I'm a big sucker for romance, so I always enjoy it in the RP setting. What are some of your favorite D&D in-game romance for your characters, whether with another player character or an NPC?
For me, I've been having a lot of fun with my warlock being involved with a bard PC~
I played a 1/2 elf bard who got a girlfriend. She turned out to be a vampire; had to stake her. Another PC in the party married my bard's mom; he was possessed by a demon. My character's name was Birand the Lucky.
My Human Inquisitor in a romance with an NPC female Silver Dragon. Who evidently, had a previous relationship with the male Gold Dragon (PC) in our party.
My Human Inquisitor in a romance with an NPC female Silver Dragon. Who evidently, had a previous relationship with the male Gold Dragon (PC) in our party.
My Human Inquisitor in a romance with an NPC female Silver Dragon. Who evidently, had a previous relationship with the male Gold Dragon (PC) in our party.
In her early years my plucky young rogue, Allina Stormwind, found herself called to action and thrown into a misfit band of adventurers. In this group happened to be a very strong and not very talkative Barbarian, Arvine. A few months of danger, near death experiences, and long nights the two began to grow closer and very "friendly". After defeating a great and powerful evil the now Rugged Knight proposed to her favorite Barbarian. Six years later they find themselves answering the call of adventure once more, as far as they know all is well.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a romance, but during one lengthy journey through the Red Hand of Doom adventure my Halfling Bard/Dervish was used by a Giant as a... pleasure device once when I got stuck in a Dervish Dance.
Moral of the story: Don't get get too drunk while celebrating the days victory with and flirt with Giants.
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"Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about." - My Granddad
In her early years my plucky young rogue, Allina Stormwind, found herself called to action and thrown into a misfit band of adventurers. In this group happened to be a very strong and not very talkative Barbarian, Arvine. A few months of danger, near death experiences, and long nights the two began to grow closer and very "friendly". After defeating a great and powerful evil the now Rugged Knight proposed to her favorite Barbarian. Six years later they find themselves answering the call of adventure once more, as far as they know all is well.
After the time spent together as married adventurers, the barbarian wanted nothing to remind her of her drunken rage past. She kindly asked her wife to change her name, seeing that was the only option to fully commit to Allina. Now the barbarian is known as Sol Stormwind, the spell smasher.. friend to cybers.. and follower of Gorodon.
I was playing a zero-to-hero character in 3.5. he was a weresheep commoner named Merry, and he joined our Adventuring guild to try to help his family. Soon after, a weretiger bounty hunter named Serenity joined. After he got past the fear of her eating him, they became close, eventually becoming a couple. They are both very simple people, but are very cute together. Which makes the varied drama we create all the more fun...
I was Gm and our druid wanted to marry The next in line for the Role of God of Death's half brother. Well there was a marriage tournament and he had to fight the level 14 Artificer Mermaid princess . Well He rolled a nat 20 perception and saw she was stealing glances at one of Death's 5 sons . A sailor by the name Amami Bloodwel.
The druid between blows from her dragon creation made the plan with her to let her take a dive and loose if he would help her win his heart. The druid smacked her around until she went down and he won . He married the prince of hell and had Amami stay by the Merprincess' side until she stabilized.
His quote in our discord is ""I'm glad I'm a homewrecker, that shit cute!" - Will referring to the fact that Q stole Damien from Miranda and Now Miranda (a mermaid) has fallen in love with Amami (a sailor)
This was in a Pathfinder game - I played a human paladin of Iomedae named Chiemeka, and another player was an elf summoner named Rune - however, he'd homebrewed the class to make it a bit more like a warlock, and his eilodon (summoned spirit) was more like an infernal patron. We were playing a demon invasion campaign, which was particularly fun because it led to all sorts of "no good options" moral conundrums.
As the game progressed, and the party was put through the wringer again and again (at one point literally traveling to the Abyss), Chiemeka and Rune grew closer together. But there was a problem: in order to become more powerful, Rune ceded more and more of his body and soul to his infernal patron. He genuinely thought it was the only way he could help save the world; however, Chiemeka thought the sacrifice was too great - that the damage he was doing outweighed the good. It caused Chiemeka great pain to watch Rune slip further and further down this dark path, but she held onto the belief that he could be saved, and tried to convince him to renounce his infernal patron every chance she could.
