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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 6881186" data-attributes="member: 5100"><p>Yeah. I've never had great luck with romance/sensuality in my games, either. My current group is me as DM, with a bunch of (straight) guys, my wife, and my daughter. None of the guys is a deep enough roleplayer to want to have a romantic conversation with me. My wife and I don't figure anyone wants to hear us have a romantic conversation and (again with the not overly deep RP) it would be awkward weird for her to RP a relationship with another guy while I'm DMing. Since my daughter is 13, take any discomfort anyone at the table already has and multiply it by pedophilia -- even if she's not part of it, RP is an intimate enough hobby that she's <u>right there</u>.</p><p></p><p>Over all, I'd say having very much sensuality in most RP groups falls apart for two reasons:</p><p>1) We're not professional actors. Sure, people in Hollywood engage in some level of romance with people they aren't attached to all the time in the name of the show. We're doing this for our own entertainment, not the audience's. There just isn't a part of me that's entertained by pretending to flirt with that out-of-shape, married, middle-aged dude sitting across the table from me. Even when one of the other wives plays, I'm not interested in them, either -- not entertaining, and not worth any potential fallout from misunderstandings.</p><p></p><p>2) RP is a group activity and it's intimate enough that everyone at the table is generally engaged. If you're attached to someone outside the game (sometimes, even if you're not), you can get away with a bit of banter, but most folks don't really want to be included in anything that fits the bill of "sensuality" between two other players sitting at the same table. It's too personal. You can get away with violence because that's pretty abstract to most players, especially when done against orcs, zombies, and dragons.</p><p></p><p>I could see it working if hinted at between two NPCs ("Strahd's gaze settles on Irena, smoldering"). It's a fine line, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 6881186, member: 5100"] Yeah. I've never had great luck with romance/sensuality in my games, either. My current group is me as DM, with a bunch of (straight) guys, my wife, and my daughter. None of the guys is a deep enough roleplayer to want to have a romantic conversation with me. My wife and I don't figure anyone wants to hear us have a romantic conversation and (again with the not overly deep RP) it would be awkward weird for her to RP a relationship with another guy while I'm DMing. Since my daughter is 13, take any discomfort anyone at the table already has and multiply it by pedophilia -- even if she's not part of it, RP is an intimate enough hobby that she's [U]right there[/U]. Over all, I'd say having very much sensuality in most RP groups falls apart for two reasons: 1) We're not professional actors. Sure, people in Hollywood engage in some level of romance with people they aren't attached to all the time in the name of the show. We're doing this for our own entertainment, not the audience's. There just isn't a part of me that's entertained by pretending to flirt with that out-of-shape, married, middle-aged dude sitting across the table from me. Even when one of the other wives plays, I'm not interested in them, either -- not entertaining, and not worth any potential fallout from misunderstandings. 2) RP is a group activity and it's intimate enough that everyone at the table is generally engaged. If you're attached to someone outside the game (sometimes, even if you're not), you can get away with a bit of banter, but most folks don't really want to be included in anything that fits the bill of "sensuality" between two other players sitting at the same table. It's too personal. You can get away with violence because that's pretty abstract to most players, especially when done against orcs, zombies, and dragons. I could see it working if hinted at between two NPCs ("Strahd's gaze settles on Irena, smoldering"). It's a fine line, though. [/QUOTE]
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