How do you make princesses feel relevant and special beyond "she's the princess"?

How do you make princesses feel relevant and special beyond "she's the princess"?

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PC class levels.

This, plus a much bigger wealth allotment than a NPC of that level normally gets.

Considering a kingdom´s likely budget, you bet the monarchs and the heirs will rock some pretty solid magical gear.

Levels in wizard.

Write her as a proper character and not just a Rescue-Of-The-Session for the players to milk for money

She's pregnant with the heir to the throne.

Yes, this is important.

Well first, you fight back your autism, develop an imagination, and give her a well-defined personality, ambitions, allies and enemies.

Occasionally have her struggle against her enemies (either to try to achieve her ambitions or thwart theirs), perhaps dangling her need for assistance as a plot hook. Maybe she's legit or maybe she's more crooked than a Shadowrun Dragon. Depends on how you want to swing it.

The point is, being a princess is merely a meaningless status if the character is just a flat mook. Build a interesting base and being a princess just adds another dimension to something that is already compelling.

depending on the setting, write her as a fucking awesome girl to be around with who is funny and streetwise.
only to reveal to the party later on that she's just the handmaiden posing as the princess while the real princess was safely rescued by real knights/kept somewhere else/etc
surely the group didn't think they'd ever put their filthy paws on a real princess, right? haha no sir.
they're still in the good books of the kingdom now though and should get a sizable reward.

Huge breasts!

Her Cousin has killed her Brother and now plans on marrying her to legitimize his claim.

you have to escort her to the neighbouring king, the father of her Mother.

Hire a dragon to steal her
Rescue her after that

Make your princess [/spoiler]look like a prince[/spoiler].

>you have to escort her to the neighbouring king, the father of her Mother

Who plans to marry her.

No, that should be the queen's thing

Can you repeat the question?

>Huge breasts!
user, she needs a personality behind those breasts...

>>you have to escort her to the neighbouring king, the father of her Mother
>Who plans to marry her.
Damn it Royalty, quit being so fucked up!

so much character...

This.

Do you really enjoy a character that is nothing but a prop?

She's been a major player at court for years, acting through a subtle influence network.

The dragon kidnapped her because it saw the kingdom's overflowing treasury and figured out who was responsible. It wants someone to help wisely invest it's hoard.

ummm (looks at boobies... forgets question...)

Put in game effects that reflect social status, if she is a "action princess" gear/skill her better than normal NPC. Maybe she does have divine right and gets in game effects that help who ever has her favor so PC have to work to be her favorite...

Is the royal family loved or hated? PC and NPCs might be willing/unwilling to help. PC who operate under we are rebels tag might be forced to help her etc...

Does she fulfill the expectations? Maybe her royal family actually is not just publicly royalty but also secretly mages/assassins/something else which gets a reveal during the adventure. Maybe they have a mundane exceptional skill
The princess is a great cook/tailor/horsewoman. May she just thinks she is great at a mundane skill "Here try my Goulash, everyone tells me they love it" Says the sexy,cute, beloved princess (alternately chop off your head if you say you don't like it action princess) (humor and a poison check follows)
May I suggest tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrincessTropes

Your post is quite inflammatory.

The royal birthmark can be used to discern all women in the royal line (which, as consequence, is matrilineal).

the mark is that she has a dick

>How do you make princesses feel relevant and special beyond "she's the princess"?

She's the demon princess.

>Not Demon King

Flavored lube.

Make the princess a trap.
Both kinds.

>Demon King

>the princess is a semi high level rogue
>she also a member of the local theives guild
Too clichéd?

Inb4 oglaf strapon princess

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>How do you make princesses feel relevant and special beyond "she's the princess"?

She's a Lahmian vampire.

Or a secret Tzeentch cultist.

Or a secret member of the cloaked brothers who relates information on the Imperial upper classes.

Or she just gives really good blowjobs.

yeah that's still human enough I'd tap it

Thief princess is the go too, yes, but do it if you think it'd be fun.

Warrior Princess would probably be the most novel, but in the same vein, probably very anime if that triggers you/your group.

No need to reinvent the wheel, just put enough personality in to make her stand on her own. Rather than a vanilla rogue make her an arcane trickster with a magic ring that prevents people from recognizing her as the princess unless she wants them to.

>she gives really good blowjobs
If you had the right group for this it would be interesting from a story perspective since it would raise the question of "where has she been getting all this blowjob practice?"

From her mother. Behind every king that has neither mistresses nor illegitimate offspring is a queen that is really good in the sack.

Funny you should mention that, because that is actually the explanation for why one of the princes in my setting decided to set aside his philandering ways for a single wife.
They developed a real relationship as time went on, but wew.

Ever played Long Live the Queen?

Well good for them. Illegitimate offspring are nothing but trouble for a royal family anyways.

There's basically no one to tell her no except her parents.

