High Charisma=Obsessed with sex?

[Hand of Evil]

I have seen it, someone is playing a different gender, guys play over sexed blonde female fighters or rogues with high charisma ending up meanig big breast. But then I had a couple of female players do the exact same thing!

For some reason people keep beleiving Charisma = good looks and being popular and that being popular = having sex (a lot). It is a freaking fantasy, just because you are popular does not mean you are getting it. I think it is the way the "popular" are pushed on us in TV, movies and their private lives, we always see them fooling around or half naked and they are always good looking.

 

[Yeoman]

I've seen it, but less as a consideration of high charisma, and more as a reflection of the player, IME it's certain players who are obsessed with sex, and who act it through their characters.

Just my experience though.

 

[hunter1828]

Originally posted by fusangite
I have never seen anything good come from representing marriage, romance or love in game. Furthermore, the chances that trying to portray such things will go wrong and the consequences thereof make them things I'm unwilling to include in my campaigns.

A lot of people believe that anything you can put in a fantasy novel you can put in an FRP; I believe that the range of possibilities in an RPG is narrower than in a novel in some respects. In other respects, I think we have more range at our disposal when it comes to narrative pacing, structure and possible outcomes.

I have to agree with drnuncheon on this. I'm not saying "you're just wrong, man!" or anything of the sort. I'm just saying that in my 20+ years of gaming I have never seen such things go wrong or bad, and romance has played a HUGE part in many of the games, both D&D and Star Wars, that I've run (especially those with Bards...hmmmmm...).

But if it doesn't work for you and your gaming group, that's fine and I understand not wanting to use romantic aspects in that case. I'd probably make the same decision.

hunter1828

 

[hunter1828]

Actually, I have to correct myself. I have experienced a game where sex/romance when horribly awry. I just remembered a time many years ago at a con where I played in a pick-up game of AD&D. The DM had us introduce our characters and state a little personality bit. The guy to my left said:

"My character is a human fighter, LE, and mean. Any females he sees that have a CHA of 16 or higher, he rapes."

Next was my turn, so I said:

"My character is a human female, LG, beautiful, and very exotic. She has a CHA of 18 and a STR of 18/00 and," as I turned and looked at the offending player "she'll kick your @$$ if you try anything!"

He just stared at me, as did the DM, who was wondering what happened to the MALE halfling thief I was supposed to be playing.

I got up and walked out.

hunter1828

 

[Desdichado]

I've seen players that were obsessed with sex. I've seen players that were obsessed with high-cha PCs. These players are often one and the same.

However, I've never tried to imagine that just because they were playing high charisma PCs that was making them act in an obsessed with sex way. There's no causality there, as near as I can tell.

 

[The_Gneech]

Another player plays a high Cha Paladin. She's obsessed with sex (the player is female).

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the concept of a sex-obsessed paladin ... with the possible exception of a paladin who lies awake at night fretting over the fact that somewhere out there, somebody's being ... naughty!

Oh, no, wait, I correct myself. Lancelot was a sex-obsessed paladin, wasn't he?

-The Gneech

 

[Desdichado]

I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the concept of a sex-obsessed paladin ... with the possible exception of a paladin who lies awake at night fretting over the fact that somewhere out there, somebody's being ... naughty!

Oh, no, wait, I correct myself. Lancelot was a sex-obsessed paladin, wasn't he?

-The Gneech

I've never understood why paladins should be celibate; that doesn't have anything to do with Lawful Good -- I've often thought a Casanova paladin would be an interesting character concept.

 

[Arnwyn]

Sorry i know this sounded sort of rantish, im just sick of people who think that if you have a high charisma that you are automatically obsessed with sex.

I've never seen this, *and* I allow players to play characters of the opposite gender.

 

[Fenes 2]

The paladin suffers from a very bad rep in D&D. Lawful-Stupid, holy-intolerant, chaste-puritan are the stereotypes most people think of when the class is mentioned.

It took me a long while to get over it as a DM, to accept a paladin that enjoys life and a wild festival as well as the rest of the group and uses whatever is neccessary (and accepted by his order or god) to battle evil, not limiting himself to "open melee combat since everything else, especially ranged combat, is cowardly".

 

[Sixchan]

I've never seen this, *and* I allow players to play characters of the opposite gender.

I've only seen this once, and it's me, who is currently playing the opposite sex. Of course, the character is a teenage succubus, so you'd kinda expect her to be like this. And it's a far from serious game anyway.

I play the opposite sex a lot, though, and I try not to make sex obsessed characters. At most, they would enjoy sex a lot and perhaps have sex with one of the other characters (relationships developing from adversity and all), but even this is rare. Usually, the character would have healthy sex life or not have sex much at all, which can include high charisma even in the latter (look at Morrissey).