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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oversquid" data-source="post: 5734690" data-attributes="member: 6684394">As a player who played a romancer type character in the recent past, I've noticed that players don't get to get so annoyed with romancing the NPCs when it adds to the story. To get into more detail with that, I'll begin by saying that a romance/relationship is a great way to see how someone works, and where it is someone comes from. What I'm getting is that if you do have romance situations, it has to actually get somewhere, be it in perhaps changing the PC's outlook, or overcoming something bothering him/her, or perhaps to reveal stuff about the PC that would otherwise have been unknown to say a few examples. It can't just be hopping around in the bedsheets exchanging each other's fluids, all that does is test the patience of the players and the DM, and it impresses no one.Even then, be careful with romances, as a situation that involves a romance tends to take up a good chunk of game time, and it is especially nerve wracking to the other players who most of the time aren't interesting in your wooing the bar-maid.Like what someone suggested before, the Book of Erotic Fantasy does go over how to handle sexual situations in a game in an adult manner, and I would suggest going through it at least once.How I handle "Adult Content" is that I go and tell the players beforehand, "Would you like the sexual themes being of a PG, PG-13, or R rating?" PG being perhaps the odd innuendo here and there, and R being nudity, but no detail during sex. I have no G rating, because I'm too crude to not have sexual innuendo, and nothing above R, because I feel that if its anything above that, the game should centralize around sexual escapades, and I don't want to DM a game like that. The most I do even on an R-rated setting is, "You guide the barmaid upstairs into your room, and then close the door behind you. The next morning, the barmaid leaves your room with a contented face, while you look to your side to see your money-purse is missing."I don't need to say at all that the character and the barmaid are getting jiggy-wit-it, because I've already implied it above. Also, most of the time, the players are just a bunch of guys sitting in a circle, and talking in detail about how to grab the elven princess' chest is more than a little awkward, at least in all the circles I've seen.I hope this all made sense...</blockquote>

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