Transfering Pregnancy

[Xath]

I think the difficulty of the fortitude save should raise depending on how many steps there are between the species of the original mother and intended mother.

 

[The_Universe]

I think the difficulty of the fortitude save should raise depending on how many steps there are between the species of the original mother and intended mother.

It is, when it comes down to it, your spell. I was just trying to refine it based on the concept. Write it up as such!

 

[Storyteller01]

The steal pregnancy idea is really cool - and horrifically sinister.

Shades of the movie "Beast Master".

 

[The_Universe]

Shades of the movie "Beast Master".

Someone mentioned that already. Hilarious!

 

[Bryin]

When the child is transfered, does it start to take on the new mother's race features? Does it get the blood percentage of the time spending in the womb of the new parent?


EDIT- My bad, i didnt see the steal pregnancy

 

[Angel Tarragon]

This is very interesting. This is giving me ideas about the templates (the half templates specifically). A fiend, say a Succubus, could essentially steal a mothers child from her womb, implant it in her own and at birth the child would be a half-fiend succubus/human. Interesting, very interesting.

 

[The_Universe]

As I have it written, the 5th and 7th level versions of the spell do in fact imbue the child with the characteristics of the second mother. In the 3rd level version, the child retains its essential nature. Is there a way that could be made clearer?

As a general question, do the mechanics seem balanced?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Please forgive me The Universe, I must have aciidentally missed that.

 

[The_Universe]

Heh - no forgiveness necessary. I was afraid I had F'ed up the description somehow. I'm just grateful for any feedback I can get.

After I wrote the steal pregnancy version, I was immediately taken with the idea of using it for fiendish reproduction. None of these spells are all that likely to come up in a normal game session, but if they did exist, it might go a long way toward explaining why there are so many bizzarre half-breeds in the D&D universe, pre-existing explanations like draconic versatility nonwithstanding, of course.

 

[Laurel]

Okay so why do the father's genes stay?
I know the whole it's transfering mothers and thus should be the mother's set of DNA... but after the first split isn't it kind of just all the kid's genes?

For the full tranfer, to keep it still interesting with the half templetes what about a random roll 50% to see which set of genes it retains. Or even unbalanced % infavor of the father's genes staying. Or for full transfer it becomes like a clone retaining none of the previous genes?

This may just be unduely complicating things, and so feel free to simply glance over and ignore