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<blockquote data-quote="hastur_nz" data-source="post: 7751764" data-attributes="member: 40592">No, I don't recall any of my players ever being interested in PC-on-PC romance or suchlike.&nbsp; I've only recently played aside, and also DM'd, a real-life couple, and they have also never wanted to create any kind of in-game links between their PC's, which is good because I suspect some of the players might find that awkward (we are all mid-life-ish, mostly men but have had a couple of women in the groups from time to time).&nbsp; Basically my players are all into different things, but none are heavy into role-play for its own sake, nor pretending to have relationships with each other and all the pretend drama that might come out of that...&nbsp; it's strictly for the NPC's!The closest we've got was the odd &quot;haha, you're playing a female so my character will make a few sexist type remarks to your character&quot;, basically guys joking around at people who, for whatever reason, decide to play the opposite gender.&nbsp; But we tend to have various comedic type players, so it's not a feature in and of itself, just part of the overall banter.Definitely, lots of PC-NPC actions are romantic, sexual or whatever.&nbsp; I had a player who ended up marrying an NPC around the end of the campaign, she'd previously been picked up as a Follower (3.5 rules); but they guy was playing a woman, so it was probably an extension of the &quot;Fantasy&quot; element that some players get into; it wasn't a big feature, to be honest, but it didn't feel forced (he made it up as he went along).As a DM, I'm often &quot;guilty&quot; of playing up sexual tension as much as I can via my NPCs, but it's really just another way of me yanking my players chains, so to speak, I like to provide interesting choices where I can, so it's just another tool in the toolset, so to speak.In my current campaign, early on my female player took my &quot;bait&quot; and hooked up her half-elf Ranger with an elf NPC who had useful information and was a big flirt and they just happened to be having drinks then dinner... it was a great plot point later on when they were still &quot;seeing each other&quot;, when I managed to get a scene where the players were rushing to Parliament, of which he was a member, and just before they got there, Parliament blew up!&nbsp; Basically an &quot;ad-lib&quot; scene that developed through play.&nbsp; Quite tragic (haha).&nbsp; A couple of months later, the player messaged me and said, &quot;hey, what about if my PC is pregnant with his child?&quot;, so a few weeks later I managed to start the process of using that as another plot device...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hastur_nz, post: 7751764, member: 40592"] No, I don't recall any of my players ever being interested in PC-on-PC romance or suchlike. I've only recently played aside, and also DM'd, a real-life couple, and they have also never wanted to create any kind of in-game links between their PC's, which is good because I suspect some of the players might find that awkward (we are all mid-life-ish, mostly men but have had a couple of women in the groups from time to time). Basically my players are all into different things, but none are heavy into role-play for its own sake, nor pretending to have relationships with each other and all the pretend drama that might come out of that... it's strictly for the NPC's! The closest we've got was the odd "haha, you're playing a female so my character will make a few sexist type remarks to your character", basically guys joking around at people who, for whatever reason, decide to play the opposite gender. But we tend to have various comedic type players, so it's not a feature in and of itself, just part of the overall banter. Definitely, lots of PC-NPC actions are romantic, sexual or whatever. I had a player who ended up marrying an NPC around the end of the campaign, she'd previously been picked up as a Follower (3.5 rules); but they guy was playing a woman, so it was probably an extension of the "Fantasy" element that some players get into; it wasn't a big feature, to be honest, but it didn't feel forced (he made it up as he went along). As a DM, I'm often "guilty" of playing up sexual tension as much as I can via my NPCs, but it's really just another way of me yanking my players chains, so to speak, I like to provide interesting choices where I can, so it's just another tool in the toolset, so to speak. In my current campaign, early on my female player took my "bait" and hooked up her half-elf Ranger with an elf NPC who had useful information and was a big flirt and they just happened to be having drinks then dinner... it was a great plot point later on when they were still "seeing each other", when I managed to get a scene where the players were rushing to Parliament, of which he was a member, and just before they got there, Parliament blew up! Basically an "ad-lib" scene that developed through play. Quite tragic (haha). A couple of months later, the player messaged me and said, "hey, what about if my PC is pregnant with his child?", so a few weeks later I managed to start the process of using that as another plot device... [/QUOTE]

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