In the current campaign that my gm is running us through we initially stumbled upon a very large complex, twisting tunnels and peralous monsters. After some time we ran across other adventurers. I play a Sea elf Noble who is a cleric of the Forge called Cal and one such adventurer she is a Eladrin elf noble from Baldurs Gate named Navaira. Initially we worked together for sheer survival and we ended up finding the exit but it was guarded. The fight was brutal and of the party we all died but only one stayed dead, however Cal and Navaria decide to leave while everyone else stayed. (Most of the players were new and wanted new characters so the gm followed the duo who later linked up with the new group.) As we traveled as part of our employment we had to talk about what happened and made promises that once this job was done that a much needed vacation was deserved. At this point both characters don't have any real interested in a relationship, at least my character hasn't really thought about it, but they are fond of each other. As players we've talked and we both ship it but we want to see were the story goes, cause with the new characters we are essentially the mom and dad of the group now.
We are currently playing a pretty intense completely homebrewed campaign (bless our poor wonderful but stressed dm) I play a tiefling bard and we have a half-orc wizard in the party. I specifically put previsions in line in my characters backstory so that she wouldn't fall in love with another character because I had tried really hard in the past campaigns for a romance. So she was a rough and tumble bard, had been mistreated by a few men, had two major failed relationships. Is overall kind of a mess who I thought "if she is going to fall in love, there is a lot to work through first" Then he stopped a dragon by talking to it, spared a witch who ended up being a crucial pc, comforted her in a time of an absolute panic breakdown and was willing to do experimental (homebrewed) spells in order to save her from a condition. Early on I had a moment where I could feel my heart just swell and an internal voice go "She is falling for him." The campaign is still on-going but with every instance of the two interacting, I can feel their feelings for each other growing. Out of character we know it is mutual now, but even before we said it to each other, ALL the other players at the table were rooting for the relationship. These two have cared for children together, fought gods and celebrated holidays together and still won't spit it out already. Honestly I think our dragonborn monk is about two steps away from killing me at all times because he can't take the "will they won't they"
Before this I had never played a romance between two PCs before. Now that we are in the midsts of it, it is this exhilarating roller coaster.
I have a character called Eej. He was a Tabaxi Barbarian. When I made him, he was harsh, rude, arrogant, and wanted power buy any means. That all changed when he started to have one on one chats with the parties druid, a human woman named Lillian. oddly, the two seemed like they were going to hate each other, he didnt respect her as a fighter, and shoved her out of his way once. When she saw that a villager they were protecting was sick, she did her best to cure him rather then fight off the monsters attacking, which Eej very much didn't like.
She and Eej have something in common, fear.
Her family was killed via plague, and she was assumed dead alone with them. So, plague control loaded them onto a boat and sent them out into the ocean. She was forced to watch her family decay in front of them, and eventually, she had to eat. Eventually she made it back to land, but ever since when she touches something living she just imagines it as dead. She wanted to become a healer, but seeing as she couldn't touch her patients, she learned druidic magic and started adventuring so she could raise the money to start her own clinic.
Eej's backstory is... complicated. He was born in a city called, Eej. He was a street rat till he was 10, and then he was taken in by the king, along with many more children. They were put threw tough training, and every year, there numbers were halved. How? well every year they were split into pair, and then they were forced to fight to the death. On the last year, when there were only two trainees left, Eej killed the other without mercy. He was made the kings body guard, a ruthless monster. The king was clearly a wicked man, he dabbled in wizardry, and learned a lot about necromancy. For his dark deeds, another kingdom targeted and attacked the king of the desert. He was killed, and Eej failed. Eej did the appropriate thing tore the assassin to tiny pieces, then, he ended his own life for failing. He was sent to hell, more specifically the frozen lair of the nine hells. He was tortured for years, but his mind stayed strong, even though he developed an intense fear of the cold, he still kept his mind. He woke up and found himself in a tomb, alive. He got out and ran, finding himself 1000 years in the future.
