My nord has been married for more then a year, and has never had six with said partner.

I want a divorce.

How do the people of skyrim procreate without having six?

Is it an asixual thing?

It's probably related to the way they go about using the toilet, I'd imagine.

Wait... did the person you're married to/your character get pregnant?

'These aren't the droids you are looking for.'

In other words...this probably isn't the game for you.

they magically spawn. one day you'll walk out of your house and there will be 5 more new kids (nah, not even this is true)

You make a small sacrifice of red mountain flowers and walk around your horse backwards five times

The Children of Skyrim spontaneously generate at an intersection of the astral planes located high above the tundra near Whiterun. This is the same place where the deer and the mammoths are created. They then fall to the earth. True sons and daughters of Skyrim will survive the fall, and after a brief pause to shake off the pain, an entry will appear in their journals -telling them who their parents are and what city they should travel to so they can play tag.

Made by sheogorath?

Heh, just make a script for after a sleeping event and spawn a kid in 9 months.

thanks for the troll comments, it really helps OP. As far as I know, you can't have kids after you marry. It's kinda stupid but just how besthesda decided to go about making the game. You can only get married and get sleeping bonus's with her. In essence the marry system is quite under-developed and hopefully when next generation consoles comes out TESVI will have features like this.

Edit: if you're playing on PC i'm sure someone might have made a mod for this but as for the core game it isn't possible

Do you think the ability to parent children is a possible dlc/add on to the game?

ok this is far fetched.. have children.. age.. die.. play as your children.

This is an edit:

i know this game isn't going to go that far(though it should).

but for TES 6 wouldn't it be cool to play through generations of your character?

...and Nazeem would still wonder if you've ever been to the cloud district...

As pretty neat this idea would sound, not sure how they'll go about developing this. As far as I know spending loads of time in skyrim like year doesn't really change anything in game unless it's scripted

There'll be a mod for having children, if there isn't already. I definitely don't want aging/six/having children in the vanilla game, though. Just doesn't appeal to me.

I think having my character be preggers would sort of limit her adventuring.

Not sure about pregnancy, but I wish we could adopt Aventus or the children from Honorhall. Those poor little kids need a home.

Dragonborn give up having children for immortality. They may still have them some day, but for the foreseeable future, at least the next hundred years, marriage is strictly for the company.

EDIT: It is FAR from an asixual process mind you. There are all manner of enchantments both to induce temporary sterility and enhance fertility. No, these are NOT mutually exclusive!

I'm going to have to bring up Baldur's Gate 2 again, so please bear with me. There were 4 possible characters you could romance, 3 women and 1 man. With one of the women--Aerie, whom I and a large portion of the forum community hated--you could actually have a child. I'm not sure how much time I took, because I hated her character and didnt romance her and very rarely recruited her into my party. The child, which was actually treated as an inventory item and not an actual NPC, added nothing to the game's content. A lot of people didnt like the idea because it was pointless, and her character was so jaded.

Now lets imagine people could get pregnant in this game. What if its your follower. Do you want to risk them dying while they were pregnant or will you leave them behind until they give birth? Not that Aerie constantly dying had any effect on her pregnancy. And once they do, are they going to stay home and take care of the kid, or will somebody else do it. Now, what if you're playing a female character and you were the one who got pregnant?

I personally dont see any reason to implement having kids into the game.

ok... For one, fable has done this with fable 2 and 3. 3 starts with the next generation of 2.

why not just put it in one game?

And for that... why not .... well not limit how many generations are allowed?

Well, it's clearly not so simple, as children were only invented recently, 200 years ago advlts just appeared out of thin air, now we've invented these children so clearly high powered magic is required to do it, it's not something the average person can do.

But realistically, I think bethesda really don't want to put focus on this when they could spend it in other places. Hell I'm surprised they included marriage at all, it's not necessary to the game, more a distraction.

I agree.. but I think that it's a mistake.

This is one reason that this game seems so one-dimentional.

The only off the path, creative, personal character quest is marriage, and that marriage is purely a decorative item is really short-sighted on Bethesda's part.

I never really get to know the character I'm playing with.

It's all "next quest"... "next dungeon", with no time to smell the roses, and develop a character's personality.

Hmm, I see your point and it does feel fairly one dimensional when Bethesda included marriage, it maybe would have made more sense to not include it. That said I'm not sure I want Bethesda to remove more features, expansion of it would be nice but I don't see it selling as DLC. Mods might arrive, but that's no help for console players.

Personally, I think being able to keep a journal (that you can type into) would be a great feature for developing your character as a role-player. That and more NPC interaction, I don't see your character having children as necessary - there should be ways to develop them without doing this, though optional would be fine however the problem would be that the more effort they put in the more focus it gets and the more complaints.

Also, daggerfall-esque background generation (optional of course) would be fun to have as well. Having a history is a great step toward being a character.

At a guess, it would have taken the whole "role play game" thing to an insanely realistic level, or what I mean when sober is - it isn't as detailed a game as that.

Looking at it another way. So in Skyrim you can get married, nice touch actually and perhaps one Bethesda didn't think would be as popular as it is.
However, let's look as an example at a different game - GTA San Andreas. Now in that, there was a hidden mini-game where you could have six with your girlfriend.
All evidence points to it being a joke thing the programmers put in, the studio soon closed it off but there was quite a few protests at the time at such content being there.

Bethesda could have easily extended the marriage thing to say have this option, but it would have opened a huge can of worms. The game rating, and it would have alienated a part of the target audience. Well ok, possibly not alienated, but it would have no doubt been all over the internet, by silly people making nudge nudge remarks about it, and would have overshadowed the whole game. An unwelcome addition really.

So no nookie, no kids, but she will call you my love and make you an apple lattice pie. Excellent surely

fable did it nicely

in fable you could do your under the sheets stuff, and make a baby.

I mean .. you could even hear the six talk while it was going on.

didn't hurt fable sales at all.

No way. It's common knowledge that you summon children from the fourteenth daedric plane of oblivion.