Emmanuelle von Liebstein gets away with screwing everyone from Kislev down to Tilea and all you get is impolite rumors.

I see you too have visited the Mimic Kingdom.

Princess Quest 2: Escape from Castle Incestein

GIve her some special powers exclusive to royal blood.

Is she integral to the plot?
>Yes
Surely you can think of many other things she could be before a princess
>No
Then why bother with her in the first place?

She's actually a prince in disguise who is doing it to get close to a rival from another kingdom to assassinate him

So, Zelda? Or is she more of a Cleric!

Paladin of Nayru

>How do you make princesses feel relevant and special beyond "she's the princess"?

Do you need to? It's ok to have a character be a plot device, especially if she's someone the character's wouldn't realistically be allowed near. I can flesh out her personality if for some reason she becomes a major character, just like the blacksmith and the barmaid.

Say the PCs were for whatever reason entrusted with a very young princess to protect.
How do you think she would treat them?

With polite respect.

Honest answer:
Make her actual political active.

Take a page out of Adventure Time:

A totalitarian tyrant that rules with an iron fist of science and technology, Pink Hitler.

The campaign I'm running has my players as the "Princess Guard" the princess' guards. They were stoked until they saw that the princess wwas a fat brat who would talk down to th em all the time. Basically a constant irritant and the players hate her so much she has become the bbeg without being evil.

>Survived a legit assassin attempt at a young age

>At a young age was the only one who dared to actually talk back to an infamous warlord at a dinner, not once but TWICE. The bards still rhyme about it

>Oddly courageous but with phobias. More scared of goats than snarling dogs because she saw a goat eat a dress once.

>>Genuinely compassionate to the needy. Once was grounded for a month for conspiring to hire adventures (with her bouquet and petticoat allowance) to find some scullery maid's daughter's doll.

I try to run campaigns with some degree of realism, user. And big tits don't exist.

Same way you make absolutely anybody else feel relevant.

Have paladin princesses ever been done?
Or druid princesses
I guess Snow White would be that.

>last line

Now I've had the idea for a campaign where the party get jobs from a weird child princess, paying them with her allowance (and getting in trouble for it), to do seemingly small tasks that end up being major, far-reaching altercations. Kinda like a young Zelda I guess.

>Paladin princess
I'm putting one in my setting.
most princesses in-setting are sorceresses or wizards, though.

Well there you go.
Actually I have a princess that was sent to a nunnery, party has to go check up on her after some suppicous shit happens.
some of the nuns started to practice witchcraft, and caused allot of trouble.

>How do you make princesses feel relevant

I don't.

Royals are vastly remote creatures whom street-level chars like my party will NEVER see or hear in person - nor would they want to. I suppose some people might think RPing cartoon spear carriers in a Shrek RPG to be the real deal, but I truly pity your sort. To be clear, I don't begrudge your heehawing about BEWBIEZ or your ridiculous contortions to justify medieval "empowerment" fetishes. I don't consider your sad displays on Veeky Forums "badwrongfun" - just bad. You are bad people and you should feel bad.

But, you go on and have your "fun." I'll take mine without all the dank memes.

I make a physically and mentally superior ubermensch that can tear you apart bare handed if such a prospect wasn't uncouth and currently unnecessary

>hurr 2 animu not allowed!!1

Honestly it's always the people bitching and moaning about something being too "anime" that are disruptive and annoying. They're too focused on making sure no one has the "wrong kind of fun" instead of playing the game at hand.

>filename: bait song
>is a poem
Wait, so by pointing this out, am I being baited too? Whatever, your filename's dumb dude

In my fantasy setting:
>Kingdom A
It is tradition for the royal heirs and heiresses to go on grand adventures, to gather wealth, defend the kingdom, and curry favour with the commoners.

The eldest princess is the archetypal "leader" of the group. She's your classic plate armoured knight, rides a royal megaraptor and wields the magical spear Heartlight. She is stern, but not unkind, and is used to being in charge (and for good reason!).

The second princess is 7 years younger. Born magically blind, there appears to be no cure. She too is a plate armoured knight, but where her sister is the steel, the bulwark, the blade, she is supple, gentle, like a willow tree.

>Kingdom B
The princess is a fugitive along with her brother following a coup. She left the capital long before the couple to train as a wizard. She is a brooding, grumpy necromancer with a soft spot for halflings. She wears a classic black robe and has a sugar skull magically tattooed over her face. Played by a PC, was a very fun and interesting party (half were royals, half were poor bumpkins).

>without the dank memes
Oh but how wrong you are

I'm gonna need you to expand on this
How can you pull this off?
And how can I steal it?

High crit rate?

People seem to dislike "Save the Princess" quests nowadays because of the feminism, but I say if you want to make her interesting, why not make her so much like an object that you raise the question of is it better to serve a purpose for the greater good or to be a person and work towards the same good to a lesser effect. For example:

The princess has been blessed with the ability to destroy the bbeg, but currently the plan is rough. First the party has to rescue her from the bbeg's pet dragon, but then sacrifice her during the final fight. Thing is, the prophecy says her blood is the key, so you could teach her to fight then let her cut her hand or something and die like a hero.