Finally, quite late on in the game, the party was battling a particularly powerful demon lord. The demon lord, sensing the darkness in Rune, tried to sway him to betray the rest of the party and join the demon army as a lieutenant. However, Rune refused the offer - critically, he said, "I will never betray her.She is the reason I fight." The demon lord realized that Rune was referring to Chiemeka. During his next turn, he focused every. single. attack. on her. She was stabbed through with a dozen shadowy spears from every direction.
I tallied up the damage and said, "Uhhh guys? I'm dead. Like. Dead-dead." I honestly wasn't super upset because Chiemeka's whole deal was heroic sacrifice, so this would be a fun way to go.
"Wait!" said Rune's player. He fixed an intense stare on the GM. "I'd like to make a deal with my patron."
The GM grinned. "All right. Let's talk."
Rune eventually cut a deal with his infernal patron that traded the rest of his soul for Chiemeka's life. But when she was revived and learned what had happened, she was furious. Rune was, understandably, confused. "I brought you back to life!" he protested.
"I didn't ask you to," Chiemeka snapped back. "I've been ready to die for what's right my entire adult life! You should have known that, instead of acting out of selfishness."
After this argument, Chiemeka and Rune kept their distance from one another for some time, and each went to various other party members for emotional consolation. (Note: the conflict was entirely in-character; out of character, Rune's player and I were having a blast.) But they were still bound together, however involuntarily, by their mission, and they were both determined to see it through. They also both gained some outside perspective from their party-mates that led them to make some tentative attempts at reconnection. And Chiemeka still believed that Rune could be saved.
Then, after much hard work and strife, the final battle came - and though it was harrowing, the heroes were victorious. And once the rift to the Abyss was closed for good, and the demon invasion stopped, Rune's player said to the DM, "I'd like to remove my mask (the physical embodiment of his deal with the devil) and renege on my deal."
"You sure about that?" the DM said. "If you go back on your patron, he's going to hunt you down for the rest of your life. And if he catches you, he's dragging your ass to hell for eternal torment."
"I'm sure," said Rune's player. And so Chiemeka's faith in Rune's ultimate goodness was rewarded as he managed to finally reject the devilish ways he'd embraced for so long, even though the consequences would be great. And in the final scene of the campaign, they had their very first kiss, Bollywood style.
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"We're the perfect combination of expendable and unkillable!"
I asked my DM, at the time, to give my Human Fighter named Gray Thorncliffe a romantic relationship. I didn't ask for anything specific.
So then, Gray was given it in the form of a human barbarian named "Conina". I can already tell she has taken a serious liking to my character and then his heart skipped a beat. After meeting her for the first time, she pretty much joined the party in all their adventures. She was very supportive of Gray's views on doing the right thing and was often a comforting companion for when the dwarf, who was meant to be Neutral Good, keeps putting him down with his stereotypical love for gold. She took no shit from the dwarf!
Then, when the campaign was about to come to a close, the party was in the Underdark, and she proposed to Gray on the spot. I said "Yes!". But, of course, the mission was involving to stop a traitorous spellblade named Ragnar from summoning Balor into the material plane, as you can pretty well imagane, failiure was not an option! Not only did we have to save the world, but we also had to stay alive to see the wedding. And we succeded!
So, Gray told his grandmother, his only living family, the good news of his engagement, married Conina and they all lived happilly every after!
My Human Paladin, Niall Staerling (represented by the miniature in my avatar), was going through The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (an old D&D module from 1982) many years ago. During that adventure, the DM changed up the ending and allowed...well, don't read the paragraph below if you have not gone through that module and want the ending to be a surprise.
***SPOILERS***
Drelnza, the vampire daughter of the witch and necromancer Iggwilv, was imprisoned deep within the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. She was placed there as an eternal guardian to protect the massive treasure, and legendary magic items, amassed by her mother. Once the PCs entered Drelnza's area, the "Inner Sphere", she awakened from her slumber and tried to charm and kill the players. Niall, leading his party into the treacherous vampire's lair, was able to not only complete the task of obtaining Iggwilv's treasure, but he also managed to defeat Drelnza by reversing her vampiric curse and return her to human status. After a short but passionate courtship, Niall received the blessing from his order and proposed to Drelnza. They married and continued to adventure throughout the World of Greyhawk.
