Ummm... My games are perhaps a touch less traditional in this manner than many. Just a smidgen...

Quote from: 5 Stone Games;866364I 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.

The concept of Guy Ritchie running a D&D game is mind-altering in itself.

JG

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;866035Do your player characters have offspring? This has come up once or twice in my campaigns and I'm curious if and how other GM's handle this sort of thing.

Yes.

 It happened in my GURPS Traveller campaign that I ran 2004 to summer of 2008. We actually played it in game - the fictional 8 to 9 months of the pregnancy. The character gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl whilst adversaries were attacking their Empress Marava class Far Trader on the ground. The crew of the Maggie Thatcher had set sort of a trap for a recurring nemesis that they had - it just happened that the character went into labor at the same time as 2 or 3 climactic fight scenes.
(Yeah, I paced events like an ongoing action TV show)


- Ed C.

Quote from: James Gillen;866471The concept of Guy Ritchie running a D&D game is mind-altering in itself.

JG

Heh. Its an in game store, drop in game designed so anybody can come and go and its built around just making a quick buck.


 The core idea of the game is "you bring your troubles on yourself" As for the kind of fail train you see in GR's movies, I just roll a D20 higher is better for the PC's whenever I'm not sure about something or the rules don't cover it. The vagaries and swing of the   die combined with the players captures the feel.

Given the players are basically Fantasy Heisenberg , Viking Stacy Keach playing Joe Pesci's character from Casino, The Cool Collected professional and a professional Strangler who works for the  noble families along with a motley crew of occasional mutts, a Nordic barbarian hunter used as muscle, Fantasy Lara Croft and others its going to have a lot of troubles.

The  fireball  incident for example along with the capture (well probable capture) of one of the PC's  is entirely agro caused ironically by a legal  job they did and by the person they didn't know very well

Of course it helps  that I've run this kind of game before, its my go to game when some or all of the group can't make it some of the time.

I played a Slayer in a Buffy RPG campaign who ended up getting pregnant in season three. We had one season of pregnancy and one season of baby-minding.

It fit well with the dramatic tone, I thought, and there were a lot of subplots around it.

EDITED TO ADD: That's the only example I can think of, though. Pregnancy has come up in some other games, but I can't recall another time a PC had a baby born in-game.

A large part of the plot of one of my groups has derived from the following sequence:

Mighty wizard, enjoying getting away from it all on her infrequent downtime, hangs out incognito with the local gypsy kumpania.

Elven prince (and one of the world's great swordmakers), really wanting to get away from it all, hangs out with the same bunch of gypsies.

Wizard thinks that elf is very cute, and goes to significant lengths -- as elves go, he's considered remote and standoffish -- to get him into the sack.  Baby results.

Wizard finds out that elf is a prince, somewhat to her consternation, and that there are political enemies that would love to get their hands on the baby.

Wizard also finds out that a fundamental law of the elven empire is that all children of the imperial family must be escorted by no fewer than two Imperial Guardsmen, at all times.

Hilarity ensues, and that's eleven game-years ago now ...

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

The Surgeon General would be right in this case as this turned out very badly with the Crocodile God harrying us for the rest of the campaign.

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

"Side effects of alcohol abuse may include pregnancy."

Quote from: James Gillen;866778"Side effects of alcohol abuse may include pregnancy."

Well that may have lead to the two pregnancies in this case due to carousing rules in 50 Fathoms...

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

Tell that to my poor Elven Wizard who got eaten by a pack of Velciraptors just a week or so after learning she was pregnant.

Our Wednesday night group has a Fighter who owns a tavern and runs it a bit like the Playboy mansion.
Meanwhile the group's Cleric was tasked with building an orphanage.
The children are mostly offstage but the groundwork is established for all sorts of complications and plot hooks.
My own PC is moving into 'crazy cat lady' territory with all his pets and wards, but no children.

Quote from: Trond;866052Should be pretty common in Pendragon campaigns, although I have (sadly) never played it myself.

A long term Pendragon campaign is hugely involved with PCs desperately trying to produce enough potential heirs to have at least one male survive to adulthood.

It's not uncommon to role-play our characters' kids in "generational" style campaigns. About half the PCs in Shadows Angelus 2: Ten Years After were children of the PCs from the original Shadows Angelus campaign.

Hell, my first character in that milieu has grandkids now. Don't know if I'll ever get around to playing any of them in a future campaign....

Quote from: Bren;866322Lack of players might be a bit of a problem...

Come on, Bren, when the GM wants to run game X, how many groups are prepared to say "no"?

Quote from: AsenRG;867263Come on, Bren, when the GM wants to run game X, how many groups are prepared to say "no"?

You got me. It took me a while to realize you were joking. Fortunately I reread your post before I posted my first reply.