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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8143642" data-attributes="member: 82106">No it isn't. You can have your characters ROLE PLAY a romance. Since no rule of D&D whatsoever will be used in that exercise, it is fair to say that it is not really 'playing D&D' per se. I mean, you can complicate things by presuming that all this happens in the backdrop of some other D&D action, but its character partakes of D&D as a game in no way whatsoever. This is why [USER=99817]@chaochou[/USER] said you could 'play it with Trivial Pursuit' because both games give you equal support, in every respect, for doing so (well, at least D&D has the concept of a 'character' as a game entity, so I'll grant it is slightly ahead here, but not much). The test of this is that the exact same 'romantic narrative' would arise in ANY other RPG (that isn't about romance), regardless of rules, as long as it allocated narrative authority in the same way (or the participants did so anyway). You could do exactly the same by simply sitting at the table making a story with no rules at all (again assuming consistent use of narrative authority).</blockquote>