Family Planning

MARRIAGE
Marriage in the Song of Ice and Fire Universe was almost never based on love. Marriages were usually pre-prepared and sometimes happened before the bride and groom ever met. If children married for love, this would be the grounds for disinheritence (Tyrion/Tysha)

Girls were considered to be of age to marry after their first blood (flowering/menstruation) which tended to occur between the ages of 12-16. Although betrothals tended to take place when the girl was still a child.

PREGNANCY AND BIRTH ROLLS
When a woman within a marriage were both husband and wife have shared an active sexual life (no IC mention that either of them rejects the other) you are allowed to roll your first baby to be born at least 10 months after the wedding takes place, there has to be at least a 1 year difference between subsequent children.

Rolling babies is quite easy, you need to do the following rolls:

When rolling to see if your wife (Or significant other) is pregnant you would roll a 1d100

1-57 She is not pregnant

58-100 She is

The reason the rates are so low is because in real life their is a 20% chance of getting pregnant without protection. If you and your significant other are constantly having sex. (5 times a month) Then you’d roll however many times your having sex. (Ex 5d100)

When rolling birthing rolls you must roll a 1d1000.

1-150 Miscarriage

151-190 Child is born with birth defects

190-200 Child survives mother dies

201-210, Mother dies child survives.

211-955 Single child, mother is fine

966-1000 Twins.

Gender: 1d100 1-50 male 51-100 female

If roll result is between 1-10 for male or 51-60 you child is blessed with a Good Trait but if it is from 46-50 or 96-100 he will have a Bad one; this numbers change to 1-5/51-60 or 41-50/91-100 if the woman is +40 and to 0/0 and 31-50/81-100 if the woman is +50

Here is a small list of Possitive and Negative Traits for babies which you can use. You can either roll or select one of this:

Good Traits

Strong

Genius

Attractive

Athletic

Tall

Quick Minded

Agile

Bad Trait

Weak

Mentally Disabled

Ugly

Obese

Dwarf

Dimwitted

Blind

Deaf

Mute

Crippled

Missing Limb

When it comes to physical characteristics you can use this online generator if you wish.

CONTRACEPTIVES AND ABORTION
Historically, herbs or concoctions that were considered contraceptives were also potential abortifacients. This includes pennyroyal, belladonna, pomegranates, junipers and rue. Often times a lot of different things were thrown into a potion together and the woman drank it. I was only able to find real information on pennyroyal tea, so I made mechanics for it. Pennyroyal is highly poisonous and often resulted in complications for the mother.

There's the pop culture idea that "gin and a hot bath" is the cure for a girl in trouble. This was not very effective. Sometimes embryotomy occurred: basically just removing the fetus from the mother. It was gruesome and usually only happened if there were complications in the pregnancy that endangered the mother. Caesarean sections were only used to save the baby and sacrifice the mother.

Contraceptives & Abortives:

All of them work with a 1d100 roll

Pennyroyal

1-10 Succesful Abortion

11-20 Succesful, mother becomes unable to bear children

21-40 Unsuccesful, Child is born with a physical deffect which must be rolled

41-100 Unsuccesful

Moon Tea

1-25 Succesful Abortion

26-50 Succesful, mother becomes unable to bear children

51-75 Unsuccesful, Child is born with a physical deffect which must be rolled

76-100 Unsuccesful

Fetotomy

Abortion is always succesful but there are huge risks for the mother.

1-30 Mother dies

31-60 Mother is not able to have children

61-100 Mother is fine

BASTARDS
Sometimes men get around and end up having a kid out of wedlock who is then called a bastard. When rolling for a bastard you use a 1d20. This is based off of real life out of wedlock statistics because their really is no chance of having a kid or not

(With Contraceptives)

1-2: You have a bastard

3-10: You dodged a bullet

(Without Contraceptives)

1-57 You dodged a bullet

58-100 She is pregnant.