Sex and the Single Adventurer

[National Acrobat]

Oh yeah, that stuff is great for plot hooks. There are 3 of us that rotate Dming in our group and all of us use any piece of a character's history and actions that can affect game play. I had an elf once in a forgotten realms campaign that spent the night with a human in a town once and several years later after I became a wealthy adventurer, she shows up with junior, etc.

The most memorable, and argueably mean instance was during our Night Below campaign. My character had met, courted and married a young lady in Milbourne, since it was our base and the campaign takes a long time, you spend oodles of time there. Once, while we were well into the campaign, the Mind Flayers came to Milbourne while it was dark. We were down in the Underdark. The mind flayers captured my PC's wife, read her mind and found out that was our base. They wiped out the whole town, except for my wife and child. They eventually fled. We returned to the surface to find nothing.

 

[hammymchamham]

IMC the monk is that type of charecter, likes to find women in the local bars, the first session he (after 3 unsuccesful tries) found a willing participant who ended up being the Mayors daughter (predetermined before his attampt to woo her). Its nice cause I can use that as a plot hook for the next adventure

 

[megamania]

Yup.

Further more, a 20 on a d20 ment a child was concieved. Since the PC left town two days later he is unaware of this fact. Someday I'll bring it up seeing at how he now owns / runs a popular casino in a fast growing adventurers town.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

One of our players picked up a nasty lycanthropic STD...
...and another keeps getting a 'special discount' with a local sorceress.

The dwarf character is actively questing for a proper wife at present.

These things happen.

Elves are pretty chaste in our games too. Wonder how common that is...

 

[Hand of Evil]

For every moment of passion, there are ten mistakes. My players watch themselves because I am an evil DM. It is not just the chance of VD but the chance of a child.

To me every action there is a reaction.

 

[El Seso]

Romance comes into play in our games, although we've always kept things tastefull. Discussion of whether a PC gets "laid" is discussed outside of game. The only time it comes up is when we find out that an NPC is with child.
It's always amazed me that we're not more open in game about this kinda thing, since we're almost entirely made up of guys!

 

[EricNoah]

Folks, while the topic of romance in D&D is quite appropriate, please keep in mind that there are minors who frequent these forums. Please keep your language and innuendos family friendly.

 

[DM_Matt]

I tihnk that romance can add sometihng to the game, but I've never been in a game where the sex was "on screen."

I haven't seen many one night stands, perhaps because poeple I have gamed with consciously or subconsciously want to be anytihng BUT the immature, sexually repressed nerds that stereotypically play RPGs.

There wer elong-term relationships and even love triangles, but nothing raunchy in public. A by-prodeuct of the fact that what exactly happened behind closed doors was not explicitly stated is that consequences dont happen either. Even if it is assumed that "sometihng" happened, if a DM springs it on th eplayer, the lack of detail does not preclude use of those herbs in the FRCS or spells that have similar effects

 

[Ace]

My Cleric character, a travelling protector type has occasional off screen daliences with prostitutes but thats about it as far as romance goes in the games I am in

I think we are too busy hacking and killing stuff to get any nookie

 

[Teflon Billy]

I don't think "get laid" is worded well. IMO

I knew what he meant. "Have sexual relations" or "engage in sexual intercourse" sound so sterile.

Getting laid? That's what my player's PC's do