Space Romance Movies
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Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Referencing back to the previous issue of the awkwardness of players' avatars' intimate relationships; it's easier to allow it to play out third hand through NPCs, even if you get someone else on the table to directly control them (the NPCs). And of course, same sex marriage.
Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
An NPC is controlled by the Referee, and here's where the awkwardness comes in. Most players are male, there are a few females, but get a room full of RPGers and chances are most of them will be male. As a referee, I'm not very good at playing female roles, I can get them to shoot a gun, but all this lovey dovey stuff is a bit embarrassing, I can't role play that very well.Condottiere said:
I would need a visual aid like this one to get across what a female character might look like, to role play her in a romantic situation with a PC is well, a little embarrassing, easy to think about how it would go, but in front of other players. Usually I say, you do your business and none months later you have a child with her, and then it gets interesting, 5 terms later you have an adult character who can inherit the estate or part of the business of your current PC characters. Has anyone ever done that, raised a family in the Traveller setting before? How has that worked out?
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Some guys I role-play with are very good at role-playing female NPCs. They tend to be very good referees. I'm more like George Lucas or Paul Verhoeven or James Cameron though when it comes to role-playing females. I just slap a female body on a male character. See Dr. Girlfriend.
The guys that can referee Traveller really good never have a problem with female NPCs having relations with male or female PCs, etc. But then, the sex scenes are fast-forwarded through and faded to black, and all that. The next "shot" in the game session is everyone up from their sleeptubes and in the common lounge for breakfast.
The guys that can referee Traveller really good never have a problem with female NPCs having relations with male or female PCs, etc. But then, the sex scenes are fast-forwarded through and faded to black, and all that. The next "shot" in the game session is everyone up from their sleeptubes and in the common lounge for breakfast.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
At the end of the playing session, you have to be able to look each other in the eyes.
alex_greene
Guest
Assuming your paramour is from a species which has two eyes.Condottiere said:
Reynard
Emperor Mongoose
I recently played a female aslan in Pirates of Drinax. Her background history wasn't Polly Purebread with her years as a crewmember on an otherwise all (human) male ship of pirates. Her tour on the next pirate vessel of all males, including an aslan male and I played up a subtle sexiness. She was not adverse to sensuality but has the claws to keep it civil.
Science fiction stories including RPGs can have romance as plot and theme without it going to porn. Watch scifi movies carefully for more sexual interactions rather than giving each other the Look, it can be frequent and low key yet set a flow important throughout the story. Players are also improvisational actors that have leeway to define their character in the realm of the game including interaction with other characters. That's one of many ways to build a campaign beyond gunfights.
Science fiction stories including RPGs can have romance as plot and theme without it going to porn. Watch scifi movies carefully for more sexual interactions rather than giving each other the Look, it can be frequent and low key yet set a flow important throughout the story. Players are also improvisational actors that have leeway to define their character in the realm of the game including interaction with other characters. That's one of many ways to build a campaign beyond gunfights.