The adventure originally called for the dungeon to be located in the Yatil Mountains, but the DM moved it to the Hellfurnace Mountains further south. He tied in Iggwilv's curse on her daughter to the disaster that fell upon the Sea of Dust, the blighted desert area west of the Hellfurnace Mountains. Once Drelnza's affliction was cured, the Sea of Dust became a verdant oasis, green and growing and full of life. This area came to be the Kingdom of Arlon, which Niall and Drelnza ruled as king and queen.
Oh goodness, well this one time we were playing a homebrew oneshot and found ourselves in the icy parts of the Feywilds. Seeing as though this character was totally expendable (and with low skill rolls to boot), I decided to play a bear totem Barbarian Half Orc with a thick Russian accent, the priorities of Austin Powers, and the humor of Batman and Robin's Mr. Freeze.
The best part was, even though I had bad stats, and even worse Charisma, I was rolling phenomenally. And while my rolls in most cases managed to simply prevent us from being killed on the spot (e.g I tried to pick up the Queen of Winter with the line "Are you sure you're a winter fey? Because you are HOT"; pretty sure a sub 15 roll on that one would have been a TPK), I managed to charm the socks off of a nymph.
So this sophisticated Thetis type nymph has a crush on my illiterate gruff Barbarian, and he was smitten too. Unfortunately, by the end of the one shot, we had escaped the Feywild with our mission complete, but I like to headcanon that he found his way back and raised some 1/4 orcs with that nymph.
Said paladin would throw himself in battle just to get away from me, i ended up charming everyone but him just to get to him. Over and over, dice gods were always in his favor.
Once had a character who believed himself to be a widower have a really sweet brief romance with an NPC the party rescued, who reminded him of his beloved... only for his beloved to be on another plane of existence, able to see EVERYTHING.
My current rogue is driven by his search for a kidnapped lover, so only time will tell what happens there.
In the campaign that I am currently running, I have a player character that is *very* interesting.
We've been playing this campaign once a week for about 4 months now.. and everyone thought they 'knew' him... including him. BUT... this player gave me free reign on his backstory for his family. SO... I may have made this Tiefling the child of a Cambion.... and an Aasimar. He's got hella interesting plot hook potential.
But the reason this is one of my favorite romance stories so far is because this player character is starting to fall for an NPC they met in the last few sessions. This Tiefling is approximately 6.5 feet tall once you account for horns.. and the NPC he's falling for is an 8 foot tall Goliath Barbarian woman who messed him up during Sparring and enjoys arm wrestling with him.
They're both "no B.S." characters, and he just recently found out she is the reigning champion of the City for the tournament. She doesn't seem to care about his Devilish heritage, or that he is apparently also from a family of Divinely blessed people. She has taken some trouble for him, and something about being treated like a 'normal person' by her has just wrapped her around his little heart strings.
I am looking forward to the trouble this may cause. :D
I'm a big sucker for romance, so I always enjoy it in the RP setting. What are some of your favorite D&D in-game romance for your characters, whether with another player character or an NPC?
For me, I've been having a lot of fun with my warlock being involved with a bard PC~
I played a 1/2 elf bard who got a girlfriend. She turned out to be a vampire; had to stake her. Another PC in the party married my bard's mom; he was possessed by a demon. My character's name was Birand the Lucky.
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My Human Inquisitor in a romance with an NPC female Silver Dragon. Who evidently, had a previous relationship with the male Gold Dragon (PC) in our party.
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I am the Inquisitor Imperitus. I am judge, jury, and executioner. Draw your last breath now, as I send you to the Nine Hells.
In her early years my plucky young rogue, Allina Stormwind, found herself called to action and thrown into a misfit band of adventurers. In this group happened to be a very strong and not very talkative Barbarian, Arvine. A few months of danger, near death experiences, and long nights the two began to grow closer and very "friendly". After defeating a great and powerful evil the now Rugged Knight proposed to her favorite Barbarian. Six years later they find themselves answering the call of adventure once more, as far as they know all is well.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a romance, but during one lengthy journey through the Red Hand of Doom adventure my Halfling Bard/Dervish was used by a Giant as a... pleasure device once when I got stuck in a Dervish Dance.
