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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8436822" data-attributes="member: 3400">Welcome to the difference between a collectable card game and a role playing game? By that, I mean there's lore behind MtG, but it's not like players need to engage with any sort of role playing or interaction with it or any semblance of normal human behavior to play the game. You shuffle, deal, draw, tap, declare attacks/blocking, whatever. You don't have to do anything but interact with it mechanically.While you can limit yourself to playing in a pawn directing style in an RPG, the settings and interaction are designed/intended to mimic fantasy versions of human society and to allow players to enact any sort of open-ended behavior they want or find acceptable. So, yeah, romance of sorts is frequently included in role playing games - at least in the background - just as it is in human life.In the games I run, if players want their PCs to engage in romantic or sexual relations, they may do so. If among party members, players need to consent to it mutually. If between PCs and NPCs, I'm the one who gets to define how the NPCs react to it. And if things &quot;get busy&quot;, we fade to black.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8436822, member: 3400"] Welcome to the difference between a collectable card game and a role playing game? By that, I mean there's lore behind MtG, but it's not like players need to engage with any sort of role playing or interaction with it or any semblance of normal human behavior to play the game. You shuffle, deal, draw, tap, declare attacks/blocking, whatever. You don't have to do anything but interact with it mechanically. While you can limit yourself to playing in a pawn directing style in an RPG, the settings and interaction are designed/intended to mimic fantasy versions of human society and to allow players to enact any sort of open-ended behavior they want or find acceptable. So, yeah, romance of sorts is frequently included in role playing games - at least in the background - just as it is in human life. In the games I run, if players want their PCs to engage in romantic or sexual relations, they may do so. If among party members, players need to consent to it mutually. If between PCs and NPCs, I'm the one who gets to define how the NPCs react to it. And if things "get busy", we fade to black. [/QUOTE]

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