PCs in love -- gender and the NPC connection

[Driddle]

Brokeback Dungeon?

An unemployed half-orc fighter looking for a little extra income hooks up with an elf ranger keeping his eye on a flock of owlbears in a little dungeon up in the mountains. They discover true love ... Comedy and angst ensue ...

 

[Dragonbait]

I've played a PC that was happily married with a kid. It was background dressing, and nothing romantic or sexual ever came up outside of G-rated family interaction.

That's it. As a GM, I've seen PC/PC relationships (hetero, homo, and every-which-way-sexual). As a player, I've seen PC/NPC relationships. I have no problems with it. Yet I remain out of that, especially since I am often playing a weird character (a kobold, a goblin, a living suit of armor, y'know, really sexy stuff) So my answer is No.

Brokeback Dungeon?

My Star Wars GM had a bar called the Brokeback Bantha... He did not want it to be a gay bar and did not intend for it to cause any reaction or long recitations of lines from various movies... He clearly does not know his players very well. We made him regret making a bar with that name. "Jack nasty."

 

[JohnSnow]

Brokeback Dungeon?

An unemployed half-orc fighter looking for a little extra income hooks up with an elf ranger keeping his eye on a flock of owlbears in a little dungeon up in the mountains. They discover true love ... Comedy and angst ensue ...

I smell sequel!

Somebody call Ang Lee. We know he'll do genre pics for a buck - look at The Hulk.

 

[JohnSnow]

My Star Wars GM had a bar called the Brokeback Bantha... He did not want it to be a gay bar and did not intend for it to cause any reaction or long recitations of lines from various movies... He clearly does not know his players very well. We made him regret making a bar with that name. "Jack nasty."

Oh c'mon! What about "The Blue Sahuagin?" There's gotta be a joke there somewhere...

Duh-du-du-du-du-dunnnnnn...

 

[WayneLigon]

I can't say that I've ever had to ask specifically. The GM is going to know the orientation of my PC; if it's different from the assumed norm, I'll tell him. I've had a couple of gay PC's in the past, one of which had a brief relationship with an NPC architect. This being Call of Cthulhu, though, things didn't work out for long. Going mad and shooting up a restaurant because you're convinced they're serving you human flesh causes your love life to go downhill rapidly.

 

[reanjr]

I DM usually. Only one of my characters has been involved in a romance and it was heterosexual. Never had a homosexual player. Only one homosexual character, and that was a lawful evil character, so romance isn't exactly the right word for it.

 

[Hjorimir]

I've both DMed and played out romances in our RPGs. They've always been heterosexual because that is our preference.

Would I object to a homosexual relationship in a game I'm running? Honestly, probably because it bothers me and I think it would detract from my enjoyment of the game.

/shrug

I guess that will mark me as something of a pariah, but I have to stay true to myself and my beliefs first and foremost.

 

[Gold Roger]

My experience as DM was that there was next to no player interest for romance in my campaigns so far. I wouldn't be averse to PC/NPC realationships at all, as long as everyone is mature about it and there's a clear "fade to black" line.

For me as player it's similar. All but one of my PC's have been very unsuited for romances. One of those, a hart shelled but heart of gold avenger type was once approach by a PC but not all interested.

My one PC that could have been suited for romance would have been very interesting in it, but sadly he ended up in a one shot. He was a NG character whose prime goal was to create his own realm and a very tactical/manipulative/political thinker and even in that one session he was looking for some young upper class ladies he could woe to increase his status. He would have clearly used his romantical contacts, but being the good guy he was, he would have tried to be nice about it and would have been caught somewhere between guilt, actual atraction and drive to find an even more advantegous bride.

 

[Tequila Sunrise]

I haven't rped romances very often, but it was always fun when I did! I'm a guy; I once DMed for a male PC (played by a guy) that hit on a female NPC (not much came of it because of in-game restraints, though they did go on a date). I once played a lesbian PC, which was hysterical because she was a real "ladies' woman" who incessantly hit on women for personal reasons and shamelessly flirted with men to get what she wanted. I did become disapointed when it became apparent that the DM's assumption was that homosexual romances don't exist in fantasy (or maybe she just didn't feel inclined to rp a romance with me).

During one particular campaign, I almost instituted Random Romance Rolls (RRR for short). It would have been something like rolling a percentile each time a PC met an important NPC of eligable gender to see if one or both parties spontaneously fell in love in typical fantasy fashion. I never actually started using this idea because one player was flat-out against it and I got the idea that the others might have just been humoring me.

 

[arscott]

I often play rpgs at the friday night game club on campus. One of the GMs runs a game that's designed to be flexible and allow whatever players can make it to play. He'll usually make pre-generated characters for each campaign he runs--The regulars will have their own character, and the newcomers and intermitent players will be play one of the random pregens. At one point, this setup left me (a guy) playing a young and hotheaded castillian noblewoman in a 7th sea game. One of the other characters had a flaw that basically let the DM make the character fall in love, and the DM chose to make the other character fall in love w/ mine. That might have eventually gotten awkward, but that charcter ended up in the hands of a female player in the next couple sessions.