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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2138457" data-attributes="member: 463">I disagree, although maybe 'deficiency' is too strong a word.  I do think it's odd, anyway.  The source genre literature is always full of romance, avoiding it entirely in-game seems a strange thing to do _unless_ players & GM find it makes them uncomfortable.  BTW as GM I had experience of a player who was happy to have his PC have romances, but was such an excruciatingly awful RPer it made me as GM regret including them.I would equate being a good roleplayer with _ability_ to play out romantic scenes, or any other kind of scene.  Just as a good tactical gamer is good at fighting & winning combats within the rules framework, a good roleplayer is good at in-character acting.Did I say that?  I meant that I haven't seen it in games I GM, but when I've played (tabletop) my PCs have regularly had relations that could be called romantic with other PCs; not sex & marriage, but the genre-appropriate kind - Carter & O'Neill, Xena & Gabrielle, Han & Leia (in ep IV), that kind of thing.  In a 2-player 'buddy team' type swashbuckling game my male Rogue PC was always trying (and comically failing) to get the female Rogue PC into bed, while in another game my grim female fighter PC was deeply in Platonic (but 'romantic') love with another female fighter PC, in fact their relationship was perhaps the most compelling & dramatic I've seen in an RPG.  Perhaps it's noteable that both those games had female GMs and in both cases my PC's relationship was with a PC played by a female player, it might not have been possible with a male GM.</blockquote>

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