher pain tolerance and all that.
** capitalised to indicate it's being used in the game jargon sense, as well as the common English usage.

Side note on something that was said that has always been outlandish but was long supported due to horribly flawed research methodology has been corrected and the correction corroborated:
Women actually have a lower pain threshold and lower pain tolerance. Furthermore when experiencing the same pain causing injury women lose the ability to fight through it way faster. Also child birth isnt that bad. There are far more painful things a human can endure. Men deal with every single one of them better. All that being said, my point is "dont run around saying women's higher pain tolerance will do jack to compensate for the pains of lugging around a pregnancy bulge on a battle field because said higher tolerance doesnt even exist anyway and is exactly as absurd as millions of years of male primates brutally fighting clan wars and BREAKING BONES makes it sound" (also before anyone says anything about the pelvis bone breaking stop. Its literally adapted to pop apart at the pubic symphosis so easy in women that it is a common means anthropologists use to determine if a female ever had a child. Its not like breaking a jaw as some claim.) Thankyou 2012. You put away a myth everyone knew was silly as heck.

 

[Ulfgeir]

Come to think of it we have in the Scion-campaign had one of the PC's (a son of Apollon) impregnate a couple of Najads. That hasn't come back and bit him in the arse (yet). One of them happened to be Poseidon's favourite daughter... What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Come to think of it we have in the Scion-campaign had one of the PC's (a son of Apollon) impregnate a couple of Najads. That hasn't come back and bit him in the arse (yet). One of them happened to be Poseidon's favourite daughter... What could possibly go wrong?

HAH!

 

[Son of the Serpent]

@Ulfgeir let's see here apollon spawn + poseidon spawn
Hmmmmmmm
= water demigod of river AND seawater borne variants of illnesses such as cholera? Horribly deadly spirit. Can kill nations over night.

le wow that pairing is a divine-gene douzy

Just an idea

 

[Ulfgeir]

@Ulfgeir let's see here apollon spawn + poseidon spawn Hmmmmmmm = water demigod of river AND seawater borne variants of illnesses such as cholera? Horribly deadly spirit. Can kill nations over night. le wow that pairing is a divine-gene douzy Just an idea Well, good thing then that Poseidon is such a forgiving and kind God...

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Well, good thing then that Poseidon is such a forgiving and kind God...

hes nicer than zeus. Your sarcasm is spot on though. Water and earthquake boy can hold a grudge.

But yeah. Scare the pants off of the pc with something. I feel like this situation is ripe for the picking.

 

[Ulfgeir]

hes nicer than zeus. Your sarcasm is spot on though. Water and earthquake boy can hold a grudge.

But yeah. Scare the pants off of the pc with something. I feel like this situation is ripe for the picking.

Well, I am just a player in the campaign. Not sure if the GM has forgotten. Lets just say that we all are in trouble for various reasons. And not just for things some of us has done. Hell, the whole Indian Pantheon hated us from the start, without us ever doing anything to them. They blamed us for troubles that were Titan-inspired. And we are so far the ones that has solved stuff.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

Well, I am just a player in the campaign. Not sure if the GM has forgotten. Lets just say that we all are in trouble for various reasons. And not just for things some of us has done. Hell, the whole Indian Pantheon hated us from the start, without us ever doing anything to them. They blamed us for troubles that were Titan-inspired. And we are so far the ones that has solved stuff.

Oh. Woops. Thought you were the dm.

Yeah. Just so you know. Appolon + poseidon sounds like a pairing that would create a highly effective city killing (overnight) tpk'r.

Find the child and get it to love you dearly as you corrupt it's innocent mind toward your dark machinations.

If your party is good aligned, have you thought about acquiring dark machinations?