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- Hygiene. - Love/ Care. - Magical Aging/ Age Reversal. - Mind-Effecting Spells and Psionics, Empathy. - Negative Energy
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- Heat
Extensive heat to the body of the mother may cause an abortion.
Heat damage is treated as described under “Damage to the Mother”.
- Hygiene
As is apparent, hygiene will prevent some diseases, that may harm the child. For humanoids coming from very civilized cultures, this would mean, that the chance to get ill will increase while adventuring.
- Love/ Care
Mothers, who very much care for their children are rewarded with brighter children. These children may re-roll one die when rolling for intelligence, wisdom and charisma.
It is said, that women, who are very happy about being pregnant, will get a bigger belly, than mothers that do not.
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- Magical Aging/ Age Reversal
Depending on the way, a person is magically aged, this will effect the child differently. Aging caused by a drain of life-energy would mean, that the child is protected by the mother, who will first die, before the child is effected. This kind of aging may have a side affect, because the nourishment is changed and may become bad. If the aging is an effect of some time-magic, the woman may find herself giving birth realy fast. Depending on the speed of the spell, mother and child may starve, because the nourishment is insufficient.
- Mind-Effecting Spells and Psionics, Empathy
Doing things to the mind of a child may cause weird things to the child. Normally, the brain of the child will not be fully evolved. Reading the thoughts or using empathy on the child's brain will not harm the child, because it is a passive use of magic on the mind.
Casting a charm spell may harm the evolution of the brain causing it to stagnate. The spell may even become permanent. Using a compulsion spell may even be deadly, because the child may not be able to follow this compulsion.
A child will have a modification of -10 to any mind-affecting spell, because it's mind is very much open.
- Negative Energy
If the mother is energy-drained, the child might be slain. Normally the mothers body will protect the child and the energy drained will come from the mother. If she receives more negative levels than she got levels her own, the level, that would normally slay her, will be given over to the child. The child receives an immediate saving throw with the modifications of her mother. If the child succeeds the negative level dissipates and both, child and mother are save (this time). If the child does not succeed, it will die. In this case, the mother must succeed at a last save to save the child from becoming a wraith. If she fails, she got 24 hours to find a cleric, who prevents the child from becoming a wraith.
- Planar Travel
According to the official planar topology a planar travel in itself will normally have no effect on either mother or child (except, when the travel is done by using a method, that changes the body (look at shapechange)). Most often, the effect will occure, when a mother reaches the other plane, because of different gravity, different types of energy and magic.
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- Poisons
Normally, poison will effect the child, as it effects the mother. The effect should be halfed on the child, because it's ability scores are probably much lower. The child will succeed it's save automatically, when the mother succeeds at her save. The child still gets her own save. In some instances, the game master may allow a child to build a poison resistance.
- Positive Energy
As stated in the some source books, positive energy will cause a creature to heal, even gaining the fast healing ability as long as it is treated with positive energy. But if the energy exceeds double the normal hit-points, the character will explode. A mother will share this exceess energy with her child, absorbing all environmental effects to protect her child, first. If the child got some deficiencies, these may be healed by the positive energy, absorbing some of the damage
- Shapechange: Forced
Some shapechanges are not natural. They are either caused by spell magic or curses (lycanthropes).
Because the spell effects only one person at a time, it strongly depends on, if the child is a person already, if it is changed with the mother.
- Shapechange: Natural
Natural shapechangers do no harm to their child when shapechanging. There may be differences between these shapechangers, because the child may or may not change shape when the mother does. Most natural shapechanger will be able to hide signs of pregnancy while in a changed form. If the shapechanger keeps any sign of his old form, though (like some Gods keeping their eyes) they will keep the signs of pregnancy, too, or will show signs of pregnancy of the race they turned into.
- Undeath
If the mother is slain through negetive levels, and the child does not die first, or if the woman is slain and raised as an undead, it strongly depends on the type of undead, if the child will survive or simply die.
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