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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8436847" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I've done Romance several times over the years, each time being better than the last simply due to life experiences and all of us being more mature and having actual, deep, loving relationships (out of my last 6 players, 5 were married, with the last getting married a couple years before they moved down to Vancouver; so...everyone married and 4/6 having kids).Anyway, I don't do it much because I (we I guess) found it was...hmmm... &quot;too personal&quot;. We like to have character's attached to other characters emotionally, sure, but romance? Well, lets just say that the last time I did it, 'seriously' was back in the late 90's. When &quot;Kilashaundra&quot; (my future-wife's 1e Ranger) had to leave Homlett by order of Dame Gold in order to track down the Slavers...the local stable-boy/man who had fallen deeply in love with her and she had some serious feelings towards him. Put it this way, I think only one person at the table wasn't reaching for the tissues...I certainly dampened my sleeves! Talk about heart-wrenching! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😭" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62d.png" title="Loudly crying face&nbsp; &nbsp; :sob:" data-shortname=":sob:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />We had to take a 15 minute break after the last 'scene' in order to compose ourselves and get back to it. LOL!I think all of us at that time came to the conclusion that having romance THAT deep and prevalent in our game was just a tad too much for us to handle, emotionally. So we tone it down a bit. There are &quot;relationships&quot; that are both physical and emotional between PC's/NPC's, but we try and 'gloss over' a lot of the RP'ing and keep it more along the line of &quot;superficial teen romance&quot; in stead of &quot;deep and mature romance&quot;.Same idea with violence, really: &quot;The bulette latches onto the head of your horse and in one swift yank, decapitates it! You and the dead mount crash to the ground as the creature gulps down it's snack&quot; ...that's fine. Descriptive, but not over the top, versus... well, use your imagination on all the sickening things I could say to describe crunching, slurping, popping, and other such descriptors. Sometimes &quot;too much&quot; actually IS &quot;too much&quot;.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8436847, member: 45197"] Hiya! I've done Romance several times over the years, each time being better than the last simply due to life experiences and all of us being more mature and having actual, deep, loving relationships (out of my last 6 players, 5 were married, with the last getting married a couple years before they moved down to Vancouver; so...everyone married and 4/6 having kids). Anyway, I don't do it much because I (we I guess) found it was...hmmm... "too personal". We like to have character's attached to other characters emotionally, sure, but romance? Well, lets just say that the last time I did it, 'seriously' was back in the late 90's. When "Kilashaundra" (my future-wife's 1e Ranger) had to leave Homlett by order of Dame Gold in order to track down the Slavers...the local stable-boy/man who had fallen deeply in love with her and she had some serious feelings towards him. Put it this way, I think only one person at the table wasn't reaching for the tissues...I certainly dampened my sleeves! Talk about heart-wrenching! 😭 We had to take a 15 minute break after the last 'scene' in order to compose ourselves and get back to it. LOL! I think all of us at that time came to the conclusion that having romance THAT deep and prevalent in our game was just a [I]tad[/I] too much for us to handle, emotionally. So we tone it down a bit. There are "relationships" that are both physical and emotional between PC's/NPC's, but we try and 'gloss over' a lot of the RP'ing and keep it more along the line of "superficial teen romance" in stead of "deep and mature romance". Same idea with violence, really: "The bulette latches onto the head of your horse and in one swift yank, decapitates it! You and the dead mount crash to the ground as the creature gulps down it's snack" ...that's fine. Descriptive, but not over the top, versus... well, use your imagination on all the sickening things I could say to describe crunching, slurping, popping, and other such descriptors. Sometimes "too much" actually IS "too much". ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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