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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ave Rage" data-source="post: 1053471" data-attributes="member: 5483">A while back I posted about my first time as 'GM' and how my group was extremely powerful but were defeated by smart enemies using simple tactics.We've played around 4 or so games now and things are great.  I didn't know if I was going to be a good GM but I'm rockin' it.  All my players are extremely happy with the stories/challenges I'm putting forth (as well as the maps I draw) and they're all getting the hang of the game, even adding personality to their characters.  Then we hit last night's game.  Everything was going good until I introduced the barbarian half-orc's love interest.  This wouldn't seem odd except the barb has 4 cha.  They meet at the pie-eating contest that he was hosting (they went to a fair) and she eventually wins the competition.  He says he'll meet her later so she can claim her prize.  After a few more events (wrestling/boxing  bunch of different non-fighting stuff as that's what they were mainly doing the previous games and I wanted to mix things up) they settled down for the concert that the fair was hosting.  As the curtains pull back, they see the lead singer, guitar player, drummer and finally the bass guy.  The bass guy just happens to be the pie-guy too so the barb's man is a rocker (In real life the girl who plays the barb half orc's life is all rock so she's stoked)  He leans down during a solo and she plants him a kiss.  Once she does this, the singer stops the show and yells at the guy for choosing the ugliest girl (which seems to be a reacuring event for the guy) and ruining the show.  Changing his guitar into an axe the bard walks over and kills the pie-guy, ending the more than likely only chance for the barb to hook up with a guy who's somewhat normal.She goes into a rage and a battle ensues with the party fighting the rest of the band as well as the security guards.  The game ends with them looting the backstage and running off.  Everyone goes home content with my game.  Now we get to the point of my post after all that backstory.The next day I find out that while the girl liked the story, it has her all depressed that she doesn't have a boyfriend/loved one either.  She's extremely pretty/smart and all so she has no trouble getting a guy, she just hasn't found the one for her or something to that extent.  So now I'm kinda scarred to use any kind of emotion in my game.  I'm tempted to just keep it hack and slash but the whole awkward romance between the two added a ton to my game.  I just have no idea how tossing in different elements of real life will effect my players.Now the inevitable "Has this ever happened to you/what did you do?" part of my post.  I just don't know how to add real life elements to the story without the possibility of triggering these other things.  Any comments would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.</blockquote>

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