Talk:Demihuman Gestation Periods

Halfling Offspring Table

1-4: Twins!

5: Only Child

6: +1 Child and Reroll on Table 2

Table 2

1-3: +1 Child and stop rolling.

4-5: +1 Child and Roll Again.

6: +2 Children and Stop Rolling.

Math (note that above table doesn't consider miscarriage):

 0: 0.0
 1: 16.6666666666667
 2: 75.0
 3: 5.55555555555556
 4: 1.85185185185185
 5: 0.617283950617284
 6: 0.205761316872428
 7: 0.0685871056241426
 8: 0.022862368541381
 9: 0.00762078951379357
10: 0.00127013158563227
 n: (n - 1)/6 for n > 3

I want it to be noted that those gestation periods are pretty absurd. Elves and Dwarves aren't any larger than humans, and if cell division were actually that slow for those species, the individuals in them would never heal from a wound before they died from it. I mean, obviously magic can explain it all away, but if there's no good reason for it, why complicate? -Slitherrr

[1] -Slitherrr

Dwarves are dense and have more cells. Elves actually do heal slower because they have a lower constitution. Also, why are there not 11 million dwarves if they live to be 400 and pop out one per year like humans?

1) Dwarves would have to weigh correspondingly more. Like, four times as much as a human. Do infant Dwarves weigh 40-50 lbs? 2) Five times as slow? Two points of Con is more like, 4/5ths as slow. That is an enormous difference. And it does nothing to explain Dwarves, who heal 20% faster (on average). 3) Implantation/estrous/fertilization happen less often, social pressures keep populations in line, etc etc. Gestation periods, though, just don't correspond to lifespans. If they did, horses would live to be like 150 years old at the max and 100 years on average. -Slitherrr