PC on PC action!

[Lead Luteist]

I almost always end up a James Bond like character.
So far, the last one (in Star Wars RPG) made a Gather Info check to get the holo-number of flight attendants he had saved from pirate scum. After he got a natural 20 on the Gather Info (we also happened to using a critical success/failure skill rule. He got a confirmation of 20)
We decided he got slightly more then the girl's holo-number...

 

[Kryndal Levik]

Two characters in my campaign "hooked up;" no details were shared. However, I was secretly rolling for pregnancy each time (and being very generous- think I was using a 3% or 4% chance each time), and, lo and behold- the human mage in the party ended up pregnant. Ended up being a GREAT story-starter, and ultimately became a key part of the campaign storyline.

 

[TimSmith]

This actually did occur in the last major campaign I DMed.

One of the characters (female friend of mine) was trying to find out why her fiance never showed up for the wedding. The other character (my husband hehehe) was adventuring for the fun of it. They found that their characters had a lot of reason to be attracted to each other (both very charismatic characters who survived a lot together along with the rest of the party). As the female bard grew more bitter about her fiance, she grew more attracted to the male sorceror, yet played the tension very well. By the time she had decided that she was really in love with the sorceror and hated her fiance, I reintroduced the fiance on a more permanent basis (she had run across him a few times before resulting in greater and greater emotional turmoil) and enjoyed the chaos as she battled her recovering feelings for her fiance when he told her the "truth" of everything he had done and the reasons for it and her new feelings for the sorceror (feelings her fiance was quite aware of for certain reasons of reading her personal journals hehehe)(his moment of confession left her useless at work for the entire day as we handled that one over email between sessions).

By the time her fiance died at the end of the game, I had her bawling (the player AND the character), and being comforted in the arms of the sorceror who was ordered to take care of her and watch over her by a fiance that knew he would never be able to truly be with her again (him being an undead vampire and all before he sacrificed himself so he could at least die with the memory of her loving him instead of despising him).

It was absolutely beautiful, and I would do it again at any point. All of my players found the experience very rewarding and not uncomfortable at all.

Of course, such a thing would not have happened if any players had been uncomfortable with it! Hehe...I felt that everyone played their characters quite maturely, and the conflict and final results over the 3 1/2 year period will be remembered in our group for all time.

I love making players cry. :-D

Wow- you obviously had great players, great DM'ing skill and the fates on your side. I'm glad it worked out so well for you and your group. I think if others tried such a story line, there are a million things that could rapidly spoil things, either in-game or out of game. I don't think I would dare try it, even if I could pull it off!

This sort of enduring group memory of a "classic" camapign is what we all aspire to, though- I salute you and can only wish that I lived in your neighbourhood and could wheedle my way into your game

I suppose this is the sort of thing the original poster is looking for....

 

[Zweihänder]

Yes, as a matter of fact. Not in a truly intense way, but two of my players always seem to play small gay things, and end up (mostly through my inference) doing the hoo-chah.

Also, a PC of mine once got pregnant. After she was raped.

By a LICH.

T_T

 

[Clueless]

PC Triangle: Florian, Fyrehowl, both interested in Clueless - with the intended interest (Clueless) utterly oblivious to the interest of both ladies for quite a bit of time. We had fun with a lot of in character jokes and silliness - though certainly never got in depth in game. (Nor did the characters ever end up dating for that matter.) Was very fun though.

 

[STARP_JVP]

All I can say regarding the thread title is - 600 + viewings in less than 48 hours. You can't say it didn't get attention.

 

[James Heard]

Stranger things have happened at my gaming table I suppose, not that I'm particularly proud of them. Seriously, at some point you're just either entranced by the scary train wreck happening or embarrassed to be in the same room with everyone. Once you've played D&D with naked people your tolerance goes up and your desire to repeat goes down I suppose. As long as you don't have to wash the dice it's all good.

 

[S'mon]

I think your goal is totally reasonable - how many fantasy/sf/genre movies _don't_ have at least one romance among the protagonists? As GM I'm not very good at encouraging this, you see it in PBEMs a lot (except D&D PBEMs, maybe) but PC-PC romance is very rare in most tabletop RPGs I think. PC-NPC romance can work well with the right player. I played a swashbuckling D&D game a while back and the two PCs were flirtatious in a Moonlighting, long-running-tv-series kind of way, it fit the genre very well and added a lot to the game. In the Conan campaign I ran the female PCs quickly acquired NPC boyfriends, too. Only in D&D do I see players studiously avoid _any_ romance.

Edit: Although in my high level game the 19th level elf Wizard PC did recently acquire an 18th level elf Paladin girlfriend, which was nice.

 

[Romnipotent]

In an older game from 2003/2004 we had two PC's in a game engaged, intending to marry and have a family. We fast fowarded over the spring where I (a fabricate elf wizard) had built a town and "factories" for an economy, and all the ammenities.
Now, these two players are close friends, they slept in the same bed whenever they crashed here. Nothing happened though, I know it. But the two guys knew what was in character and out of character, its just I only had a single spare bed. Most of the time one would stay up all night on the PC.

I'm currently also playing in a game where PC's regularly shack up with each other, often all at once, to release tension and save on room charges. Now, please note theres no cross-playing either. So its all the better. As for pregnancy, well fortunately most of the races we are happen to be incompatable.

I intend to allow my players such freedoms, and non descript encounters which could result in ladden cargos. Just need them to understand its nothing filthy if they dont think of the other player... because then it will never happen...

 

[Aeric]

I've played in a couple of games where PCs were involved romantically with one another.

The first time I saw it was in a group where two guys and their girlfriends brought their real life relationships into the game. Nothing special, no big whoop.

I've played a couple of characters who were starting to get involved with other PCs, but it never really went anywhere, usually because the campaign ended before it could.

There were two times that it actually did happen, though.

The first time was in a Vampire game. There was only one other player, who was/is my best friend. Our characters got together by the end of the game, but only because I was kind of pushing the issue. It worked within the context of the story, but it wasn't particularly satisfying in terms of storytelling.

The other time was in a Mekton game. One of the other PCs was determined to get involved with my character, meanwhile my character was seeing an NPC. It was a fun little love triangle, although the two PCs got together in the end, natch.

I've never been in a game where things got graphic, though. There's no real point to that.