Sex & Sorcery At The Table
Abkajud:
[hoping this isn't a thread-jack....]
Wow, now I find myself trying to recall a time when there was real, person-to-person trust manifested at my gaming table. I've gone in that direction sometimes, especially with a transgender friend of mine (male-to-female) who, before she came out to me as a woman, was working with me to put together a 1-on-1 Wraith game with a female PC.
That might sound like some trifling stuff, but for her, given that she was a beer-swilling, football-watching, bearded, flannel-dude, and, you know, a woman inside, this was a big step.
The game never actually took place, but I think just character creation served an important purpose anyway.
Jesse,
I had that same friend, some years later, surprise me by announcing, as an NPC in a game of V:tM, that my character was gay. Yep, a gay, mountain-man Gangrel. This sort of thing was actually a bog-standard detail for us to add, at this point, and it's really fascinating that, if different people are creating more or less the same situation, the specific content can trigger very different responses.
Actually: we had some measure of trust have to take place, and I feel like I really grew as a player, when a guy in my Changeling group (detecting a theme in the games I run? ^_^) said he wanted to seduce an NPC at a bar. The players and the major NPCs had a habit of going to bars after big victories or events, which set a good, upbeat, casual mood in-game and around the table. For extra fun, the player's girlfriend was sitting next to him while we ran the scene, and for even *more* fun, there was a bit of latent romantic tension between me and my player. Whew. That was nerve-wracking to run, but introducing sex, period, into a game I was running really got me to put more emotion into the game. Even more intriguing is that the player managed to maintain a romantic relationship between his character and the NPC for a few sessions (until he left the game, as it happens).
Enough so, actually, that I didn't balk from having another NPC, a really butch lesbian, hit on a female player/character. Thankfully, it worked out well - she was a charmer, not crude or anything, so it added a fun element to the game rather than making the player uncomfortable. Good stuff!
Finarvyn:
Quote from: AXUM on June 11, 2009, 06:24:10 AM
Well... DUH!
(LOL)
Da Ax
Quote from: Ron Edwards on June 11, 2009, 04:19:57 PM
If someone could explain the funny part of this thread to me, I'd appreciate it.
Best, Ron
Ron, I suspect that Axum's LOL was due to his own "well duh" reply (and not to the original post itself) because of the way that jburneko had made use of that “well duh” phrase in the OP. But I'm guessing you figured that out and were simply making a point.
I, for one, am glad to see examples of where Sex & Sorcery comes into play on the gaming table. My group lacks the maturity to play that style, and it's always interesting to see how others make use of it.
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