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As a goblin, I believe her biology is rough and tumble enough due to her kind's constant predation by low level adventurers and plentiful mutations.
If she was not tough enough, she would quickly end up as a few XP for a level 1 character. The world does not go easy on a goblin just because she is with horrible, horrible child.
In the end, my advice is- don't go into this dark, dark road. You can BS enough of an excuse to write off the details.
But if we must, then, as a joke, I can reference some random set up I read online (forget the source), where goblins must constantly drink and hit their writhing bundles of joy with rolling pins to make sure they do not claw their way out. This seems particularly appropriate due to whatever fanged, clawed, feathered, and tentacle miracle of life she is going to bring into the world. In mechanical terms- drinking and nonlethal damage, or she faces some small CON damage. If she ever reaches 0, then you are going to have a Ridley Scott moment.
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As a goblin, I believe her biology is rough and tumble enough due to her kind's constant predation by low level adventurers and plentiful mutations... In mechanical terms- drinking and nonlethal damage, or she faces some small CON damage. If she ever reaches 0, then you are going to have a Ridley Scott moment.I'm assuming this is the source http://www.talesofmu.com/other/professional-small-talk
Ah, yes. I was trying to google information about the Dark Water Rising comics without knowing the name...and...well... google happened.
If I had to seriously suggest thngs I've heard before, perhaps doing stuff with load might be useful. As in, during the second trimester, treat her as having a medium load, and a heavy load during the third trimester.
Assuming this doesn't go all weird because...Lamashtu and demon babies.
If the player is interested in having a familiar, animal companion, or cohort it might be interesting to let one of the PC's fiendish offspring fill that role. I'm not sure if forcing a bunch of stereotypical problems with pregnancy onto the PC would really be fun or not. I guess that the idea demon babies might be dangerous to their mothers has some merit though. If you've absolutely got to enforce some penalties it might be fair to give some benefits too. Like maybe the mother would gain Alertness as the little critter kicks when danger is near? I suppose that some weird Lamashtu themed minor SLAs could work too.
Now for some in character comments by a goblin PC of mine named Sharky:
"Sharky not know why these people talk bad about Demon Mother’s Mask. Sharky like Venkelvore since she’s always hungry like him, but Lamashtu is great goblin goddess of motherhood. Without her mask how we make pig-man and man-pig? How we make wolf with goblin head and goblin with wolf head so we can be more like barghest? How they think first Goblin Snake got made? Humans they not think! They say not take this dark road, but Sharky think then you miss lots of fun.
Imagine fun of torturing gnomes and humans until they beg Mother for mercy, put on Mask, and wait for Squealy Nord to give them babies! First Sharky chews arms and legs off so they can’t get away and goblins can have a snack. Pickled human and gnome shank is great goblin delicacy, and Chief Sharky is expert pickler! Then Janka the Witch gives them Infernal Healing to keep them alive. All goblin tribe takes turns having fun with prisoners while we advise them of how good it is to accept Mother’s mercy and help her children come into this world. Soon our tribe have whole garden of these demon eggs like big, moaning melons only tastier! Sharky can hardly wait for them to pop open as fiendish babies burst forth from undersized wombs and goblins lick up delicious Abyssal afterbirth. What can be better than this? Maybe it is when Sharky find helicoprion and make Goblin Shark!"
As you can tell, my PC has high hopes for the Demon Mother's Mask as well as plans to attain regional power and oppress the local human and gnome populations in the most brutal manner possible...all in good fun of course...
IMHO, any PC in RotRL who is dedicated to Lamashtu, bears a monstrous child and uses the mask is doomed to become an NPC on the other side of the fence: a new adversary for the heros to face down the road.
I just don't get how you can play an evil-oriented and even less a Lamashtu-dedicated PC in this campaign. But hey, if you're into that sort of kinky, evil, warped kind of stuff, go for it.
I'm sure Sharky would like to meet Boomie too. If your RotRL campaign is still taking place in the Sandpoint area they're technically neighbors since Sharky hails from the Brinestump Marsh in a campaign booted off by We Be Goblins.
I wasn't able to see the file with your link. I'm curious to see what you came up with. The DM of our Goblin Game is a woman, so I'd kind of like to get her perspective on all this. I also wonder if it wouldn't be convenient for story reasons to allow whatever fiendish offspring the mask produces to mature at a magically accelerated rate. The idea of giving birth to fiendish babies is interesting, but having them grow into monsters which can actually do something seems like even more fun.
