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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3075275" data-attributes="member: 29014">Right on!  Properly played romance can be highly entertaining for the whole party and really help drive the story elements home.  For example:At one point in one of my games, the PC Knight was in love with an NPC lady and went on a quest to prove himself against a rival NPC Knight, but to make the love triangle more complicated, he was also mutually in love with his cohort who is also his herald and also secretly (neither of them know this) his sister separated at birth.  Meanwhile, the lady's best friend (NPC, greater grimalkin that can do both humanoid and animal forms) is in love with the knight's best friend, a young roguish nobleman (PC), though she is somewhat shy about it and generally expresses her feelings by challenging him to duels or stealing English muffins (the nobleman created a masked alter ego for himself called 'The Muffin Avenger' after he figured out that he could buy English muffins for 1 copper each and amassed vast quantities of them).  Finally, the party barbarian is in love with a fey demigoddess who appeared once to give a clue to the party, and he also wants to find his mother who was turned into a deer and trapped in a phasing invisible tower, leading him to become a Prestige Bard/Virtuoso.  There is also a rivalry between the nobleman (who isn't aware of the grimalkin's attentions) and the party's ranger with 8 Charisma in which they both try to hit on random Charismatic NPCs, failing to comic effects (a duel is typically involved, and since the Ranger is Favoured Enemy Human, he always wins, but then his 8 Charisma doesn't back up his strength of arms).  Meanwhile, the knight's new cohort is in love with a noblewoman who is actually a valkyrie running from her powerful father, so she pretends to be his sister, and the knight PC angered his lady due to philandering with his sister and wound up being bound and replaced in an elaborate ruse.This campaign has atypically high levels of romance, but it drives the point home that romance can really help coalesce and reinforce the plot.</blockquote>

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