Adult Fantasy Game
In reply to witchdoctor (msg # 4):
Meh. Writing sex scenes is no more complex or difficult than combat scenes. And they can be abstracted or explicit in much the same way combat is. It's just that most people are more comfortable writing violence than they are sex. Whatever it is that says about the human condition.
And most of the discomfort, in my experience, comes from players who don't want to write smut with a same-sex GM. This is true of both genders, to some extent, but it's more prominent with men.
Same-sex pairings isn't an issue when it comes to violence.
And intimacy, in the emotional sense, is hard because writing fully-realized, unique people is hard. And it's equally hard no matter how adult the game is or isn't.
@V_V:
I'd be willing to discuss running this. I like my games toward that end of the spectrum and I think I'm in the mood for something small and intense. Couple of things:
1. What's a 'Koridan or Kenji'? Are those characters you've already written?
2. I won't accept 'when bored' as a motivation for anything. If I'm going to write a story about morals and choices and ethics and sexuality, then we'll need to workshop the character so their motives and goals are clear and tell the story we want to tell. I put a lot of emphasis on character generation. I can point you to some examples in my other games if you like.
3. If I run this, it'll be a limited/finite story. I'm not up for a full-fledged years-long campaign, but I'd be willing to start something with a clear start and clear end. Something like maybe the typical three arc pattern: you do the thing, then there's the fallout from the thing, then there's what's REALLY going on. This one is a dealbreaker for a lot of people, so I want to make sure we all know what we're getting into.
4. I probably won't do tactical maps for combat. They take me forever and I've had games fold because I couldn't keep them up.
5. I'm a male player, but expect a fully, completely, almost aggressively inclusive game world, where you might find any and all manner and spectra of gender, sexuality, relationships and configurations both physical and emotional. If the idea of non-hetero, non-cisgendered, non-binary, (non-humanoid even), relationships and sexuality makes you squeamish, then that's cool, but we won't be a good fit.
6. I don't ever abandon games when I have interested players, but I have a messy and chaotic RL and my posting rate is all over the place. Sometimes it's every day, sometimes I go dark for days or weeks. I know sometimes you're in the same boat, so we'll have to be careful that our shared inconsistency doesn't drive the game into the ground.
I'd be willing to discuss this as a two-player game. But no more than that I don't think. If we did have a second player, it might be nice if that player were a different gender from yourself. But it's not a dealbreaker.
Given all that, what do you think? No pressure. If it doesn't sound like your cup of tea, that's totally cool with me.