How do you work sex into your campaign?

[fusangite]

Sex is about as peripheral to the campaign as possible. It's simply not something appropriate for a D&D game. If I have a PC and the DM gives us a few days in a town, I'll set aside a certain percentage of my gold and announce that I'm spending it on whores and ale. That's about it.

As a DM, there is no place in my games for sex. But I do encourage characters to spend some time and money on whores and ale. None of that, however, is playing time.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well when they go into town, some say they are headed to the pub to get blitzed, but some go wenching. I consult my trusty DMG and the RANDOM HARLOT table. So say Lorrick goes for a wench, he rolls percentile dice. Say he gets a 69, well that means he found a wanton wench and he's out a few silvers for drinks to get her into the sack. But if he rolls a 02 he gets a slovenly trull, she may rob him, and has to make a Con check to see if he gets VD. That chance would be modified depending on how much clerical power is in the town and if there is a temple to a god(ess) who smiles on saucy tarts, cheap trollops, haughty courtesans, and typical streetwalkers.

 

[AeroDm]

When I am the DM the last thing I want to do is look across the table and see a smirk on one of my friend's faces as he tries to pick up some hot little number that I am RPing.

Moreover, my friends are all powergamers, so they wouldn't be willign to spend the 1 gp on a prostitute. What can I say, I don't push em.

The one time it did occur though we didn't RP anything out. It was just Cha checks for seduction, akward RP, a lot of OOC stuff, and then moving on.

 

[hunter1828]

Sex is about as peripheral to the campaign as possible. It's simply not something appropriate for a D&D game. If I have a PC and the DM gives us a few days in a town, I'll set aside a certain percentage of my gold and announce that I'm spending it on whores and ale. That's about it.

As a DM, there is no place in my games for sex. But I do encourage characters to spend some time and money on whores and ale. None of that, however, is playing time.

I agree that as a DM you have the right to determine what does and does not have a place in your game. I would therefore ask that because of that, you qualify your statement, "It's simply not something appropriate for a D&D game" by rephrasing it as "It's simply not something appropriate for my D&D game".

As a DM, I find there is a place in my games for sex. Interestingly enough, in my main campaign (which is now 3 1/2 years old) very little money has been spent on prostitutes as most of the characters are married or in long-term monogamous relationships.

But they've spent lots on ale.

hunter1828

 

[Green Knight]

With the exception of my first D&D game 13 years ago, every one of my characters has been completely chaste, getting less action in the course of the campaign then Mulder got throughout the entire run of the X-Files. The closest thing any of my characters ever got to getting any was an Ex-Paladin who went into a combat blitzed out of his mind (The guy spent his days and nights in an alcoholic haze, and so went into this combat with no weapons or armor, aside from a whip), and when the female party member got knocked out, he searched her unconscious body for the healing potions she carried so he could heal her, taking any and all opportunities to cop a feel while he did so (I think it's safe to say she didn't keep any healing potions in her bra or in her ass).

As for the first game, me and another player said we were looking for wenches. So the DM had us roll percentage dice to see how well we performed. I got an 89 (I remember because I remember wishing that I had picked the other die as the high die, so I could've gotten a 98, instead), while another player got 90+. So the DM said we drove the wenches up the walls and then moved on. Whatever the case, I'm just glad I didn't roll less than 25% (Which I suppose is the cut-off point for impotence. "This usually doesn't happen to me!"). I can just hear the cat-calling I would've gotten for that one. Wench would've probably spread it all over town.

Wait, I just remembered another time, not long after my first game. It was an evil campaign and I was playing an Anti-Paladin who visited a whorehouse. Though nothing was described, there (No dice rolls or anything), other than the fact that the whores ROBBED me, which sent my character into a bloodthirsty frenzy. So he set fire to the whore house and burned it to the ground.

And that's pretty much it.

 

[abri]

Well it depends:
Romance and weddings are pretty frequent IMC or the one I played in.
Let's see so far in 14 years of gaming, 7 of my characters got married (6 then had kids). Of my players' character, one got into a crosbow wedding (medieval version of the shotgun wedding), 5 got married and about 15 had kids...
And that's NOT counting the time we played the French game bloodlust...
It really depend on how the DM can present it. I find that generally the fade into black after the first kiss seems to be a common method.

 

[LuYangShih]

Romance and family relationships are a great part of many fantasy stories, and so have a place in almost any D&D game. I do not think graphic descriptions of sex are neccessary, or desirable, in almost anyones games, however. I do not see how it would add to the game, and it seems both pointless and immature to me.

 

[Celtavian]

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I put on a blonde wig and a dress, then I use as feminine a voice as possible.

Seriously, we consider sex like eating or drinking, nothing needs to be too graphic but we all know it happens often with the non-magical fighter and rogue types. What true fighter, rogue or barbarian doesn't go wenching whenever possible?

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Hard and fast.

I had to say it if no one else would.

 

[Gez]

... Again and again, the raging dwarf hurled his hammer on the skulls or ribs of his enemies. Flesh, bone, rings of armor, everything was smashed together into a bloody pulp. Bones sundered, brain matter spurted in the most violent death, while the longest ones left victims agonizing slowly, drowning in their blood after their broken ribcage crushed and perforated their lungs. When a downed foe seemed to be still moving, he mercilessly kicked them in the face or the belly with his heavy metallic boots, with a joyful, sadistic, grin.

[...]


Meanwhile, in the garden of her mentor's tower, far away from the carnage, the young sorcerer met her beloved. They chated delightfully about this and that, nothing at all in fact, simply enjoying the pleasure of being together. When they became tired of words, they moved closer from each other, and she said...
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"Caress my breasts..."

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