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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5989688" data-attributes="member: 75065">As both DM and player I tend to stay away from it, but it still comes up.When I DM my wife loves to play flirty characters, and up until now I have thwarted all of her attempts to bed anyone she has met. It became a standing joke actually, as she took over her brother-in-law's character who was originally male. After going through a phase of being androgynous, it eventually became female as she didn't really want to play a male character. As she had a low charisma score to boot, I decided to just play it that everyone who met her assumed she was a man. It made sense and it was fun. So it made for very entertaining situations when she would hit on any and everyone, but alas to no avail as they politely excused themselves from her company, calling her "Sir" all the while. But no romantic relationships have ever developed between PCs or NPCs while I've been DMing. As a player on the other hand it has occurred. Accidently. And I say accidently because it is something I'd most definitely not seek out to include in a game intentionally. [sblock=Amusing anecdote, so I'll share.] My PC had picked up a couple of love potions for very very cheap from a hag in a local village at the beginning of the adventure. It was something I sought out and he obliged allowing me to find it. I paid something like 10 gp so while my PC thought it was real, I myself was pretty sure I had been scammed.Later on during the adventure, we were on a mission to rescue the King's son when we discovered that it was his sister that had kidnapped him and planned to perform a ritual on him that would would wipe him from existence and even from living memory, leaving her as direct heir to the throne. She was under the influence of the BBEG, and so after we foiled the murder, beat down her minions and restrained her, preparing to return her to her father we ran into a bind... Well to say the least, she had quite a potty mouth and swore black and blue that we had no proof and that she would tell her father that we had mistreated her wrongfully, demanding that he chop off our heads. So, with nothing to lose, and with little hope of success, I forced her to drink the Love Potion. For good measure I made her drink both. We couldn't be sure if she was bluffing us but her attitude changed very quickly and she became pliant and fawning towards me. She quickly agreed to cooperate and apologise for her wicked ways.We later found out that when my DM rolled to see if they had any effect or not he rolled two consecutive natural 20s. So he decided they were not only genuine, but that she was now completely, genuinely, permanently in love with my PC.Now, my PC was a fighter, not a lover. He had a very low charisma. So as we became the king's loyal knights, he suffered greatly in the face of her affections, always saying the wrong thing or bringing her completely unromantic gifts (which she loved! Eg. one of the skulls of these undead spidery thingies we had been battling). Things were shaping towards a formal courtship blessed by the king himself when I moved countries which of course ended my participation in the game. It was very fun and sweet, and I don't think it was uncomfortable for the other players, as they were able to join in on it and make light of my characters complete ineptitude with women and even set me up for situations they knew my character would find incredibly uncomfortable and embarrassing.[/sblock]So, to resume, it's certainly not something I deliberately include very often in my games, or deliberately seek out as a player, but I think it can be fun if it is included in a way that doesn't make other players uncomfortable.</blockquote>

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