Providing Meaningful Choices?

[Rechan]

In my example of the women who are pregnant with abominations, this situation may fail to interest the players, because as I described it, it has no direct impact to the players. Make one of the pregnant women related to a PC (or one of the PCs), and now at least one player probably cares.

This is where knowing your players is key. Because a player could easily get squicked or upset with you if you tred too much into waters that could be personal.

I had an NPC who went insane after a miscarriage. I thought this was an interesting and human explanation for her behavior rather than just "She's nuts". A female player got really upset with me because I brought it up.