Lord Pendragon
First Post
Relationships are a part of life, even if you don't RP the particulars (since it's rarely interesting for the other party members while you're doing so, setting aside any awkwardness regarding PC versus player/DM sexuality.)
Our current game has two relationships.
Our human ranger is married to an orc. One of our party members is the warlord of the orc nation, and an orc female came to him asking permission to mate with the ranger. The orc thought that was a fantastic idea and granted it. The ranger was very intimidated by the orc woman, flustered that his friend had somehow authorized the whole thing, and before he could blink, married.
Since we are out adventuring, he doesn't see his wife much, which most of us believe he takes as a blessing.
Our gnome druid just got married last session. The local innkeeper in our base-of-operations frontier town began propositioning her a while back. There was never a huge amount of RP involved in it. Occasionally the innkeeper would send her gifts. Sometimes she would spend any downtime visiting him, etc. No direct RP, though a lot of statements of intent. Eventually he proposed and the PC accepted.
I think this strikes the perfect balance between wallowing in sexuality and excising it from the game. Love and sex are part of the human condition. It feels alien to try and create characters for which these things do not exist. At the same time, role-playing romantic or sexual encounters (in the D&D sense,) is weird and uncomfortable. So we try and hew to a middle path.
Our current game has two relationships.
Our human ranger is married to an orc. One of our party members is the warlord of the orc nation, and an orc female came to him asking permission to mate with the ranger. The orc thought that was a fantastic idea and granted it. The ranger was very intimidated by the orc woman, flustered that his friend had somehow authorized the whole thing, and before he could blink, married.
Since we are out adventuring, he doesn't see his wife much, which most of us believe he takes as a blessing.
Our gnome druid just got married last session. The local innkeeper in our base-of-operations frontier town began propositioning her a while back. There was never a huge amount of RP involved in it. Occasionally the innkeeper would send her gifts. Sometimes she would spend any downtime visiting him, etc. No direct RP, though a lot of statements of intent. Eventually he proposed and the PC accepted.
I think this strikes the perfect balance between wallowing in sexuality and excising it from the game. Love and sex are part of the human condition. It feels alien to try and create characters for which these things do not exist. At the same time, role-playing romantic or sexual encounters (in the D&D sense,) is weird and uncomfortable. So we try and hew to a middle path.
