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11-15-2004, 03:03 AM
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| | | Gestation period for races
So how long do pregnacies last for elves? gnomes? halfings? half-orcs and the like? Not the ol' 9 months like humans I wager. What do you guys think? 
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11-15-2004, 05:47 AM
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I'd say it takes longer for elves. They do everything sloooooow. Perhaps a year.
Dwarves are small but heavy so they fall out sooner. I'd 9 months, just like humans.
Gnomes and halfings are small and light, half a year.
Half-orcs are partially human. I'd say it depends on if the mother is human (most of the times) or if she's orc. If she's human, then it's 9 months. A orc, then it's 10 to 11 months.
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11-15-2004, 06:26 AM
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| | | My girlfriend, who I proclaim to be an expert on drow sais since they're more fertile than most elves have a pregnancy of about 8 months. While normal elves it's about 11 months.
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11-15-2004, 06:55 AM
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| | | Could be, I'm just guessing.
I do recal it somewhere being mentioned but I have no idea where...
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11-15-2004, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Rob-hin Original.
I'd say it takes longer for elves. They do everything sloooooow. Perhaps a year.
Dwarves are small but heavy so they fall out sooner. I'd 9 months, just like humans.
Gnomes and halfings are small and light, half a year.
Half-orcs are partially human. I'd say it depends on if the mother is human (most of the times) or if she's orc. If she's human, then it's 9 months. A orc, then it's 10 to 11 months. | Dwarves I actually see taking a while to develop, possibly up to 10 months. Besides, they've got a good amount of mass to develop in those small frames, after all. 
Elves I could definitely agree. 12 months, possibly even up to 14. It could be 11 months, as Adahn posted.
I'd say that you sound about right for gnomes and halflings, though. Still, you might think that the 'cooldown period' (as we could call it) between births must be a bit longer than for humans, because otherwise they might breed like rabbits! 
I honestly don't know what to say about Half-Orcs. Orcs are quick to live and die, so for all you know, they might be one to take as long to breed as the gestation periods you theorized with Gnomes and Halflings. An orc usually only lives up to 50 or 60 years at maximum, so breeding may have to be fast as well.
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11-15-2004, 07:43 AM
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| | | The answer could lie in some of the old D&D books, like The Complete Book of Elves...but I haven't got it here right now. I could look it up one time or another though.
But my guess is that Rob-hin is about right with his numbers.
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11-15-2004, 08:05 AM
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11-15-2004, 08:49 AM
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TABLE 1: Pregnancy
Total Length Duration of
Race of Pregnancy Each Stage
Elf 24 months 2 months 20 days
Gnome 16 months 1 months 24 days
Dwarf 15 months 1 months 20 days
Halfling 7 months 0 months 24 days
Human 9 months 1 month 0 days
Half-Elf 12 months 1 months 10 days
| It's all there.
It's a pretty funny read too.
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11-15-2004, 10:48 AM
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| | | Guess we were alittle off on the pregnancies hehe
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11-15-2004, 11:02 AM
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| | I'd say not, jopperm2 just posted the whole document about it and I posted the section about pregnancies from it.
Seems to me like we were right on topic. 
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Originally Posted by Rob-hin I'd say not, jopperm2 just posted the whole document about it and I posted the section about pregnancies from it.
Seems to me like we were right on topic. |
You misunderstood ^^ not the topic, i mean our numbers
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11-15-2004, 11:56 AM
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| | | Huh? No Orc & Half-Orc gestation statistics? I suppose that is because both weren't considered races back in AD&D/2nd Edition. Full-blooded Orcs were starting to be considered as an actual race around the end of plain 3rd Edition and the beginning of 3.5, particularly for the Forgotten Realms, as were Goblinoids. |
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| | | That's primarily the reason I posted it.. I knew the numbers were quite a bit shorter than what what is in there.. And considering he bases it on the Book of Elves I find it to be at least somewhat valid.. The rest of the document is somewhat sophomoric and I apologize to anyone who may be offended in advance.. I assure you I had nothing to do with the content.. Likewise I do think it has some creative ideas for DMs that want to cut back on player philandering. |
11-15-2004, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Galuf the Dwarf Huh? No Orc & Half-Orc gestation statistics? I suppose that is because both weren't considered races back in AD&D/2nd Edition. Full-blooded Orcs were starting to be considered as an actual race around the end of plain 3rd Edition and the beginning of 3.5, particularly for the Forgotten Realms, as were Goblinoids. | Yeah, I'm sure that's pretty much it.. If you know the lifespans you can calculate it though using his methods.. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Rate This Thread |  Linear Mode | | 
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