Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-89.150.171.32-20130418215342/@comment-69.208.25.194-20140115153940

On the topic of children,that  being the most reliable result of sex, I rather like the decision Bethesda made to allow adoption over having your "own" children. Not that there's anything wrong with pregnancy, but because I completed all of the main quest lines and most of the additional lines (Solstheim, the Dark Brotherhood, College of Winterhold, and the Companions to be specific) in less than 2 years of "in game" time. Which menas that if a person was playing a female Dragonborn, who as a dragon slayer can be assumed to be in excellent health, even if she took the entire pregnancy off from adventuring(unlikely, but possible)  the baby still would be in the cradle, or possibly just beginning to toddle about by the time all possible quests and errands are complete. Not many people would keep playing when the adventures are through just to see a pixelated child grow up- people who want that immersive of an experience in child rearing usually have kids of their own. Whereas there -is- a war raging across Skyrim at the present, people -are- being killed by returning dragons, and someone needs to take care of the children that are orphaned.