Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-207.61.101.254-20160421133006/@comment-842519-20170101070748

The Beautiful Princess Ashley wrote: i wouldn't like this. i don't want my character to be pregnant for 9 months. it would also make gay marriage weird. Why would it make gay marriage weird? To me, this would just be like the *many* gay couples that exist in our world that get a donor so that they can have a child. Sooooo many lesbian couples get a donor so that one of them can give birth to a child that both of them will be the parents of. There are also many male gay couples that get a surrogate. Go to a tavern, fill a cup, pay gold to a  woman that you want to make your baby, give cup to woman, come back when baby is born, give baby to spouse to raise in your house while you continue to go adventuring (because let's face it, Bethesda are unlikely to code a game that has "Being a Stay at Home Mum/Dad" Quests. If anything, this would be easier to code than representing baby making through Dibellan Arts™ and/or "debauchery that would make sanguine proud".

Personally, I have no issues with the idea that my female characters would need to spend time with a bun in the oven, especially if it didn't hamper her ability to kick arse. This is a fantasy setting after all, and our character is always a super-special snowflake so they should be able to continue to kick arse while pregnant, especially when there are real-world examples of women fighting in battle as soldiers while pregnant completely unhampered until the moment they give birth (like this British soldier that gave birth while she was fighting in Afghanistan in 2012 ). I kinda like the idea that female characters can have the choice of, "maybe I should stay at home/in an Inn for the next few days until the kid drops" or "I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing, and if I happen to be next to a Giant's Camp when my kid decides to drop, then that's a risk I'm willing to make".

It would be even cooler if "circumstances under which a child is born" had an effect on the temperament of kid - born during a battle, born in a stable, born at home, born in a field, born during a snow storm, born in a Necromancer's den, etc...