To put it simply they had fears, and they confided in each other. They grew closer, and he recognized her strength, a strength she had that he didn't, and she was impressed by his growing will and determination to try to do right. Through there time together, Eej became a good man, rugged and hard to deal with, but he tried to do what was right. He also helped Lillian to over come her fear of touch... through exposure theorpy. They would hold hands, he would put his hand on her shoulder, pat her on the back when she did a good job. Eventually, the gears in Eej's head started to turn, and he started to wonder, how such a perfect woman existed. The idea bounced around in his head if this was the ultimate torture, if the ice devils were using illusions to make him think all this was happening. He feared she was fake. Eventually, thanks to her, he decided to have faith, faith that she and the friends he had made were real, and that's when he really fell for her. His faith grew into a love for life, and its protection. That's when Eej took his first level in paladin.
That being said, Eej had never been with a woman, most of his life was training, and Lillian had never touched or been touched by a man, her fear stopping any chance of a romance.
One day, the party had a run in with a red dragon, one far stronger then them. The party ran, and in the process healing was passed around. Eej, using his speed ran with Lillian in his arms as she was unconscious. After getting far enough away he gave her all his healing hands. She then healed him with all her fay dice.The dragon noticed us as the furthest away and wanted no survivors, so he fired his breath weapon. Eej held Lillian to his chest to hide her from the flames, permanently scorching the hair of his back. He survived somehow, but Lillian still couldn't avoid the flames. She died from that attack.
Eej, even though he knew he was holding a corpse, he ran, and he ran, and he ran all the way to the closest city. He kicked open the doors of the first temple he found laid Lillian on a table, gave all of his gold to the nearest cleric, and said 'fix her' before he finally stopped running, full levels of exhaustion, near death himself.
She was brought back to life, and as soon as she was, she stumbled off the table and held Eej in a death grip. he did his best to hug her back. She was feeling the affects of the animate dead spell weaken her, and Eej took her to an INN and set her down in a room to rest. She told him there that she was done adventuring, that she was gonna go back the the village she learned drudic magic from and start her clinic. She knew he had something to do, but she still asked if he would come with her. He almost did, but he had other things to do, he couldn't let Bob'illzon(BBEG) live. He did however promise to take her home. Stuff happened on that trip that I don't think I should say, so I'll just say that they 'confessed' to each other and he promised to return in a month.
I still play as Eej, and the game is going really well.
A player at one of the old games I played in had a monk fall in love with and marry an elven researcher npc. The group founded an adventuring guild later and the researcher was left to manage it while the party was away. At one point we rescued an eladrin princess who fell in love with the monk because of the monks heroics (he carried the intelligent magic item her soul was bound to the longest and met most of the criteria I guess), but he was oblivious to the whole thing. After the campaign ended we went about our business only to get invited to a wedding in the feywild, which we didn't know was supposed to be between the monk and this princess.
At the same time, another players ardent had magically bound a succubus by using her truename, so when they arrived at the wedding the succubus spent a bit of time messing with the wedding culminated in a rather one sides fight between the princess and the researcher who was unaware of all of this. It took until literally the vows before the monk realized he was being set up to marry the princess, which he refused to do so on account of his love for the researcher.
The princesses father was going to threaten war for the monk playing with her daughters heart, but the guild we founded was full of PCs that were... how shall we say... less than sane combat-proficient nutcases with a knack for getting things done in the weirdest ways possible.
Another funny part of the whole thing was another player was playing a gay Eladrin Bladesinger turned Cleric who just so happened to be a Sidhe Lord and who constantly had to explain and apologize for the weird and less than feywild-etiquet behavior of the guests to his acquaintances.
Ok, so this one hasn’t happened quite taken off yet. (These things take a while to develop.) But my Dragonborn Sorcerer is being romanced by Tiamat. It’s actually going pretty well.
