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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8977683" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>I'm chiming in because this actually came up in my D&D campaign recently. Well, tangentially...</p><p></p><p>In the PC's hometown, one of the local taverns is run by an elven woman and her three spouses (they are a polycule). Now, my notes for these four NPCs were intentionally vague--I wasn't sure which tavern the party would end up being regulars at, and I didn't want to dedicate pages and pages of worldbuilding to something that wouldn't end up being used. So when the PCs visited this tavern, I ended up having to improv most of the scene and now the following lore has been added to my game world:</p><p></p><p>While chatting up the tavern owner, the subject of her three spouses came up. The artificer in the group politely asked about her spouses. "May I ask a delicate question about your marriage?" he began, and when permission was granted, he asked, "How did you come to have two husbands <em>and</em> a wife? This seems strange to me, because where I come from it's illegal to have more than one spouse."</p><p></p><p>"It's only strange to the shorter-lived folk," she replied. "A human lifetime is a century at best, but we of elven blood live for thousands of years. With so many years of life to fill, it isn't unusual for someone to fall in love more than once, or to marry more than once. And in my happy example, a married couple happened to fall in love with another married couple, and here we are."</p><p></p><p>I'm very proud of my players, they carried that delicate conversation carefully and seriously and it ended up contributing greatly to the lore of my game world. No bawdy jokes or giggle-fits, no obnoxious spiral of increasingly-offensive questions. They were like "Ah, thanks for sharing. That's pretty cool." and the scene moved on without derailing anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8977683, member: 50987"] I'm chiming in because this actually came up in my D&D campaign recently. Well, tangentially... In the PC's hometown, one of the local taverns is run by an elven woman and her three spouses (they are a polycule). Now, my notes for these four NPCs were intentionally vague--I wasn't sure which tavern the party would end up being regulars at, and I didn't want to dedicate pages and pages of worldbuilding to something that wouldn't end up being used. So when the PCs visited this tavern, I ended up having to improv most of the scene and now the following lore has been added to my game world: While chatting up the tavern owner, the subject of her three spouses came up. The artificer in the group politely asked about her spouses. "May I ask a delicate question about your marriage?" he began, and when permission was granted, he asked, "How did you come to have two husbands [I]and[/I] a wife? This seems strange to me, because where I come from it's illegal to have more than one spouse." "It's only strange to the shorter-lived folk," she replied. "A human lifetime is a century at best, but we of elven blood live for thousands of years. With so many years of life to fill, it isn't unusual for someone to fall in love more than once, or to marry more than once. And in my happy example, a married couple happened to fall in love with another married couple, and here we are." I'm very proud of my players, they carried that delicate conversation carefully and seriously and it ended up contributing greatly to the lore of my game world. No bawdy jokes or giggle-fits, no obnoxious spiral of increasingly-offensive questions. They were like "Ah, thanks for sharing. That's pretty cool." and the scene moved on without derailing anything. [/QUOTE]
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