Quote from: 3rik;866234Some cases make me wonder if it's really a decision rather than a conformist Pavlov reflex, but you're probably right. Still, in my experience players don't seem very interested in including it in RPGs, maybe because the game is a way for them to get away from their real-life offspring for a couple of hours.

You could be right, but my 8 year old son is very much interested in his PC's offspring, and was delighted recently to learn he was going to be a grandfather. I've seen similar with other players, very interested in propagating their PC's lineage.

Multiple times, but I've never seen a pregnant PC. And given the compressed nature of time in most games I've played in or ran, most PC's never have to deal with the trials of parenthood.

I did have one PC become a father in a more time-extended campaign, but he wound up essentially retiring in order to enjoy family life. That wasn't the plan, its just how things worked out.

Quote from: nDervish;866222Interesting.  The world turning at its own pace is, in my experience, the main thing that tends to push for back-to-back-to-back adventures.  "We need to form an alliance with the wizard living to the northwest ASAP, but the orcs to the west are fortifying and we don't want to let them get any further with that than we have to.  Plus the trolls to the south might attack again at any time, so it would be good to launch a pre-emptive strike before that happens..." tends to make extended voluntary downtime seem unwise.

In campaigns with nonstop wars, in which the PCs are heavily engaged, sure.  I expect so.

As in real life, the nations of my gameworld are not each one of them at war all the time, nor are the PCs necessarily heavily invested in their political fortunes.

Quote from: AsenRG;866107Makes sense for any long-term game where the PCs aren't playing Imperial Eunuchs in an ancient empire, you mean;).

true i wasnt trying to say it didnt apply to other games just with pendragons focus that it made sense it would have rules for such

I haven't really encountered this.  Most of my players have not been interested in portraying this sort of thing in a game or portraying their characters as having romantic lives at all while the game is going on.  If it happens, it is part of the denouement and is something that happens Harry Potter style after the campaign ends.  This sort of thing is inevitable in certain games like Pendragon but I have never run any of those games.  I own Pendragon and the Pendragon campaign but have never had any players interested in playing it.

Quote from: yosemitemike;866299I haven't really encountered this.  Most of my players have not been interested in portraying this sort of thing in a game or portraying their characters as having romantic lives at all while the game is going on.  If it happens, it is part of the denouement and is something that happens Harry Potter style after the campaign ends.  This sort of thing is inevitable in certain games like Pendragon but I have never run any of those games.  I own Pendragon and the Pendragon campaign but have never had any players interested in playing it.

Whereas currently IMCs two PCs have pregnant wives, and another is about to get married.

Wilderlands
Hakeem the barbarian - married, wife (Malenn the paladin) pregnant
Rey the rogue - harem, no children
Thuruar the cleric - single, no children

Karameikos
Earl William, Wizard - married (to Princess Adriana Karameikos), 4 children
Baron Bravery, Fighter - married, wife (Aleena the Cleric!) pregnant
Roseanne the Cleric - courting Squire Quintus Vorloi
Other PCs single, no children

Forgotten Realms
Baron-Warden Lirael the ranger - married, no children
Dunstan the dwarf warlord - engaged, about to marry Serka, a dwarf warrior
Other PCs single or have girlfriend/partner, no children

Quote from: S'mon;866305Whereas currently IMCs two PCs have pregnant wives, and another is about to get married.

Apparently we GM for different people who are interested in different things.

Quote from: yosemitemike;866306Apparently we GM for different people who are interested in different things.

Guess it's time for you to run Pendragon, then;)?

Quote from: AsenRG;866313Guess it's time for you to run Pendragon, then;)?

Lack of players might be a bit of a problem...

Quote from: yosemitemike;866299I own Pendragon and the Pendragon campaign but have never had any players interested in playing it.

The last time PCs got pregnant, they both died before coming to term in 50 Fathoms. One of them was splashed with dark water from the Sea Hags and had a crocodile baby as she died, which became our nemesis the Crocodile God, eventually becoming monstrous, Godzilla-like in size.

Quote from: slayride35;866324The last time PCs got pregnant, they both died before coming to term in 50 Fathoms. One of them was splashed with dark water from the Sea Hags and had a crocodile baby as she died, which became our nemesis the Crocodile God, eventually becoming monstrous, Godzilla-like in size.

The Surgeon General advises against Adventuring While Pregnant.

Quote from: S'mon;866327The Surgeon General advises against Adventuring While Pregnant.

Oh so very very true. That kicked off a brutally long revenge campaign in the Red Shetland RPG.

No pregnant PC's, I don't have any cross gender characters  and none of my female players have ever wanted to explore that angle. I kind of assume that PC's won't get pregnant from lifestyle issues, and because even in my D&D I have birth control tea (based on Silphnum a real life but extinct herb allegedly i with that property) that is made magically to be  highly prolific.

However pregnancy is playing a part in the current game.  One of my current "rogues" from Pathfinder Epic 6 has a common life wife who says she is pregnant .

Thus far she is only a month in and as I told the player  "She might be lying to get a more formal marriage from you" PC fence gets a shady wife is not news at 11

The player seems to be enjoying the side bit and is playing his character as happy about it. In fact its come about just  about everyone in game  is happy he settling down a bit and growing a bit less nuts

Well at least after after he gets the SOB who fire balled his wife's  eel and pie shop.

I wasn't sure about trying this mind you since this is more D&D with Guy Richie directing it as a TV Show than standard D&D much less Pendragon but its worked out well and with the 'she  might be lying" or she might miscarry or desert him angles in play I have an out if the player's want a more "trad" game.

Seems that at least in the campaigns I have seen. Players tend not to get interested in family untill about the domain level of play. Creating a dynasty. Others use it as a closing element as the character retires.

Not counting the occasional tryst that turns into more.

We tend to have campaigns where the PCs adventuring career is a wild-flurry-of-events that the PCs expect to resolve and eventually settle down from. Perhaps to an equally perilous lifestyle like warlord, but it's perfectly reasonable for them to say, "not at this time in my life." On the other hand, in the real world, many a child is conceived during rather chaotic times in peoples' lives. Who knows what is more realistic.

Anyways, when we do have campaigns that span years and decades, then yes, PCs do end up having families.