How do you work sex into your campaign?

[Umbran]

At a larp once I played a hobbit pirate king, with a jeweled codpiece. It was a sports cup covered in gold cloth with rhinestones sewn on and held in place by velcro on maroon sweatpants.

I haven't seen teh Blackadder thing folks have mentioned, but what you describe above isn't as goofy as it got. Imagine all that, but shaped in such a way as Eric's Grandma would not appreciate my describing it here. Now, imagine that shape in cloth, as a part of courtly garb. Then you'll have an image of codpieces as they used to be, at their goofiest.

 

[Buttercup]

Sex is not icky. Messy, perhaps, if you're doing it right. But not icky.

If the DM and players feel awkward about roleplaying a sex scene with each other because -- as more than one person has suggested here -- the participants at the table are out of shape and unattractive, then maybe they should be working to improve their appearances and social skills instead of licking the orange Cheeto powder from their fingers between dice rolls.

No, sex is not icky, per se. But it isn't something I want to do in a group. And it isn't something I want to describe with friends rather than actually *do* with my husband. My unwillingness to role play sex at the table has nothing to do with the attractiveness of my players, and everything to do with what feels appropriate for me.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

And to second Djeta's experience, it's always the girls in my group who say things like, "My character's going to try and pick somebody up." After they get the ball (ing) rolling (bwa ha ha), some of the guys will say, "Yeah, me too!" but it's always the girls who start that stuff.

I find this to be true with most of the girl gamers I know, too.

Ahhh why is that? (I'm going to venture a guess but I'm sure it will be wrong, but anyhow, freedom of repercussions?)


EDITED: to find the rest of my quote(s).

 

[Angcuru]

I finally get a little internet time and this is MY opinion on the subject:

In game, my group tends to regulate the subject to a simple yes/no when it comes to the subject.

HUMAN Fighter : I'm trying to seduce the hot elven chick in the corner.
DM : Charisma check please.
Fighter: ......22!
DM : She spits in your face and kicks you in the junk. Roll a fortitude save.
Fighter : ....8.
DM : You fall the ground in agony as everyone points and laughs.
Fighter: But I rolled a 22!
DM : Maybe she hates humans, ever think of that?
ELVEN Ranger : I go over and lay my best lines on her. 13.
DM : She seems interested, but after a few minutes a really big elf dude comes out of a room behind her, sees yoou, and proceeds to try to strangle you.
Ranger : OH CRAP!


etc. etc. Occasionally someone gets lucky and it's a simple : You wake up with a smile on your face. Tada.

Venerial diseases can be fun to throw at your players as well. One time one of the PCs, a half dragon, got busy with another half dragon, and woke up the next day with a burning itch in their crotch. The cure happened to be plucking out his pubes one by one with a pair of tweezers and sewing them back on. He was quite abstinent afterwards.

Sex in D&D is what you make of it. If you have a mature group you could implement it via romances and create new plot hooks and character bonds, etc. Yet for most groups, it seems to be avoided or limited to brothels and one night stands.

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

Yes, that is a pun.

 

[blackshirt5]

It happens, with some characters more than others. and in a human only empire, the Vanara and centaur are plain out of luck.

I dunno, you might get a disturbed farm girl or noblewoman who wants to play "Catherine the Great" with the centaur.

*shakes disturbing imagery out of his head*

 

[blackshirt5]

Re: I finally get a little internet time and this is MY opinion on the subject:

In game, my group tends to regulate the subject to a simple yes/no when it comes to the subject.

HUMAN Fighter : I'm trying to seduce the hot elven chick in the corner.
DM : Charisma check please.
Fighter: ......22!
DM : She spits in your face and kicks you in the junk. Roll a fortitude save.
Fighter : ....8.
DM : You fall the ground in agony as everyone points and laughs.
Fighter: But I rolled a 22!
DM : Maybe she hates humans, ever think of that?
ELVEN Ranger : I go over and lay my best lines on her. 13.
DM : She seems interested, but after a few minutes a really big elf dude comes out of a room behind her, sees yoou, and proceeds to try to strangle you.
Ranger : OH CRAP!


etc. etc. Occasionally someone gets lucky and it's a simple : You wake up with a smile on your face. Tada.

I don't remember that conversation, ever happening in game. Did it, or is that just an example?

Also, Mr. Han was seemingly sex obsessed but the most detail we ever got into with that was the cheesy porno music Ricky would hum whenever he teleported away.

Also, Angcuru, let us never forget Crane's adventures with King the barmaiden.

 

[Angcuru]

Re: Re: I finally get a little internet time and this is MY opinion on the subject:

I don't remember that conversation, ever happening in game. Did it, or is that just an example?

Also, Angcuru, let us never forget Crane's adventures with King the barmaiden.

Just an unrelated example of how things tend to go with us. Excepting Crane of course, and the incidents with your Faerie Samurai and Ron's Half-Dragon during my first DMing experience. As for Crane's encounter.....that was JUST WRONG!

 

[blackshirt5]

Re: Re: Re: I finally get a little internet time and this is MY opinion on the subject:

Just an unrelated example of how things tend to go with us. Excepting Crane of course, and the incidents with your Faerie Samurai and Ron's Half-Dragon during my first DMing experience. As for Crane's encounter.....that was JUST WRONG!

Aye, nothing quite like a 5' tall winged elven samurai leaning against the side of a stable trying very hard to seduce a near 7 foot tall centaur girl to understand why I absolutely do not want to RP sexual encounters.

You know I drew on my own experiences with that one, right? I used to be vertically challenged.

And the Crane thing...was only wrong from your POV. The rest of us had a right good laugh.

 

[hunter1828]

It's clear that many that don't use detail of sexual situations in their games do so NOT from an uncomfortableness with sex itself, but rather an uncomfortableness with going into DETAIL about sexual relationships with certain people.

That's perfectly understandable. As I stated in an earlier post, my primary campaign uses the "fade-to-black"/"later"/"the-next-morning" way of dealing with sex, as I don't want to RP sex with the male members of my group, and I know they would not want to do so with me.

On the other hand, the private campaign I run for my wife is very different, as it is just she and I and I only have to worry about not crossing her boundaries. So far I haven't, and I don't think I ever will.

For those that don't include sex at all because they want to focus on the adventure, the story, and/or the combat, it's your campaign. I respect that and your game style. All I ask in return is the same.

hunter1828

 

[Wycen]

Sex is a subject in our games and even a subplot on occasion and all of us, including the women crack bad jokes or comments. We are all comfortable enough with the subject.

As a subplot, it works like this, as this happened just last week and the fallout continued this week.

My character is looking for a "princess" for his "prince"; my character being a dumb ogre manipulated by the "prince". With a 9 INT and 14 WIS, he came up with the best idea he could.

Have a town crier run through town calling for women interested in marrying the wealthy prince to show up in a dirt field. 250 women showed up. They then had to wrestle each other until the final 6 were left and those 6 then were eliminated until the survivor went out of the town with the prince.

Of course the idea of adding water to the mix came up.

The prince during this whole time has been reluctant, but that's what he gets for manipulating a poor dumb ogre to being his bodygaurd.


Nothing graphic was described and I actually got 300 bonus experience points for coming up with such a crazy idea out of left field and running with it.