Randomized pregnancies..

[Storm Munin]

The server world encompass all sorts of methods and means to avoid a pregnancy, or end one.

But being a believer in letting the random be a part of character development I have at times found a need for a credible way to handle unforseen consequences of certain faded actions.

Has anyone seen a lore supported way of dealing with such dice rolling?
Come up with an own idea of a system on the subject?


From the real world we do know that getting pregnant can be anything from ridiculously easy to impossible.
In Faerun we not only have humans to consider but all sorts of fun creatures to play with.

What would be a credible chance of procreation occuring?
Surely it differ depending on what races are involved and whether the presumptive mother can inately make a choice in the matter.

From the novels we do know Dworcs are possible but what are the odds?


Trying hard not to cross the PG-13 lines here...

and I do want opinions.


Peace

/M

[Passiflora]

There's a book about it, and similar things.

Search for it, I wont post it here.

Also though, remember, stay IC with it. If someone gets pregnant, it takes nine months for humans, and TWO YEARS for elves, to roleplay as pregnant. There's no shortcuts.

[Hoihe]

There's a book about it, and similar things.

Search for it, I wont post it here.

Also though, remember, stay IC with it. If someone gets pregnant, it takes nine months for humans, and TWO YEARS for elves, to roleplay as pregnant. There's no shortcuts.

There are.

Cast Gate, go to a plane/pocket plane where time passes at a rate of 365 days spent on that plane equaling 1 day on the Prime, and you've got it down!


And ye, Catam has that book..

[Passiflora]

There are.

Cast Gate, go to a plane/pocket plane where time passes at a rate of 365 days spent on that plane equaling 1 day on the Prime, and you've got it down!


And ye, Catam has that book..

Can you plane-travel ingame without a master of the universe saying you can? No.

I think this closes the subject of quickened pregnancy.


Unless of course you hire 5000 wizards with extend spells, and have them cast haste on the pregnant woman constantly. This may - or not - quicken the pregnancy by 50%.

[Hawke]

Epic spells allows a spellcaster with the right amount of spellcraft to create/cast a spell to create their own dimension, and the make it permanent. Strictly speaking PnP of course.

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/genesis.htm

[Deathgrowl]

Also though, remember, stay IC with it. If someone gets pregnant, it takes nine months for humans, and TWO YEARS for elves, to roleplay as pregnant. There's no shortcuts.

You may well be right, but out of curiosity, where's the source on elven pregnancy? I keep hearing people say this, but the only sources I can find about this is Races of the Wild which says nine months, and the Elves of Faerûn compilation that seems very homebrew, which says two years.

I can't find any official Forgotten Realms books about it. It's not in Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and not in Races of Faerûn.

[Hoihe]

I think elves of Faerun got it from the novels. It is sourced by source books, both FR and general D&D, and books, with an eye kept open for the order of importance so players don't have to worry about contradictions that much. That's my understanding at least.

[Storm Munin]

There is no end to lore is there?

Sometime the results of creativity and imagination may be oddball but they do make sense..somehow.

Thanks all, found what I was looking for.

It seems there is a reason for elves being portrayed as they are (beyond the need of novelist's to sell books to mostly more or less adolecent males of human origin).

/M

[DM Asgorath]

The infamous book of Erotic Deeds, or whatever it was called, also detailed just how exactly long pregnancies for each race are. And iirc, elven pregnancy lasts 2 years. I may be worng though, last time I read that book was something like 10 years ago.

[Deathgrowl]

Well, it appears there are some inconsistencies, then...

Page 13 of Races of the Wild.

[Simian]

Page 50, the Complete Book of Elves. The duration of elven pregnancy is two years. (Under Celebration of Birth)

[Thorsson]

I've seen no storks in BG, so clearly there can be no pregnancies. I think that closes the subject.

[Rasael]

Pregnancy isn't a PG-13 issue. If it were no would would be allowed to have brothers or sisters unless there's a 13 year age difference.

[7threalm]

player charaters have to be 18 as per game rule,

I just don't wanna see rp im pregenant then a little half-ling logs in and says mommy, lets not have it come to that and if dm's are supporting (in-game children)then shame on you...

the best story you got is you send them off to boarding school/somewhere else for the next 18 years....

[Broham2]

It may not be a PG-13 issue if we arent talking about or describing how it happens, but is it really necessary??

When we are told that staff says a desire to "not create a Sims-like Permanent World, or the ease in which such PCs would be victims of a range of PvP beat-downs and metagaming." are issues to avoid creating civilian/NPC classes, it seems like making babies an actual RP prop open those doors, much much wider?

And with babies comes the inevitable interaction between violence and that child, which clearly, clearly, goes over the PG-13 rating.