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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 3364227" data-attributes="member: 17012">I've only played in one group where such things were considered weird or uncomfortable.  The rest of them were played out, no problems.  We never had any R-rated scenes or anything like that; if/when it came time for two characters to get intimate, we had a fade-to-black or the "camera pans up to the candle next to the bed" and that was that.I've roleplayed romances between PCs and NPCs, as well as between two PCs, many times.  In all but one occassion, the other person (player or DM) was also male.  There was no discomfort or awkwardness that I could discern.  In fact, those times when members of the opposite sex roleplayed romance, it was more likely to turn awkward than if they were the same sex.  It's too easy to read real-world intentions into things sometimes.</blockquote>