Baby Boomers

Question: If a player character is pregnant and she wishes to use the Psychopomp Boon Unbarred Entry, would she also need to expend the cost for Come Along to bring the unborn children with her?

Ha, creative thinking! But no, the fetus is free. The same goes for any other Psychopomp boon, or for other boons that involve costs for extra people (The Milky Road, Deus Ex Machina, etc).

You could separate out a bunch of effects for pregnant person versus non-pregnant person, but honestly it doesn't help the game much to add a lot of complications and extra resource-spending. We also wouldn't want to make pregnant people roll Stamina + Fortitude separately for their tiny inmates whenever affected by things like poison or disease (because otherwise nobody above Legend 3 would ever have pregnancies survive to term), or force them to be constantly rolling to see if taking damage in a fight caused them to miscarry. While the sproutling is still physically inside and living off of its parent's body, it counts as part of that parent unless there are wild extenuating circumstances.

Of course, those extenuating circumstances can happen and be dramatically compelling, but unless an enemy is intentionally trying to make a player miscarry (either through violence, through some kind of curse or relic or through Curse of Frailty, which is the one boon that does affect unborn children), it's usually better left to cinematic dodging and stunting appropriate to the situation. Our pregnant PCs usually pick up a few precautionary measures like Blessing of Health or Invulnerable Nail, but so far they've all made it to birth if they wanted to.

We do, however, cause passing through strange landscapes to sometimes affect unborn children in the womb; for example, going to an Underworld while pregnant means there's a chance the fetus will die thanks to being mortal, even though it's still inside you, while some Terrae Incognita might cause bizarre effects and an unborn baby is probably vulnerable to sustaining changes or mutations (usually not for the better) from Titanrealms you pass through. The Scion who carries the baby might herself also affect its growth by shapechanging while pregnant or using certain powers that influence it, at Storyteller discretion.

Our players are eagerly awaiting the imminent birth of Eztli's and Sowiljr's latest spawn, which is the first PC baby that is fully god-level (they didn't Avatar down for conception) and has also been rampantly shapechanged and dragged through multiple Underworlds and Titanrealms during gestation within its eternally active mother. The betting pool on exactly what kind of monster it's going to be is still awaiting a verdict, but everyone's pretty thoroughly sure it won't be normal.