Chances of Getting Pregnant Copyright (c) 1996 by MA Lloyd Roll monthly (say with other housekeeping like collecting time use sheets). Base chance of becoming pregnant is 6 or less, 3 is critical success. Modifiers: 16-25 age group +1 35+ age group -1 Good health +1 (HT12+, or HT10+ and good diet) Poor health -1 (HT8-, or suffering an infectious illness that month) Nursing -2 Sex activity that month confined to a single week -2 (assumed to be random, use +0 instead if you know ovulation happens then, e.g. ignoring a rhythm method abstenance requirement) two weeks -1 Using contraceptive method rhythm -3 (requires abstinence one specific week in 4) pill -4 (typical adherence to schedule) simple barrier -5 (condoms and diaphrams, critical success still bypasses) Reliable contraceptive (implant, IUD or careful adherance to oral schedule) requires a verified critical success (roll again on a 3, with no modifier for contraceptive method). Abstinence always works barring the activities of a god with deviant sexual practices.