I’m usually a romantic interest in all the games I play for and I’m okay with it. My favorite one so far is my half-elf rogue falling for a tiefling warlock. The “issue” is that her father was murdered by a warlock so she already has a HUGE hatred for them. But after a few games and RP moments, the DM mentioned (as the warlock’s patron) that he should be investing his time into romance. My character still hated him, but after she got a bit drunk and started asking him questions about why warlocks “do what they do”, she started to fall for him. And both being VERY stubborn characters were tip-toeing around it a LOT. Overall, her hatred for him turned into not just seeing warlocks as inherently evil beings, she fell in love with him.
I would love to have my character be in a relationship with an npc but it feels awkward rping that sort of stuff
It’s always going to be awkward, but the best way to help make it work in the start is to create a ridiculously awkward character. That way when they start to develop a romance, it’s in character to be awkward and sometimes “laugh with a blush and run away”. Once you get more comfortable RPing as the awkward character, then you can try a character with a little more confidence and grow that until you’re comfortable enough flirting with your friend across the table including winks and kissing noises. It will take a while, but that’s how I was able to get through the awkwardness of it all at the beginning. Now some of my characters are absolute teases and the table laughs when my characters make the NPC or another PC speechless and awkward.
I was playing a human blood hunter who got close with the drow cleric she escaped from prison with. They had to part ways temporarily and during that time my character found out that this woman was a lot more powerful than she was pretending to be and was essentially an almost-god with the intent to wipe out all the races she saw as evil in the Underdark. My character after a couple of very dramatic scenes managed to convince her to change her mind, and at the end of the campaign they are still very alive, happy, and in love.
now we had just started our campaign so threes no place to get "real romance" but we do have instances for characters getting crushes, mine included! i play a arcane trickster rouge,who a medium, like real not pretending to be one. and there was this really pretty elf bard lady and my little 19 year old hormonal teen saw this pretty elf and immediately fell head over heels for her, even going as far to simp for her as to toss her a silver since he had no coppers and "clearly the pretty lady with the pretty voice will like him more if he gives her a shinny!" he found her singing in a tavern asked around for a name (a challenge he was sent on by the tavern owner. when he admitted he was a medium the tavern owner thought he was lying so to make sure he said to get the girls name that way he knows when he came with her correct name that he wasn't just gonna lie to him) so he ran around around asking everyone for her name since she was busy, but after getting no answer from anyone and it being moments from closing time he noticed she was finally done and went up to her using his simp skill that he payed her and also flirting up a storm with her desperately trying to get a name, finally after quite a bit of flirting and conversation he happened to win her name. thanking her greatly he smiled and ran to the bar where the tavern owner was to report his findings... only to find out, shes dead and has been for year, he simped over a ghost.
I'm currently running a campaign where a player character has decided to fall in love with an NPC, who in turn is being actively sought out romantically by another NPC (plot reasons) who the Player character helped save from uncertain fate in another adventure. Makes for some interesting game dynamics!
We're doing Phandelver and my DM let me be a gnoll cleric of Lathander, raised from whelp after slaver pack got killed by adventurers sort of thing, has a hat of disguise. Anyway he's trying to court Nilsa Dendrar, the daughter of the NPC the Redbrands killed and left to rot in the nothic's ravine. He rescued her from slavers/kidnappers and is completely infatuated and is convinced she feels the same. He's using gentle repose to keep Thel's (hidden) corpse resurrectable with the raise dead spell, just has to keep casting within 20 day spans and find a workaround for organs eaten by the nothic. In the meantime he's very awkwardly courting her out of session. The plan being that eventually his efforts will fail and he'll be run out of town discretely or by mob along with the rest of the party, and in a few weeks a bard at a random tavern will be singing his story with significant artistic license, which will be remarkably similar to beauty and the beast.
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They did. In this LAST session. *squeal* It was so adorable!
