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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 592529" data-attributes="member: 8439">Random comment - I am suddenly reminded of a time when I as a player may have inadvertently touched a nerve on the dm. I had a character who was a semi assassin (not the class yet) who had self trained in order to kill her husbands. The background was that she was a noblewoman in a soceity where that basically meant "brood mare for sale" and had a maternal line history of serious childbirth complications.  She somehow got it stuck in her head that the only way she was gonna live past 30 was to be a widow, so she set about it. I wrote a story as character background, replete with middle ages worst case childbirth scenerios. later it occured to me that giving this story to a guy whose wife was currently pregnant with their first child might have been somewhat insensitive. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> he never brought it up and since I had been openly gung ho for homebirths (I lent his wife Spiritual Midwifery) I doubt he had taken this as my actual veiw of birth. But I felt bad about it and resolved not to use this character is the future without makingit clear that this was a combination of her bad genes, a worst of both worlds time in childbirth and her personal instability, not a message that pregnancy in general was dangerous enough to kill to prevent.kahuna burger</blockquote>

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