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Sex in your games

Started by silva, March 03, 2013, 10:13:19 AM

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languagegeek

#15
March 03, 2013, 01:18:05 PM
I have no interest in sitting around the table with the guys roleplaying out sex details. We've certainly had characters who were sexually active in game, and we've had characters in relationships with other PCs or NPCs. But yeah, no one wants to play out a set of manoeuvre mechanics.

As a young teenager, sure it was different.

Black Vulmea

#16
March 03, 2013, 01:25:33 PM
The characters in my campaign are swashbucklers. Seduction and courtship are as routine as duels.
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#17
March 03, 2013, 01:43:20 PM
There's a time and place for sexy roleplaying, and at the gaming table isn't it.
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#18
March 03, 2013, 01:54:18 PM
We treat it in games as we treat it in real life.

It happens, but people generally don't talk about it. Unless it is particularly open, blatant or important to the plot then it doesn't really figure.
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#19
March 03, 2013, 02:18:09 PM
No sex in my games. It makes a mess of the table and the dice and minis stick into all sorts of places.

The Butcher

#20
March 03, 2013, 02:30:41 PM Last Edit: March 03, 2013, 02:32:53 PM by The Butcher
Seduction, courtship, and sex-motivated action in general are not really an unusal ocurrence in my games. Last time was a couple sessions back in the WFRP game, with the female Bounty Hunter seducing a merchant's Norskan Berserker bodyguard; I faded to black as soon as the two lovebirds found themselves a love nest (the stables, of course) and clothes started coming out, which is pretty much my standard operational procedure with le sexytime in RPGs.

That's how I usually handle it and I don't think I'd be comfortable with graphic descriptions.

I have no idea how AW sex moves work. But if they can be handled like I've described above, I don't think I'd have a problem with them specifically.

Quote from: Orpheo;633818No sex in my games. It makes a mess of the table and the dice and minis stick into all sorts of places.

:D

jhkim

#21
March 03, 2013, 02:44:59 PM
Quote from: The Butcher;633825I faded to black as soon as the two lovebirds found themselves a love nest (the stables, of course) and clothes started coming out, which is pretty much my standard operational procedure with le sexytime in RPGs.

That's how I usually handle it and I don't think I'd be comfortable with graphic descriptions.

I have no idea how AW sex moves work. But if they can be handled like I've described above, I don't think I'd have a problem with them specifically.
Yes, this fits with sex moves in Apocalypse World and Monsterhearts.  The rules only specify a mechanics effect that happens after sex.  So the above scene might then follow with one of the characters marking down a bonus for their next challenge, and one of them noting down a change in their relationship stat.

One Horse Town

#22
March 03, 2013, 03:24:42 PM
I banged a copy of Unearthed Arcana once.

Tolknor

#23
March 03, 2013, 03:40:41 PM
Quote from: jibbajibba;633768I find if I have sex when i am playing, even if its just on my own, the other players generally get a bit embarrased and make excuses about why they have to leave early.


Snicker...so J, did the player you were GMing for at the time get extra exp?  




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#24
March 03, 2013, 04:31:30 PM
Quote from: silva;633738What do you think of sex in your games?

Sex tends to be an aspect of character behavior, so it can happen in game.

Quote from: silva;633738How many times the characters or npcs had sex, and how it went out?

 

Sex happens off-screen. I don't feel the need to go into graphic detail at the table because that usually makes everyone uncomfortable. I can't recall how many, but it usually was more or less genre appropriate (like not a lot of sex but a lot of innuendo in a Victorian game while a Sword & Sorcery game had sex happening more often than romance).

We definitely didn't need any kind of rules for sex.
"Meh."

Spinachcat

#25
March 03, 2013, 04:35:54 PM
Lotsa wenching.

I run Crimson Cutlass (best pirate RPG evar!) and players invariably go wenching in port. Female players playing male pirates are often the most hysterical at the table in their "let's go wenching!" bravado.

In my OD&D games, its more bronze age sword and sorcery so for some reason, more wench romping than my other D&D games.

Lotsa hookups in 7th Sea games. What's the point of saving the Duke's daughter if you aren't gonna get some bow-chicka-wow-wow? Hey, I play a renown Castillian duellist Jose Del Fuego, don't blame me.

My more modern games like Shadowrun generally have courtships and PCs looking for dates, hookups, etc in downtime. I encourage it because it creates NPC ties and history.

Dana

#26
March 03, 2013, 06:58:04 PM
The romance angle has come up a few times, but the games where that happened usually didn't last long enough for anyone to actually get physical.

Now that my play-by-post moved off a public board onto a private one, things will probably get racier. We've got harpies after us at the moment, and the pics I posted earlier today wouldn't have been okay on many public forums.

No s3xx0ring the harpies, though -- they've got bad breath.

GrumpyReviews

#27
March 03, 2013, 07:58:03 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;633840I banged a copy of Unearthed Arcana once.

Which version? 'Cause some are saucier than others.
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#28
March 03, 2013, 08:02:23 PM
Quote from: GrumpyReviews;633919Which version? 'Cause some are saucier than others.


Yeah, mine has chilli sauce stains all over chapter 3.

flyerfan1991

#29
March 03, 2013, 08:37:52 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;633840I banged a copy of Unearthed Arcana once.

Well, that explains a lot.
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