In the current campaign that my gm is running us through we initially stumbled upon a very large complex, twisting tunnels and peralous monsters. After some time we ran across other adventurers. I play a Sea elf Noble who is a cleric of the Forge called Cal and one such adventurer she is a Eladrin elf noble from Baldurs Gate named Navaira. Initially we worked together for sheer survival and we ended up finding the exit but it was guarded. The fight was brutal and of the party we all died but only one stayed dead, however Cal and Navaria decide to leave while everyone else stayed. (Most of the players were new and wanted new characters so the gm followed the duo who later linked up with the new group.) As we traveled as part of our employment we had to talk about what happened and made promises that once this job was done that a much needed vacation was deserved. At this point both characters don't have any real interested in a relationship, at least my character hasn't really thought about it, but they are fond of each other. As players we've talked and we both ship it but we want to see were the story goes, cause with the new characters we are essentially the mom and dad of the group now.
We are currently playing a pretty intense completely homebrewed campaign (bless our poor wonderful but stressed dm) I play a tiefling bard and we have a half-orc wizard in the party. I specifically put previsions in line in my characters backstory so that she wouldn't fall in love with another character because I had tried really hard in the past campaigns for a romance. So she was a rough and tumble bard, had been mistreated by a few men, had two major failed relationships. Is overall kind of a mess who I thought "if she is going to fall in love, there is a lot to work through first" Then he stopped a dragon by talking to it, spared a witch who ended up being a crucial pc, comforted her in a time of an absolute panic breakdown and was willing to do experimental (homebrewed) spells in order to save her from a condition. Early on I had a moment where I could feel my heart just swell and an internal voice go "She is falling for him." The campaign is still on-going but with every instance of the two interacting, I can feel their feelings for each other growing. Out of character we know it is mutual now, but even before we said it to each other, ALL the other players at the table were rooting for the relationship. These two have cared for children together, fought gods and celebrated holidays together and still won't spit it out already. Honestly I think our dragonborn monk is about two steps away from killing me at all times because he can't take the "will they won't they"
Before this I had never played a romance between two PCs before. Now that we are in the midsts of it, it is this exhilarating roller coaster.
I would love to have my character be in a relationship with an npc but it feels awkward rping that sort of stuff
I have a character called Eej. He was a Tabaxi Barbarian. When I made him, he was harsh, rude, arrogant, and wanted power buy any means. That all changed when he started to have one on one chats with the parties druid, a human woman named Lillian. oddly, the two seemed like they were going to hate each other, he didnt respect her as a fighter, and shoved her out of his way once. When she saw that a villager they were protecting was sick, she did her best to cure him rather then fight off the monsters attacking, which Eej very much didn't like.
She and Eej have something in common, fear.
Her family was killed via plague, and she was assumed dead alone with them. So, plague control loaded them onto a boat and sent them out into the ocean. She was forced to watch her family decay in front of them, and eventually, she had to eat. Eventually she made it back to land, but ever since when she touches something living she just imagines it as dead. She wanted to become a healer, but seeing as she couldn't touch her patients, she learned druidic magic and started adventuring so she could raise the money to start her own clinic.
Eej's backstory is... complicated. He was born in a city called, Eej. He was a street rat till he was 10, and then he was taken in by the king, along with many more children. They were put threw tough training, and every year, there numbers were halved. How? well every year they were split into pair, and then they were forced to fight to the death. On the last year, when there were only two trainees left, Eej killed the other without mercy. He was made the kings body guard, a ruthless monster. The king was clearly a wicked man, he dabbled in wizardry, and learned a lot about necromancy. For his dark deeds, another kingdom targeted and attacked the king of the desert. He was killed, and Eej failed. Eej did the appropriate thing tore the assassin to tiny pieces, then, he ended his own life for failing. He was sent to hell, more specifically the frozen lair of the nine hells. He was tortured for years, but his mind stayed strong, even though he developed an intense fear of the cold, he still kept his mind. He woke up and found himself in a tomb, alive. He got out and ran, finding himself 1000 years in the future.
