Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 423029" data-attributes="member: 99">This is an interesting topic to me.  Especially since I've recently been running a solo campaign for my wife.  Although she likes romantic movies as much as the next woman, she hasn't pressured me to put more of it into the game (and so far there really hasn't been any romance involved in this campaign).  Although I try not to be heavy handed with the romance if that isn't what the players want, they sometimes create it for themselves (even when it isn't a focus for the player or the character).I'll cite three examples from recent campaigns I've run:1) The party is to travel to meet with leaders from several barbarian tribes about uniting forces to face an onrushing orcish army.  While at the negotiations, the party Druid has a torrid fling with a female Shaman from one of the tribes.  After a couple of months of conducting guerilla attacks on the orcs to slow their advance, the party returns to the barbarian tribes for the final defense of the collected tribes.  That's when the Druid finds out that not only is the Shaman pregnant, she has been taken as a wife by her tribe's chieftain.  Now the Druid has a lot more riding on the coming battle than he did before.  What if the child is his?  Should he try to keep the Shaman from participating in the battle since she could get killed?  Should he encourage her husband to be on the front lines so that he might get killed and be out of the way of their romance?  What if the husband is mortally wounded and the Druid is the only one with the magic to heal him?  Tough questions abound.2) The same party goes on to further adventures.  When the party Rogue/Sorcerer (a human) is killed by Kobolds, the Druid reincarnates him and he comes back as an Elf.  They return to their home town where the Rogue/Sor has a girlfriend.  But he is afraid to let her see him like he is.  Will she reject him because he is physically different from the man she loved?  Will he be rejected by the local Elves because his is not really one of them (culturally)?  What will his parents say?3)  Different campaign.  One player is running an assassin who works for a crime family.  He is given the assignment of killing the son of one of the boss of another crime family.  The son has a girlfriend who is a high class prostitute.  The assassin visits the brothel where she works and manages (while employing her "services") to milk some information about where she and the mob boss's son live.  He sneaks in with the intention of killing both of them (him as the target and her as a witness).  But while he is waiting for them to arrive, he finds her diary and discovers that she has been forced into her lifestyle by the son of the mob boss.  She arrives back at the appartment first, but the assassin cannot bring himself to kill her.  Instead, against all reason, he tells her to get out of town and never come back.  He risked her informing on him for the sake of preserving the one tender spot left on his otherwise calloused heart.</blockquote>

Verification