This just reminded me of a Hong Kong movie called "The Demon's Baby". I won't say it is a "good" movie, but it features some scenes where a demonic fetus splits open its mother's abdomen and starts attacking people from inside her, resulting in stuff like a guy staggering around with all of the flesh stripped off of his bloody skull. Whether it is cheesy gore, poor subtitles, or kung-fu fights against babies this film has something for practically everybody to dislike. Maybe your crazy goblin player would get a kick out of it.
The url is wonky because of the space right before "71-LBL3I/edit." Just take that out and put http in lower case, no s and it'll work fine.
The yellow is almost impossible to read without zooming incredibly far in. I suggest a darker font.
You should specify what the numbers in the left column mean, 12+ and etc. I assume it means amount of children in her?
The language in the thing about rolls is rather unclear. Try going for readability and not expedience in reading. Feel free to take up that column with what that roll is for. Also define with the roll is for as a full sentence. I assume it's the odds of getting pregnant? Don't know what crit is about or 1d6+4.
The stats look good. You might want to specify if the bonus to Bluff and the bonus to Charisma base checks stacks with itself.
You did good. You just need to make it more about understanding it and less about getting it down in the least words possible.
Every time I read about one of the absolutely @%#$ed-up Lamashtu items or feats that is an actual Pathfinder product, I just sigh in appreciation. Man, that thing is horrifically dark, and boy do I love it.
If people think having sex with animals is dark you should see the other stuff a party of goblins might tend get into. Slapstick comedy using people's severed limbs is just the beginning. Anyhow, I can view the document now. I've sent a link to the DM of our Goblin Game seeking her comment. Unfortunately the only female PC in the game is played by somebody else, so my PC won't be giving birth to any fiendish offspring unless maybe we find some alchemically enhanced cookies.
Since I'm already making movie references what I'm thinking of with the cookies is a film called "The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle", in which some guys from a janitorial company eat some apparently leftover cookies which chemists designed to taste warm and delicious even when they're at room temperature. The janitors are basically being used as unwitting human test subjects, and the cookies have the strange side effect of making men pregnant. A few days later these guys start giving anal birth to little creatures which look kind of like glowing blue fish and tend to escape into the city's sewer system (which seems reminiscent of the glowing jellyfish in the Japanese film "Bright Future")
Goblins do like to eat a lot of weird stuff and drink potions and alchemical concoctions, so I guess there's really no telling what might happen...
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Yeah, that is a terrible product. I mean, I would have to buy a ruler separately and tape it on to pass the 40' limit.
Ah, Sharky, I see your request to find special pickles... perhaps refreshingly chilly and crisp, no refrigeration needed?
As to the Mask, and goblin pregnancy:
-- I assumed conception was a given. It's magic, and the Demon Mother is into fertility (an "unexplained" pregnancy may be a sign of favor or disfavor, anyway). If you're a worshiper and wearing the mask and attempting pregnancy, you're going to get it.
-- Childbirth will, of course, be miserable and dangerous. Lamashtu isn't very nice in pathfinder, and she's even worse in the original source material. I'd probably go with a series of fort saves (probably with Con damage for failure).
-- I'm against the chance of spell failure for pregnancy. I guess the idea is that it's like wearing armor, but I'd consider that it should be more like the Bloatmage feats and prestige class, which have penalties similar to ones incorporated into that list and also include an armor check penalty but not ASF. If anything, I think there's an idea that it would be a more mystical time, and if you're carrying baby demons I think it would definitely affect your magical power positively.
-- I don't think the babies would necessarily age supernaturally quickly, but a spell could certainly be researched that would do it.
ETA: I also don't like being constantly flat-footed, mostly because it negates aspects of the game instead of just penalizing them, and I think that's less fun.
Because I myself am not a goblin I didn't read the spoiler I wasn't supposed to read. I like the idea of somebody pregnant with a demon baby ending up kind of like a Bloatmage though. Heck, if some sorts of fiendish babies had a longer rather than shorter gestation period than normal maybe the Demon Mother could be a prestige class where you go along gaining various Bloatmage like powers before gaining some minor Synthesist type abilities and finally maybe giving birth to a full fledged monster.
In another thread a while back somebody talked about the idea of an evil Summoner who gives birth to the summoned monsters (reminiscent of Game of Thrones I suppose)