To put it simply they had fears, and they confided in each other. They grew closer, and he recognized her strength, a strength she had that he didn't, and she was impressed by his growing will and determination to try to do right. Through there time together, Eej became a good man, rugged and hard to deal with, but he tried to do what was right. He also helped Lillian to over come her fear of touch... through exposure theorpy. They would hold hands, he would put his hand on her shoulder, pat her on the back when she did a good job. Eventually, the gears in Eej's head started to turn, and he started to wonder, how such a perfect woman existed. The idea bounced around in his head if this was the ultimate torture, if the ice devils were using illusions to make him think all this was happening. He feared she was fake. Eventually, thanks to her, he decided to have faith, faith that she and the friends he had made were real, and that's when he really fell for her. His faith grew into a love for life, and its protection. That's when Eej took his first level in paladin.
That being said, Eej had never been with a woman, most of his life was training, and Lillian had never touched or been touched by a man, her fear stopping any chance of a romance.
One day, the party had a run in with a red dragon, one far stronger then them. The party ran, and in the process healing was passed around. Eej, using his speed ran with Lillian in his arms as she was unconscious. After getting far enough away he gave her all his healing hands. She then healed him with all her fay dice.The dragon noticed us as the furthest away and wanted no survivors, so he fired his breath weapon. Eej held Lillian to his chest to hide her from the flames, permanently scorching the hair of his back. He survived somehow, but Lillian still couldn't avoid the flames. She died from that attack.
Eej, even though he knew he was holding a corpse, he ran, and he ran, and he ran all the way to the closest city. He kicked open the doors of the first temple he found laid Lillian on a table, gave all of his gold to the nearest cleric, and said 'fix her' before he finally stopped running, full levels of exhaustion, near death himself.
She was brought back to life, and as soon as she was, she stumbled off the table and held Eej in a death grip. he did his best to hug her back. She was feeling the affects of the animate dead spell weaken her, and Eej took her to an INN and set her down in a room to rest. She told him there that she was done adventuring, that she was gonna go back the the village she learned drudic magic from and start her clinic. She knew he had something to do, but she still asked if he would come with her. He almost did, but he had other things to do, he couldn't let Bob'illzon(BBEG) live. He did however promise to take her home. Stuff happened on that trip that I don't think I should say, so I'll just say that they 'confessed' to each other and he promised to return in a month.
I still play as Eej, and the game is going really well.
+Nat30 You’re a really good storyteller.
A player at one of the old games I played in had a monk fall in love with and marry an elven researcher npc. The group founded an adventuring guild later and the researcher was left to manage it while the party was away. At one point we rescued an eladrin princess who fell in love with the monk because of the monks heroics (he carried the intelligent magic item her soul was bound to the longest and met most of the criteria I guess), but he was oblivious to the whole thing. After the campaign ended we went about our business only to get invited to a wedding in the feywild, which we didn't know was supposed to be between the monk and this princess.
At the same time, another players ardent had magically bound a succubus by using her truename, so when they arrived at the wedding the succubus spent a bit of time messing with the wedding culminated in a rather one sides fight between the princess and the researcher who was unaware of all of this. It took until literally the vows before the monk realized he was being set up to marry the princess, which he refused to do so on account of his love for the researcher.
The princesses father was going to threaten war for the monk playing with her daughters heart, but the guild we founded was full of PCs that were... how shall we say... less than sane combat-proficient nutcases with a knack for getting things done in the weirdest ways possible.
Another funny part of the whole thing was another player was playing a gay Eladrin Bladesinger turned Cleric who just so happened to be a Sidhe Lord and who constantly had to explain and apologize for the weird and less than feywild-etiquet behavior of the guests to his acquaintances.
