I'm pretty sure that the ability to procreate should be left to games like Fable. In Fable you start out as a child and grow older, you can marry, have six and have kids. TES games are based around an ADVENTURE, not a LIFE. So No ¹⁰.
Gimmicks like this would ruin TES.

While adding options like that might sound like a good idea. You have to realize that develoment time has restrictions. You could theoretically keep developing a game until it had absolutely everything. Of course, it would never be released.
So since adding the option to have children would mean less focus on other aspects of the game, then NO. It is completely unnecessary to the game.
If people want that it can be modded into the game by an overzealous modder.

While I don't hate the idea, I don't think it'd be handled in a way that would satisfy me.

Children would no doubt be handled like Fallout, and I think I speak for everyone when I say that we hate essential characters, but to that effect, Bethesda arn't going to make a child-murder simulator.

So if children are essential, I'd rather see them left as ambiance as I feel that children would make the world feel more alive, but not drawing too much attention to them would help us forget about them being essential.

Now if this is the way it is, having children would be pretty much the same as Fable, which is pretty pointless in the end.

If children were implemented in the way I'd like to see them, they would come on adventures with me and I'd teach them about combat and the world, but with them being essential, that wouldn't work very well.

So I'm gonna have to vote no.

Dear sir/madame: I'm truly deeply sorry... but you've not made any point.

Your comment provides no insight or meaningful contribution to the discussion at hand. You arbitrarily reference another, very popular game franchise in an attempt (albeit a failed and long-since-original way) to discredit the idea. If I have a book, then I ought to be able to read it. A system that adequately can age the player over the course of years? Why not? They already have a system that can age the face... all it would take is making it so that the actual BODY could grow in size (and age in texture). If you feel this is 'too much' and 'exaggerated'... then I regret to inform you but, you're incorrect.

It happens to the best of us.

PS: Whenever you begin an argument with "What all you (insert stereotype here) want..." as your first words, you've already lost.

Sincerely,
The Colonel.

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Your experience with Fable 2 doesn't really apply, here... as this is not Fable. It's Bethesda's baby, The Elder Scrolls.

While you can rest assured that it won't actually happen, the fact of the matter is that if it ever -does-... it will no doubt be done in a way which actively makes the game entertaining. Otherwise, it'll get cut out. (Like spears, apparently, the bastards...)

This actually sums up my position pretty well.

I do think the idea would be nice from a Role-Playing position, but I really have to question how it would be put into the game, especially for female characters. Would she just be forced to stay at home or in an inn or something when she's close to giving birth, or can I just have a baby when I'm fighting a dragon? For males, just how much... lets say "interaction" with a female character would be needed before she gets pregnant (something Fable style where I have to take her to bed, or more in line with Harvest Moon, where your wife will just be pregnant one day)?

Even once the child is born... what interaction would I be able to have with it? Can I bring it with me when I go wander the wilderness? Can I move from city to city, or if I have a child in one city, will it stay there forever? Will it age (to a certain point)?

If it is going to be done, Bethesda would need to do it a very specific way to avoid being tedious or pointless. Best left to the modders in my opinion.

Children are to TES like energy is to the real world. Can′t destroy them, can′t create them.

At least as far as I know.

As an involuntarily childless woman myself, I find this point rather irrelevant to anyone's gaming experience. As such, it is also way off-topic. Though it is nice to see more than one or two word posts now and again.

I'm still hoping a happy medium can be found between waking up one day with a child, a nanny, and a boarding school application and going through every excruciating detail of human gestation. I have always considered having a home and family in my characters' backstory made his/her willingness to go to the ends of the earth to save Nirn much more realistic. Especially in games like Morrowind where the native population isn't exactly welcoming of their savior from afar.

As far as excruciating details go, inasmuch as the PC might be hit by a cold spell, yet not have to watch as his/her fingers, toes, and nose turn black and fall off, I think it's possible to introduce a family element without morning sickness, childbirth, and the terrible twos.