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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 5704357" data-attributes="member: 5834">reThis is a game where people kill and die regularly and people shrug it off like it is nothing when in real life if such things happened, they would probably be shattered or frightened into near catatonia. I have only had one gamer in the entire time I've been gaming react with a deep, intense emotional response. It was to a situation where he was captured and his woman was killed. He nearly flew across the table and attacked me as DM. It was great.But that's one time in 30 years of gaming. I would say most people do not want to spend their time trying to deeply explore their character's emotional nature. Most players react logically rather than emotionally to emotional situations. They suffer a tragedy and they turn to the bottle for a day and then it's over. Or they say their character cries, but they're not going to play long-term sorrow or confusion of the kind you seem to want to see.Mainly because that isn't fun and most people still play for fun. Who wants to sit around the table playing Byron the Wizard in love with Kothar the Barbarian with Byron knowing his love will never be returned because Kothar comes from an extremely masculine culture and might kill Byron if he found out Byron had such feelings for him. Then Byron charms or uses illusions to seduce Kothar, who eventually finds out, then your entire party is destroyed. And quite possibly if the player of Kothar is strongly heterosexual himself, he is probably angry and never coming back to the table to game again.You're just asking for trouble exploring deeply emotional material of any kind at most tables. You would have to have a special group of players more interested in acting and psychology than playing an RPG.</blockquote>

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