All right, so in just about any given roleplaying game adventure, player characters go out there and kill a whole lot of things. But have you ever seen the opposite? Have you witnessed, in an RPG, the miracle of new life being brought to the world?
I just participated in a semi-detailed roleplay session involving childbirth. Two of the PCs were parents. It went something like this: >At breakfast table in the inn that morning >DM: Suddenly, you feel yourself going to labor >Mother: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Father: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Mother: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Father: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Repeat a couple times >Cleric: Quit being a bitch and just push it out, it doesn't hurt that bad >Mother still screaming >Father hyperventilating >Then it's over, there's a screeching infant there in front of them >Gradually, they calm down >Cleric prepares some tools so that she could tell the newborn's fortune >Then suddenly... >DM: You can feel another one coming out >Silence >We'd been talking about -a- child coming to the world for a while now, but no one ever brought up the possibility of a -plural- >A bit more silence >Then >Mother: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Father: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Mother: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Father: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Mother: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA >Father: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Character went into labor, we rolled some Heal checks with mounting DCs for every failed, and at the end of it all the PC gave birth to twins.
Jayden Bennett
I'm in the midst of a time-travel campaign where one of the time periods regularly accessed is at a point where one of the future PC's is still in their mother's womb, decently along.
I'm considering the notion of what it'd be like to have the party witness one of their members' birth / potentially assisting in it or if that'd be too graphic ('fade to black' territory) and would be better left out, particularly since I tend to muddle the pace with too much side shit as it is.
Elijah Ward
Yeah they saw the birth of an Eldritch Abomination God, total party kill afterwards.
They shouldn't have let the BEGG complete his objectives, so they deserved it.
Kevin Thompson
The Big Evil Good Guy?
Brayden Adams
>join group irl >first session >one of the characters is pregnant >the character is male >never return
John Rivera
>>one of the characters is pregnant >>the character is male Why the fuck is it so difficult to avoid the malepreg spergathon?
Aaron Lee
>Play an old RPG >most characters have certain astrological signs, are stronger and weaker at certain times of year/month. >A very few, however, are life or death aligned. Death aligned people are stronger if near someone who recently died, life are stronger near someone who was recently born. >The former is much better for the average adventurer, but once had a game with a life-aligned character, a fairly powerful Runic mage >Went ahead and opened up a brothel, and timed some of his more expensive/important rituals as to when his hookers were giving birth to bastards.
Parker Green
>opening a brothel At first glance it would look like a nice idea but actually its a really inneficcient way to do it You need to take care of the expenses of several hookers and their health wich is costly and takes alot of macromanagment
You can get the same result by getting just one hooker to get in to labor and putting the baby back in to pull it out again everytime you need to do the deed
Blake Moore
>You need to take care of the expenses of several hookers and their health wich is costly Surely the brothel is supposed to make a profit.
I mean, that's kind of the point of prostitution.
Benjamin Edwards
Depends when exactly life begins in the whole conception–birth process. Death is a lot less ambiguous in most cases.
Caleb Wright
>You can get the same result by getting just one hooker to get in to labor and putting the baby back in to pull it out again everytime you need to do the deed
Vaginas do not work that way!
Eli Ortiz
That doesn't sound like a magical realm at all.
Charles Cook
I haven't seen it happen with a PC, but a NPC gave birth while traveling with us. Fortunately we had prepared and found an actual real doctor in town (actually a cleric but don't worry about it) who helped. The DM just described the screams instead of actually screaming.
The NPC was the bard's mom. by the end of the game my character had settled down with her. Pic related it's my Ranger
Ethan Collins
My girlfriend's character rolled a 1 on a resist seduction by an incubis when she was trapped away from the group. She lived through it after she finally snapped out but it was heavily implied she went the whole way with it. After the session she asked me if her character should be pregnant with a demon now. We have since run with that as she slows the group down with horrible morning sickness and disadvantaged rolls.
I was talking more about the childbirth farm rather than the general idea of a 'life aspect'.
Jack Anderson
Oh, that part? I don't think so. Andrew didn't dwell on the details the way I assume someone fapping under the table would have. I'm reasonably sure he was just munchkining.
Nathaniel Edwards
how to make profit with pregnant prostituts, I know some guys are into wierd things but you want healthy babies.
William Ward
I think I prefer just screaming through it.
Elijah Morales
>time-travel campaign you brave motherfucker what system are you using? and how have you stopped things getting confusing?
Alexander Thompson
There's a bunch of female PCs and one male PC. They ended up forming a harem with 4 kids. Said kids will probably be PCs for another campaign.
Dylan Thompson
Well for one, most fathers didn't really live that much with the actual birth like these days. You certainly didn't participate in screaming or hyperventilating or whatever the fuck emasculated men these days do.
Josiah Miller
Trolls have babies? I thought they just spun up from some growth in another trolls back or something.
>bodily attractiveness
I bet that triggered women.
Isaac Hernandez
I remember my first black kniggas, they were always born from magical cloning baths, had a very difficult life, conquered unsurmountable odds losing some body part in the process (or multiple), had a brief respite for love with a mystical chick, their children were birthed without pulse or otherwise dead/almost dead due to rolls, magical fuckery made it harder to raise them, mother was kidnapped at her weakest, cue journey to the underworld / other realms to see how many of his family members could be saved.
This wasn't DM's fuckery (at least not all the time), rather, an infortunate string of bad rolls that happened to coincide with those crucial momments. The universe did not want for this guy to have a happy life I always thought.
they saved all of their children/spouses but regularly lost so much of his power/soul/whatever that such thing always marked his retirement. Afterwards some other player would take over the most promising child as their own enhanced PC.
Aiden Thompson
What?
Alexander Ross
That's totally just a munchkin thing. Like the guy who used a bag of rats to get infinite cleave attacks.
I have players in my party who would definitely start a brothel if they thought it would get more money and magical reagents than our other side businesses. All they care about is the ROI.
