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da here, i'm aware that "no in-game pregnancies" is a pretty damn common rule in dwrp games, but i'm assuming anon means the "characters who are already pregnant have it go into stasis" rule is kind of awkward.

if a character's like 7 months pregnant or w/e, it's pretty weird to run around with that big belly! and maybe stressful if a character thinks that there's a potentially dead fetus in there.

although to be fair, how common is it for people to play currently-pregnant characters anyway?

i guarantee this rule won't matter in the end. in 10 years i've yet to encounter anyone playing a character who is canonically pregnant.

here's a few off the top of my head:
lori - walking dead
polaris - the gifted
helena - orphan black
multiple tvd characters
and that's just in a small snippet of la fandom. i'm sure throughout video/anime/manga/books and other la, there's a good hefty handful of pregnant female characters that people play in games. i've seen the 'what if my char is pregnant' question on more than one faq by different characters and players, so this is more of a ymmv type thing.

if it were me i'd just say "don't app characters from canonpoints where they are currently pregnant."

that would be my rule if I were running a game too.

Just wanted to say that as someone that has been looking for a place for a couple pregnant characters, that "your pregnancy is in stasis" is actually my preferred ruling.

There are some characters that are interesting but don't really have points in canon prior to their pregnancy. And the stasis option saves me from having to actually deal with the child in-game, or the misery of an implied miscarriage via "you're magically not pregnant anymore". I will say that obviously taking them early in the pregnancy is vastly preferable just for having them able to interact with game plot and such to a level that approximates other characters.

So personally "seven months pregnant forever" is not what I tend to envision.

to be fair, most dwrpers would use common sense.

but there's always those select few who would relish that "i'm seven months pregnant forever" angst.

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