Was that a waddling fetus?

[zeia]

I have been thinking about this for a while now, thought I would put it out to you guys and see what your views were on it!
Has anyone noticed that there are -so- many female characters getting pregnant?  I have seen several that have given birth to what would be fetus's and saying they are 'happy and healthy bundles of joy' after literally a week or two IRL time playing pregnant.  In the real world you wouldn't be able to go, ok, bored of getting pregnant now out you come, and your child is suddenly perfect?  No it would be -dead- giving birth at 3 or 4 months gone isn't a birth, it's a miscarriage, or on the very slim chance that you might be further along than expected and you have a veryyyyyyyyy teenie tiny baby that would need ALOT of medical attention.  Either way, in Zalanthas, the child would die anyways.  So why does everyone else surrounding these characters in question go along with it?
Alot of pregnant characters I have seen, end up getting bored of playing them or once there is a child in the game they end up getting shipped off to family so you don't have to play with them?  Why create a pregnancy in your character if this is the case?  It's suppose to be a hard life in Zalanthas and with the amount of babies people have played popping out in the last year or two we've made a new world population! 
My main reason for posting this though is to ask what others thoughts are on perhaps making it so people who play pregnancies have echos input to their characters?  Morning sickness, tiredness, to make a pregnancy more realistic?  Giving life threatening conditions to the character if they ignore the pregnancy short of being 'fat and waddling' as I've seen a heavily pregnant female character run from one side of a city to another! How would this happen?!
Also with the actual child birth, how many people would actually survive?  Given the harsh conditions that people in Zalathanas would be living in, it would be completely unsanitary to be giving birth and have opens wounds etc, so would the risk of bleeding out come in to play?  Would people that have literally just given birth be back to sparring, fighting, hunting the next day? No!
Baring in mind these are just my thoughts/ideas.  What does everyone else think?

[Patuk]

My usual site for this stuff is down. I am not amused.

[hyzhenhok]

Pretty sure preggers RP is supposed to be realistic. If you see someone who you feel is not playing it realistically, Request Tool -> Player Complaint.

[Barzalene]

There is/was a pregnancy doc. Hmm.

[Barzalene]

It does the math.
http://old.armageddon.org/general/pregnancy.html

[ShaLeah]

Don't get me started. 
I roll for then micromanage my character's  pregnancies down to the possibility of miscarriage due to trauma, multiples, gender,   magickal affinity and everything in between. I portray  hormonal ups and downs, cravings,  tiredness,   absentmindness and  everything else. It's time consuming and draining.  When they get here, my bitch nurses, most of the day.
It's draining.
If a year is six weeks your character better be pregnant for at least 4 and a half weeks if you're human. 

We need a pregnancy document.

[Harmless]

3 months on Zalanthas was a year I thought?

[i can haz mantis]

3 months on Zalanthas was a year I thought?

Right. That equals 6 weeks RL time. If you base a PC human pregnancy term on a RL human pregnancy term it is about 4.5 RL weeks.

[Molten Heart]

I blame the walking penis.

[Fredd]

I haven't seen these super quick pregnancies. But the doc's says 5 RL weeks. That being said, if womens wanna be fat and cranky, let them. Doesn't make me plot there death any less. Just means I have to pay the assassin extra...Sometimes.

[Malken]

I once "spied" on a couple who were talking about just "getting rid" of the child within the woman's womb (from another man) with some herbs so that they could then try to have a child of their own right after. I sent that log to the Staff and I'm pretty sure it ended terribly for that woman. When you see something ridiculous being done with pregnancy, just send it to the Staff and they'll deal with it, if the player won't.

[Fredd]

I once "spied" on a couple who were talking about just "getting rid" of the child within the woman's womb (from another man) with some herbs so that they could then try to have a child of their own right after. I sent that log to the Staff and I'm pretty sure it ended terribly for that woman. When you see something ridiculous being done with pregnancy, just send it to the Staff and they'll deal with it, if the player won't.

I've forced a woman to eat mix when she told me she was pregnant with my child Of course she would have just been starting the pregnancy. I told her it was that, or I'm throwing her down stairs repeatedly, and the mix was probably safer.

lol.

[ShaLeah]

I once "spied" on a couple who were talking about just "getting rid" of the child within the woman's womb (from another man) with some herbs so that they could then try to have a child of their own right after. I sent that log to the Staff and I'm pretty sure it ended terribly for that woman. When you see something ridiculous being done with pregnancy, just send it to the Staff and they'll deal with it, if the player won't.

I've forced a woman to eat mix when she told me she was pregnant with my child Of course she would have just been starting the pregnancy. I told her it was that, or I'm throwing her down stairs repeatedly, and the mix was probably safer.

lol.

come back from 7yr hiatus got knocked up by someone who she shouldn't have.  She was older too.  He wanted her to keep it and she couldn't say no to him. His family kicked her out on her ass and she ended up eating a massive amount of mulmix and aborting.

She then ended up in her dream job for the guild face.  Couldn't have done that shit with a whelp.

[Morrolan]

I once "spied" on a couple who were talking about just "getting rid" of the child within the woman's womb (from another man) with some herbs so that they could then try to have a child of their own right after. I sent that log to the Staff and I'm pretty sure it ended terribly for that woman. When you see something ridiculous being done with pregnancy, just send it to the Staff and they'll deal with it, if the player won't.

I've forced a woman to eat mix when she told me she was pregnant with my child Of course she would have just been starting the pregnancy. I told her it was that, or I'm throwing her down stairs repeatedly, and the mix was probably safer.

lol.

Actually not funny.


Back on topic-ish, we totally shoiuld have a preggers code.

Human:
Gain +1 tenstone per trimester.
Random sickness
Injuries can cause loss of the child.
Childbirth can kill. Some herbs can help. Water witches might be able to help. Etc. Etc.

[Fredd]

Removed because on second thought. I don't care.

[Potaje]

Funny thing is you all should read about mul mix before thinking it could do something it doesn't.

Pretty sure it says that you have to take it before sex.

[hatchets]

Funny thing is you all should read about mul mix before thinking it could do something it doesn't.

Pretty sure it says that you have to take it before sex.

+1 for reading item descriptions!

[Riya OniSenshi]

They can't be bothered with something so obvious, of course.

[RogueGunslinger]

Yeah, the real day-after pill is blood-burn.

[Iiyola]

Yeah, the real day-after pill is blood-burn.

Or Terradin. Or a combination. Just... yeah.. find out IC.

[Vwest]

I really expected this to be about something else.

[ShaLeah]

Funny thing is you all should read about mul mix before thinking it could do something it doesn't.

Pretty sure it says that you have to take it before sex.

They can't be bothered with something so obvious, of course.

To prevent pregnancies, yes. Old wives tales claim overdosing on it aborts. I rolled with it. Better than going to some filthy witch!

[Fredd]

Yeah, the real day-after pill is blood-burn.

using it next time. LOL.

[MeTekillot]

hahaha, abortions, miscarriages, infancide, lol

[Morrolan]

hahaha, abortions, miscarriages, infancide, lol

First-world people laughing about Third-world problems.