Weddings in RPGs

[RichGreen]

Hi,

One of the PCs in my long-running Parsantium campaign is marrying an NPC next session.

Has anyone roleplayed a PC-NPC wedding before? Any top tips on fun things to happen or suggestions for a fantasy wedding ceremony? The bride and groom are dragonborn and worshippers of Bahamut.

Cheers


Rich

 

[Minigiant]

There is a 95% chance a large battle happens before, during, or after the wedding of a PC and and NPC if the plot is not resolved.

The other 5% are kidnappings, demonic reveals, mass paranioa over a possible fight, or loose end tying before an expected battle.

It is just an excuse for DMs (and video game designers) to attack you without your good gear.

Be sure to describe how bloody their good wedding clothes get. Few things are as funny as a player roleplaying how mad their PC is that their nice clothes has blood on it.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

Clearly some evil forces should try to disrupt the wedding. Preferably a long running foe, or maybe forces of Tiamat.

 

[Jester David]

Take a page from sitcom weddings and do it as a comedy of errors.
Clothing problems, scheduling SNAFUSs, jealous exes, drunk inlaws, and the like.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Do these dragonborn belong to an organization, such as an order? I could picture dozens of paladins (or priests, or whatever) in attendance. Even unarmed, that's likely to deter attackers, and depending on the order (and the wishes of the bride and groom) may be armed anyway.

If I was an adventurer, I'd certainly let my adventuring buddies carry their weapons. Maybe not armor, but certainly weapons.

There should be a comedy of errors. Few wedding are perfect, after all.

 

[RichGreen]

Do these dragonborn belong to an organization, such as an order? I could picture dozens of paladins (or priests, or whatever) in attendance. Even unarmed, that's likely to deter attackers, and depending on the order (and the wishes of the bride and groom) may be armed anyway.

Yes, both bride and groom are members of the Platinum Knights, a chivalrous order of paladins and clerics.

The other thing I perhaps should have said is that the person playing the PC bride is retiring her character in favour of her black sheep sister, a sorcerer, with possible connections to Tiamat. The new PC will definitely turn up at the wedding, perhaps with enemies in tow.

 

[Bluenose]

Let's see, things that have happened at RPG weddings with my characters in attendance:

Fights - either a coincidental attack by enemies aimed at the settlement, a deliberate attempt to disrupt the wedding, or a quarrel between two of the guests - the last one happened at a wedding intended to resolve a feud between two families, and we probably shouldn't have had the two angriest family members from each side along.

Things going wrong - damage to clothes, buildings, dignity, food, sacrificial offerings not being accepted, guests getting lost, priests getting lost, property getting lost

Wierdness - prophecies get spoken (this happened when a familiar started speaking prophecy at one wedding, the familiar being a hawk that couldn't speak this was considered significant), the bride turns into a bird and flies off, all the cutlery tarnished (silver cutlery, and people familiar with a certain Runequest cult will know what that meant), the groom's father turns up (and he'd been missing for twenty years), a god attends (only a minor one, to be fair

Thinking about this, some weddings had several of these things happen. It seems particularly prevalent when I've played in Glorantha.

 

[RichGreen]

Let's see, things that have happened at RPG weddings with my characters in attendance:

Fights - either a coincidental attack by enemies aimed at the settlement, a deliberate attempt to disrupt the wedding, or a quarrel between two of the guests - the last one happened at a wedding intended to resolve a feud between two families, and we probably shouldn't have had the two angriest family members from each side along.

Things going wrong - damage to clothes, buildings, dignity, food, sacrificial offerings not being accepted, guests getting lost, priests getting lost, property getting lost

Wierdness - prophecies get spoken (this happened when a familiar started speaking prophecy at one wedding, the familiar being a hawk that couldn't speak this was considered significant), the bride turns into a bird and flies off, all the cutlery tarnished (silver cutlery, and people familiar with a certain Runequest cult will know what that meant), the groom's father turns up (and he'd been missing for twenty years), a god attends (only a minor one, to be fair

Thinking about this, some weddings had several of these things happen. It seems particularly prevalent when I've played in Glorantha.

Strange things ALWAYS happen in Glorantha!

Does your username indicate support from Birmingham City FC?

 

[RichGreen]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far, guys!

 

[S'mon]

The wedding in my Yggsburgh campaign went off without a hitch. The drunken midnight 'ogre hunt' by the groom's party afterwards did not go so well though, since the ogre turned out to be a troll...