Sexual Innuendo...

[Robbert Raets]

My D&D game is completely innuendo-free.

But wait until the PC's are high enough level that I can introduce Stifmeister, the intelligent 'holy' longsword....

[Anderyn]

As Raconteur X's co-player (I'm the Boomer XO he mentioned, in fact), I will second his in-game comments. However, the GM does have the habit of creating off-screen relationships which , so far, I've been too shy to actually bring up in play --- the new security officer, for example ,is a past lover, but no one in play knows that. Which is good, because our very moral security chief would have kittens at the very idea of any player character and npc actually doing the romance thang.
I shudder to think of what he'd do if we actuallly do pull off the scene we would have done last night, if he'd showed. (The XO and one of the communications officers have just gotten engaged, and the communications officer happens to share quarters with the security chief. I still wonder what he'll do if he walks in on them sharing a simple kiss...)

Anderyn

[Polanski]

Please see "Crew personal relationships" thread in Narrator's Ready Room...

Especially the following post: http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...&threadid=5764

[C5]

Hey in my ST game, the Science officer, a really good looking Vulcan/Human female (but with no Vulcan principles) is doing her best to be noticed by the Bajoran Security Officer (last attempt was "accidentally" losing the top of her bathsuit while surfing on a holodeck beach), but always fails.
Another time, the player asked me if his character could dream of the Security Officer, and after a few dice rolls, I allowed it, but didn't go too far in the description of the dream...
Given the player involved, I expect some more innuendoish situations to come...

[RaconteurX]

Originally posted by Anderyn
Our very moral security chief would have kittens at the very idea of any player character and npc actually doing the romance thang.

Not that Lt. Moreau has any reservations about appearing, Garibaldi-like, in the turbolift any time our young Vulcan doctor (a player-character) happens to take it... it's just NPC love that is verboten. Who do you call when your security chief is the stalker?

[calguard66]

I dunno... but it sounds li8ke a great plot hook, and Halloween is coming up...

Originally posted by RaconteurX
Not that Lt. Moreau has any reservations about appearing, Garibaldi-like, in the turbolift any time our young Vulcan doctor (a player-character) happens to take it... it's just NPC love that is verboten. Who do you call when your security chief is the stalker?

[Polanski]

Better yet

Had one of the player characters considering to call upon escort services... at least they did not used their personal communicator for this one

Kind Regards
Daniel

[Anderyn]

Originally posted by RaconteurX
Not that Lt. Moreau has any reservations about appearing, Garibaldi-like, in the turbolift any time our young Vulcan doctor (a player-character) happens to take it... it's just NPC love that is verboten. Who do you call when your security chief is the stalker?

The XO! Bring it to Katherine's attention and she'll have some disciplining to do with our security chief. (Given how Moreau has been bellyaching about it being incest to even *look* at a shipmate, and totally ignoring the GM's attempts to have some very attrctive NPCs flirt with him, I find it very ... disturbing ... that he's been stalking our doctor.)

Anderyn

[RaconteurX]

Originally posted by Anderyn
[The XO]'ll have some disciplining to do with our security chief.

Discipline, eh? Now that's innuendo...

Moreau has been bellyaching about it being incest to even *look* at a shipmate...

Except in his most recent letter home, he was commenting about the lack of eligible women on board Artemis.

[Polanski]

[Ovar]

My games have lots of relationship stuff in them, or do as long as the players are into it. My last game on of the PCs had dozens of affairs (including one with the Barollian spy in 'Blinded By Science' from the Neutral Zone Campaign, and a one-night stand with the Captain's ex-lover and mother of the Captain's child! Long story.)

Whereas my current campaign has very little 'action' one of our PCs currently is interested in our Chief Engineer, while he's seeing the daughter of the Govenor of a colony world. And one of our NPCs constantly hits on women, though he the one time he did get a date, he got into a fight over her, and then got caught up so much in the fight that he forgot about the girl until asked about what happened to her by our Chief of Security.

[Polanski]

Greetings,

Still this can get off hand very easily ...
Especially with Betazoids onboard ...
They just keep sensing things when they are not supposed too ...
Captain cannot have a romantic dinner and keep in a secret

Kind Regards
Daniel

[Anderyn]

During our last game, our security chief Moreau had a discussion with the captain about the new relaxed regulations and he said *snicker* "that it would be bad if senior crew started having relationships, it'd be terrible if I started dating Bryce (my XO character)". I gasped, but the GM just stroked his chin and said that he thought we'd make a cute couple. THEN we finally did what I'd been waiting for -- the GM steered him to his room where Dovenov and Katherine were waiting for him, sitting on Dovenov's bunk, hand in hand. His eyes popped out of his head, and he gurgled when I told him that we wanted to discuss our wedding plans with him. He then made the quintessential remark about "it's like cats and dogs living together!" and raconteur x got ten xps for predicting it. Dovenov then asked him to be best man, and he shuffled around, but finally said yes. Now all we have to do is get out of the cliffhanger our GM put us into....

[Thanatos]

Hehe... haven't posted in ages and I end up posting in here for my return :P

I'm going to start by saying that sexual content, in any form including innuendo or PCs "getting laid", is really a decision up to the players of the game and that the "default" setting should be that the possibility is there, but the PCs have to make the first move to open that flood gate.

On to more important things: my tales of PC sexual innuendo!

1) In the last game I ran it was almost unavoidable, and it was my fault. The game was a home-brewed pseudo-D20 Brigandine (PSX game) inspired RPG with Lovecraftian influence (one of my PCs was a cultist of Shub-Niggurath for example). One character (an Orc bandit) got turned into a female by magical amulet and basically turned into a whore (*shudder* but it was the male PCs decision on the last part... i just made him a girl :P ) and the priest ended up getting regular... ummm... services from a collection of slave-girls he'd converted to the temple of shub. This particular track only got worse as the sexual innuendo seemed to steadily increase from game session to game session until finally it became a tertiary factor in me calling off the game telling my players "I need time to fix some of the damage you've done to my campaign plans..." which was unfortunaetly true as only the priest actually seemed to think, ever, leaving me with a world that's life expectancy was until the next game session (hello Nyar, going for a walk are we??? uh oh...)

2) I'm rather pleased that my current Mechwarrior campaign is, shall we say, sexuality-lite. Some innuendo, plenty of jokes (about both genders). This has lead to an almost universal agreement by players that the game is more fun (that and the characters work better together which helps, but i attribute it more to the tone of the game).

Moral of my stories: Sexual innuendo can add a few laughs and light-hearted moments to a mature gaming group... but only if used with some degree of decency. Letting it get out of hand ruined one my games when I could've stopped it and yet in my current campaign, and previous Star Trek, Shadowrun, and others, the few moments where we let sex, something that does btw occur in real life in case you didn't know, into the game added a degree of versimilitude and made great NPCs for me to capture/kill/torture/whatever (errr... sorry evil GM speaking).

Its also worth noting that my entire troupe of role players is male (including myself) which probably doesn't help (that Y chromosome just makes us do things that makes others go "Why?"), though it is worth noting that there are female player characters in the party and with the one magically altered exception above the players are mature enough not to be their ideal woman but behave like independant free spirited individuals.

Sorry if that came off as long-winded, but I consider this a relatively important topic because, as I stated above, well used innuendo can only add a degree of realism and occaisional fun to the game. Unfortunaetly its also very easy to let out of hand so GMs really should make personal choices regarding this one.

Heh, think I'll use this in my GM chapter for the RPG I'm *still* trying to write

--Arawn

[qerlin]

Originally posted by Polanski

And you tell me that your games are low on sexual innuendo?

Don't recall anyone saying that...