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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5287077" data-attributes="member: 23935">Looking back at my experience as a player and as a DM, it’s hard to find specific trends may exist.  The situation comes up relatively infrequently and from a variety of causes.  I’m going to focus on long-term romances rather than other forms of interaction (roll in the hay, “we may all die tonight”, “it’s in the best interests of both our houses”, etc.)I have noticed a slight preponderence of romances to include a female player.  I haven’t really noticed a difference in preferences caused by player gender.  I have seen some differences based upon character gender.  Players of male PCs typically look for complementary rather than competitive power.  They seem more drawn to non-adventuring partners with wealth/political power/access to restricted resources than other adventuring types with mobile careers.  There is the occasional “sweet girl in a small village”, but that is rarer and is usually partially instigated by the NPC through plot-driven contrivance (rescue adventure, continual interaction and some obvious hero worship, et al.).  The players of male PCs tend to be more open to romance options if the PC has a base of operation, developed an emotional attachment to people or region, and/or have developed some form of success measured against the milieu.  Players of female PCs (lesbian ninja strippers aside) will more typically respond to overtures than instigate them.  The few I’ve seen instigated have been “experienced female introduces inexperienced male” scenarios -- paladin targets are particularly popular for this.  Favourable responses have been seen from most “appropriate” suitors – appropriate age, relative success, etc.  Often the level of physical prowess matters for the NPC.  A prince of the realm is OK, but a dashing prince of the realm is far better.</blockquote>

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