Ok, so this one hasn’t happened quite taken off yet. (These things take a while to develop.) But my Dragonborn Sorcerer is being romanced by Tiamat. It’s actually going pretty well.
I’m usually a romantic interest in all the games I play for and I’m okay with it. My favorite one so far is my half-elf rogue falling for a tiefling warlock. The “issue” is that her father was murdered by a warlock so she already has a HUGE hatred for them. But after a few games and RP moments, the DM mentioned (as the warlock’s patron) that he should be investing his time into romance. My character still hated him, but after she got a bit drunk and started asking him questions about why warlocks “do what they do”, she started to fall for him. And both being VERY stubborn characters were tip-toeing around it a LOT. Overall, her hatred for him turned into not just seeing warlocks as inherently evil beings, she fell in love with him.
It’s always going to be awkward, but the best way to help make it work in the start is to create a ridiculously awkward character. That way when they start to develop a romance, it’s in character to be awkward and sometimes “laugh with a blush and run away”. Once you get more comfortable RPing as the awkward character, then you can try a character with a little more confidence and grow that until you’re comfortable enough flirting with your friend across the table including winks and kissing noises. It will take a while, but that’s how I was able to get through the awkwardness of it all at the beginning. Now some of my characters are absolute teases and the table laughs when my characters make the NPC or another PC speechless and awkward.
I was playing a human blood hunter who got close with the drow cleric she escaped from prison with. They had to part ways temporarily and during that time my character found out that this woman was a lot more powerful than she was pretending to be and was essentially an almost-god with the intent to wipe out all the races she saw as evil in the Underdark. My character after a couple of very dramatic scenes managed to convince her to change her mind, and at the end of the campaign they are still very alive, happy, and in love.
now we had just started our campaign so threes no place to get "real romance" but we do have instances for characters getting crushes, mine included! i play a arcane trickster rouge,who a medium, like real not pretending to be one. and there was this really pretty elf bard lady and my little 19 year old hormonal teen saw this pretty elf and immediately fell head over heels for her, even going as far to simp for her as to toss her a silver since he had no coppers and "clearly the pretty lady with the pretty voice will like him more if he gives her a shinny!" he found her singing in a tavern asked around for a name (a challenge he was sent on by the tavern owner. when he admitted he was a medium the tavern owner thought he was lying so to make sure he said to get the girls name that way he knows when he came with her correct name that he wasn't just gonna lie to him) so he ran around around asking everyone for her name since she was busy, but after getting no answer from anyone and it being moments from closing time he noticed she was finally done and went up to her using his simp skill that he payed her and also flirting up a storm with her desperately trying to get a name, finally after quite a bit of flirting and conversation he happened to win her name. thanking her greatly he smiled and ran to the bar where the tavern owner was to report his findings... only to find out, shes dead and has been for year, he simped over a ghost.
Awesome stories! So fun to read. :)
I'm currently running a campaign where a player character has decided to fall in love with an NPC, who in turn is being actively sought out romantically by another NPC (plot reasons) who the Player character helped save from uncertain fate in another adventure. Makes for some interesting game dynamics!
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We're doing Phandelver and my DM let me be a gnoll cleric of Lathander, raised from whelp after slaver pack got killed by adventurers sort of thing, has a hat of disguise. Anyway he's trying to court Nilsa Dendrar, the daughter of the NPC the Redbrands killed and left to rot in the nothic's ravine. He rescued her from slavers/kidnappers and is completely infatuated and is convinced she feels the same. He's using gentle repose to keep Thel's (hidden) corpse resurrectable with the raise dead spell, just has to keep casting within 20 day spans and find a workaround for organs eaten by the nothic. In the meantime he's very awkwardly courting her out of session. The plan being that eventually his efforts will fail and he'll be run out of town discretely or by mob along with the rest of the party, and in a few weeks a bard at a random tavern will be singing his story with significant artistic license, which will be remarkably similar to beauty and the beast.