Characters who wish to start families may run into the issue of what to do when danger approaches or have concerns about their livelihood during the months of time you are pregnant. For the sake of not ruining someone's roleplay in general we leave the decision to take part in an event or not up to each individual player.

If your character would be cautious and avoid danger for their baby's sake, that's great roleplay. If you choose to join combat knowing you are pregnant no DM will force a miscarriage on your character. In other words you will not be forced to roleplay the death of your child or a miscarriage by a DM. Any player who chooses to do this roleplay does it at their own choice and will do so in an appropriate manner that is not insensitive or inconsiderate to those on the server who may wish to avoid such roleplay aka don't shove it down their throats or make a big show about it. We also want to state you can not blame the DM (if you went to an event prior to this decision as again no DM will force this upon you and it is your choice alone.)

Roleplaying live births on the server should not be happening. There are just some things that can be awkward for many people. Keep it appropriate please.

We ask anyone even thinking of doing any of this roleplay to be aware of those who play on this server and may have had to endure a similar situation IRL and ask that you Fade 2 Black for the roleplay and avoid anything graphic.

Quick Aging is a perk for any characters or NPCs under the age of adventuring for their specific race (ex: Humans are 16 years old). By doing this you can quickly age until you hit the adventuring age or stop at any age beforehand at your choosing. Each age group has different “requirements” to age. This could be going to a friend's birthday party or get blessed by a priest. Completing these tasks in Roleplay will grant your npc/pc child an additional year more quickly. We call these quests: “Milestones” to earn a full year you must complete two milestone requirements. This is self monitored but you should keep screenshots of your participation in-case anyone asks.

• Every year earned will create a 48 hour cooldown before a quest or another year can be earned. You do require a 24 hour cooldown in between your next milestone quest.  For example: Day 1(Quest Y1) -> Day 2 (cooldown) -> Day 3 (Quest Y1) & Age Up -> Day 4 & 5 (cooldown) -> Day 6 (Quest Y2) -> etc. You may only complete the quests within your “age group” ; quests from previous or future age groups do not count.

These quests should ADD to roleplay not be some quick way to age up without giving some quality roleplay back. If you are hosting a birthday party, actually host one, don't just say you did.

What to do & how to play as your child character once they hit adventuring age:

• People want to roleplay their children eventually but we have the rule for not allowing your characters to interact. Children characters are a weird case because you know they exist. Ideally you would find a dedicated player to take on the role of your child and have a grand old time roleplaying. But if you are determined to play your kid character then follow the below rules:

• After playing as your NPC-child character through their growth (ages 8-adventuring age) you would need to choose which character you play, and store/snap or graduate (if the requirement is met) the other. 

• As these characters live alongside each other ( but not at the same time) you cannot give them gifts such as items and money as it will be carried through the 4th point (Trinkets that do not give your character a mechanical advantage over others are allowed to be gifted). 

• As the world of Aldspace grows, relations between these new regions and those currently lived in will need to be created. By sending envoys (stored character). Which would allow your stored character to still live within the world, but just be a little too far to interact physically with the children characters once they reach adulthood.

• Interaction between these characters could be made via help paying their rent or a final gift from their parents as a 'congratulations' for becoming an adventurer (the value of the gift should not go above 500 gold pieces per parent and can only be 1 physical item not multiple that add up to that total.).

• If the character that was stored is being brought back. the other will be stored in their place so as to not have two accounts of one player meet.

Some kind of Ceremony to celebrate their aging. Aka a Birthday party. This should be done after each milestone years are achieved to solidify the herald’s magic that is assisting in aging the child.  Milestone years: Age 4, Age 7, Age 12, Age 16.

Races that age quicker than Humans will still gain 1 year per two tasks. Races that age slower than Humans will gain multiple years per two tasks. For example: Elf | 88 years to reach adventuring age divided by 16 = 5.5 years per 2 tasks.