Moral of the story: Don't get get too drunk while celebrating the days victory with and flirt with Giants.
"Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about." - My Granddad
After the time spent together as married adventurers, the barbarian wanted nothing to remind her of her drunken rage past. She kindly asked her wife to change her name, seeing that was the only option to fully commit to Allina. Now the barbarian is known as Sol Stormwind, the spell smasher.. friend to cybers.. and follower of Gorodon.
I was playing a zero-to-hero character in 3.5. he was a weresheep commoner named Merry, and he joined our Adventuring guild to try to help his family. Soon after, a weretiger bounty hunter named Serenity joined. After he got past the fear of her eating him, they became close, eventually becoming a couple. They are both very simple people, but are very cute together. Which makes the varied drama we create all the more fun...
I was Gm and our druid wanted to marry The next in line for the Role of God of Death's half brother. Well there was a marriage tournament and he had to fight the level 14 Artificer Mermaid princess . Well He rolled a nat 20 perception and saw she was stealing glances at one of Death's 5 sons . A sailor by the name Amami Bloodwel.
The druid between blows from her dragon creation made the plan with her to let her take a dive and loose if he would help her win his heart. The druid smacked her around until she went down and he won . He married the prince of hell and had Amami stay by the Merprincess' side until she stabilized.
His quote in our discord is ""I'm glad I'm a homewrecker, that shit cute!" - Will referring to the fact that Q stole Damien from Miranda and Now Miranda (a mermaid) has fallen in love with Amami (a sailor)
This was in a Pathfinder game - I played a human paladin of Iomedae named Chiemeka, and another player was an elf summoner named Rune - however, he'd homebrewed the class to make it a bit more like a warlock, and his eilodon (summoned spirit) was more like an infernal patron. We were playing a demon invasion campaign, which was particularly fun because it led to all sorts of "no good options" moral conundrums.
As the game progressed, and the party was put through the wringer again and again (at one point literally traveling to the Abyss), Chiemeka and Rune grew closer together. But there was a problem: in order to become more powerful, Rune ceded more and more of his body and soul to his infernal patron. He genuinely thought it was the only way he could help save the world; however, Chiemeka thought the sacrifice was too great - that the damage he was doing outweighed the good. It caused Chiemeka great pain to watch Rune slip further and further down this dark path, but she held onto the belief that he could be saved, and tried to convince him to renounce his infernal patron every chance she could.
Finally, quite late on in the game, the party was battling a particularly powerful demon lord. The demon lord, sensing the darkness in Rune, tried to sway him to betray the rest of the party and join the demon army as a lieutenant. However, Rune refused the offer - critically, he said, "I will never betray her. She is the reason I fight." The demon lord realized that Rune was referring to Chiemeka. During his next turn, he focused every. single. attack. on her. She was stabbed through with a dozen shadowy spears from every direction.
I tallied up the damage and said, "Uhhh guys? I'm dead. Like. Dead-dead." I honestly wasn't super upset because Chiemeka's whole deal was heroic sacrifice, so this would be a fun way to go.
"Wait!" said Rune's player. He fixed an intense stare on the GM. "I'd like to make a deal with my patron."
The GM grinned. "All right. Let's talk."
Rune eventually cut a deal with his infernal patron that traded the rest of his soul for Chiemeka's life. But when she was revived and learned what had happened, she was furious. Rune was, understandably, confused. "I brought you back to life!" he protested.
"I didn't ask you to," Chiemeka snapped back. "I've been ready to die for what's right my entire adult life! You should have known that, instead of acting out of selfishness."
After this argument, Chiemeka and Rune kept their distance from one another for some time, and each went to various other party members for emotional consolation. (Note: the conflict was entirely in-character; out of character, Rune's player and I were having a blast.) But they were still bound together, however involuntarily, by their mission, and they were both determined to see it through. They also both gained some outside perspective from their party-mates that led them to make some tentative attempts at reconnection. And Chiemeka still believed that Rune could be saved.
Then, after much hard work and strife, the final battle came - and though it was harrowing, the heroes were victorious. And once the rift to the Abyss was closed for good, and the demon invasion stopped, Rune's player said to the DM, "I'd like to remove my mask (the physical embodiment of his deal with the devil) and renege on my deal."
