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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5287098" data-attributes="member: 463">Thanks Nagol, yes that all tallies pretty closely with my experience (except that most male PCs would run a mile from the 'sweet girl from the village', sadly) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That's definitely been my experience; well established male PCs will often look to settle down and marry, whether for love or sometimes for politics.  Examples I can recall from my campaign:The PC deity Thrin fell in love with the high-level NPC hero Reesha, last survivor of a group of heroes who had called him through the Stargate to save her world Werskara from the Wolfen.  After the defeat of the Wolfen they married and she currently resides with him in Asgard.  The romance angle was completely unplanned by me as GM.The PC Elven Archmage Elaith, long believing he was almost the last of his kind, discovered that the elven homeland Alfheim still survived, but was under attack by the Mabden.  He met a high level female elven Paladin of Alfheim and, as I had expected, courted and married her.Less romantically, the PC High King Sigurd Ravneskjold, Warlord of Trafalgis married the Princess Sylvana, after rescuing her from the evil Priest Kings, in order to secure a political union of their kingdoms.All of these events came very close to the end of these characters' careers as active PCs.  Edit:  Also in all these cases the courtship was highly abstracted AIR, little or no in-character roleplay.</blockquote>

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