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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eeralai" data-source="post: 2138924" data-attributes="member: 15008"><p>Firstly, I think it says something about society that people are far more comfortable with mock violence than mock romance.  However, when the average gamer comes home to the spouse and says "We killed a dragon tonight," the spouse will probably say something along the lines of "That's nice honey."  But if the average gamer comes home and says "My character got it on with so and so's character" I can imagine the spouse raising the eyebrows with an agressive, "Excuse me?"  So while I think romance is fine in RPG's with a group that can handle it, I definitely see Fusangite's point about social acceptability. RPG's are a lot about making characters that do things you will never do in real life.  Now some things people would never really want to do like being touched by a wraith or feeling dragon breath, but there are a lot of things in RPG's that would be awesome to do in real life and people can get a cathartic thrill from it.  If one of those things is starting a romance, I can see spousal/SO jealousy.  In the end it could be a great exploration, but it also could cause problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>