"You sure about that?" the DM said. "If you go back on your patron, he's going to hunt you down for the rest of your life. And if he catches you, he's dragging your ass to hell for eternal torment."
"I'm sure," said Rune's player. And so Chiemeka's faith in Rune's ultimate goodness was rewarded as he managed to finally reject the devilish ways he'd embraced for so long, even though the consequences would be great. And in the final scene of the campaign, they had their very first kiss, Bollywood style.
"We're the perfect combination of expendable and unkillable!"
That was a wild ride, and absolutely amazing!
I asked my DM, at the time, to give my Human Fighter named Gray Thorncliffe a romantic relationship. I didn't ask for anything specific.
So then, Gray was given it in the form of a human barbarian named "Conina". I can already tell she has taken a serious liking to my character and then his heart skipped a beat. After meeting her for the first time, she pretty much joined the party in all their adventures. She was very supportive of Gray's views on doing the right thing and was often a comforting companion for when the dwarf, who was meant to be Neutral Good, keeps putting him down with his stereotypical love for gold. She took no shit from the dwarf!
Then, when the campaign was about to come to a close, the party was in the Underdark, and she proposed to Gray on the spot. I said "Yes!". But, of course, the mission was involving to stop a traitorous spellblade named Ragnar from summoning Balor into the material plane, as you can pretty well imagane, failiure was not an option! Not only did we have to save the world, but we also had to stay alive to see the wedding. And we succeded!
So, Gray told his grandmother, his only living family, the good news of his engagement, married Conina and they all lived happilly every after!
My Human Paladin, Niall Staerling (represented by the miniature in my avatar), was going through The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (an old D&D module from 1982) many years ago. During that adventure, the DM changed up the ending and allowed...well, don't read the paragraph below if you have not gone through that module and want the ending to be a surprise.
***SPOILERS***
Oh goodness, well this one time we were playing a homebrew oneshot and found ourselves in the icy parts of the Feywilds. Seeing as though this character was totally expendable (and with low skill rolls to boot), I decided to play a bear totem Barbarian Half Orc with a thick Russian accent, the priorities of Austin Powers, and the humor of Batman and Robin's Mr. Freeze.
The best part was, even though I had bad stats, and even worse Charisma, I was rolling phenomenally. And while my rolls in most cases managed to simply prevent us from being killed on the spot (e.g I tried to pick up the Queen of Winter with the line "Are you sure you're a winter fey? Because you are HOT"; pretty sure a sub 15 roll on that one would have been a TPK), I managed to charm the socks off of a nymph.
So this sophisticated Thetis type nymph has a crush on my illiterate gruff Barbarian, and he was smitten too. Unfortunately, by the end of the one shot, we had escaped the Feywild with our mission complete, but I like to headcanon that he found his way back and raised some 1/4 orcs with that nymph.
Nymph going after a freshly traing paladin.
Said paladin would throw himself in battle just to get away from me, i ended up charming everyone but him just to get to him. Over and over, dice gods were always in his favor.
Ended up with a lot of servants.
Nice! :)
Once had a character who believed himself to be a widower have a really sweet brief romance with an NPC the party rescued, who reminded him of his beloved... only for his beloved to be on another plane of existence, able to see EVERYTHING.
My current rogue is driven by his search for a kidnapped lover, so only time will tell what happens there.
In the campaign that I am currently running, I have a player character that is *very* interesting.
We've been playing this campaign once a week for about 4 months now.. and everyone thought they 'knew' him... including him. BUT... this player gave me free reign on his backstory for his family. SO... I may have made this Tiefling the child of a Cambion.... and an Aasimar. He's got hella interesting plot hook potential.
But the reason this is one of my favorite romance stories so far is because this player character is starting to fall for an NPC they met in the last few sessions. This Tiefling is approximately 6.5 feet tall once you account for horns.. and the NPC he's falling for is an 8 foot tall Goliath Barbarian woman who messed him up during Sparring and enjoys arm wrestling with him.
They're both "no B.S." characters, and he just recently found out she is the reigning champion of the City for the tournament. She doesn't seem to care about his Devilish heritage, or that he is apparently also from a family of Divinely blessed people. She has taken some trouble for him, and something about being treated like a 'normal person' by her has just wrapped her around his little heart strings.
I am looking forward to the trouble this may cause. :D
Did they... hehe kiss?