With this the heroes have time to become invested in her character and her development and can choose how they handle her fate which will make them care.

She's got big tits, magically enhanced by the goddesses of fertility, beauty, and victory.

She literally sweats Myrrh, keeping the party and whatever towns that get visited safe from miasma for however long she's kept on a treadmill.

>Semi high level
>not underleveled with Pantheon-grade weaponry bound to her

>The princess has class levels in Darkwraith

Your players must love you

Kek

>a sugar skull magically tattooed over her face
Did he come up with the character or was it your thing?

Okay so you've got two aspects of the whole thing to consider. Firstly, what's the seemingly trivial task and how does it go to hell? Since you're interacting with royalty consider having some potentially become grounds for foreign offense, since you're an agent of the crown sort of. Secondly, how is the king going to find out and how is the party going to escape his explicit notice? It's fine if he knows there's *someone* the princess is hiring, but as long as he can never identify who, or even that it's always the same goons, then the princess is the only one taking the heat, and getting written off because "lol just a child". So then over time your party grows to like this kid, and they feel like they're doing cool secret ops shit. Trivial tasks are unexpectedly hard for me to think of, so I'm mixing in some other Weird Shit You Can't Tell Anyone About.

Some example scenarios:
>The aforementioned doll. Turns out that doll has been supercharged with love, making it a very significant meal for some fey creature that eats love-energy-or-whatever that lurk in the background of society. You really, really don't want to piss them off because they serve some unseen purpose and/or would seriously fuck over everyone if you turn them hostile. Completely transparent ripoff of an unmentionable source, I know.
>The princess' friend is on a trip to another kingdom, with an armed escort. She wants you to guard the escort. Make sure that they absolutely do not notice any hostilities. For whatever reason she believes there will be, and she doesn't want anyone to know about it and possibly cause grounds for war. Maybe she just doesn't want it to be centered on that person, who needs to serve some other purpose.

[1/2]

>it''s a pillow fort
Heh.

Anyway, as a PC? Well, why is she an adventurer? Just answering that question is a bucket of plot hooks right off the bat.

As an NPC? Make her savvy. Even if she's just going to be a political piece, she still has to know diplomacy and intrigue. If she really has her head in the game she might even have a spy network of her own.

[2/2]

>She wants you to go help this old woman walk around grocery shopping and such. Have the party slowly realize granny's saying some weird stuff, either super advanced magic or oddly heretical musings. And that's when the paladin realizes his Detect Evil is going off.
>She wants the party to steal as much coinage as possible (probably do a heist on a bank or merchant guild, if your setting allows). She believes that some coins in circulation are cursed, and she wants to bury them or something. Bonus points if the curse dicks over the party during this escapade.
>"You guys need to break into this house at this time." "Oh okay." And then, while they're sitting around on someone else's couch, a portal to hell or something opens up.
>"Oh hey guys have you met my friend here, the unicorn? Anyway, I need you to go rescue their royal dragon from an evil princess." It is important to note that unicorns and possibly dragons are dumb kiddie fairytales. And then the evil princess is the princess' evil shadow twin or whatever dumb garbage, but insist that you're running an absolutely serious game.

Basically, focus on wacky shit that no one will believe ever happened, and that if true (which it is) would be sensitive information. So if asked what your job is, all they can say are things like "find lost dolls" and "help grannies" or whatever. But your only real exposure to it from NPCs is a kid telling tall stories and saying weird shit.

Inspired from Have an episode involving pillow forts and/or pillow fights.

princess is also secretly the royal spymaster

Are we talking about how the group feels about her, or how she feels about herself?

Make her the ruler. Maybe there's a reason why she won't adopt the title of queen (yet)

Magnifico, thanks!

She tried to/did rape the charmer of the group and got away with it because she is the heiress to the throne.

I'm running this now.

Well if you've ever looked at the fan made Princess: The Hopeful, that's pretty much a book full of Paladin Princesses. Because New World of Darkness desperately needed magical fucking girls.

Many songs are poems. I bet that would make a fine one with a melody behind it.

By the time the party find the Princess, they're already dead and refuse to be rezzed. But they won't get their reward if the Princess is dead.

So the party must now impersonate the Princess, get their reward and now fake their death in such a way that doesn't reveal or incriminate the party in any way


This is the part where you walk away from the table

...Steph...Sit...

>S2 never

play Princess pillowfighter

>tfw no tittymonster NEET princess gf

>tittymonster NEET
Bad choice, they will sag like hell. Tittymonsters need healthy amount of exercise.

Well, don't we all?

Aren't all princesses NEETs by default?
Are there still princesses out here in the real world?

>Are there still princesses out here in the real world?
user pls, any random bitch can be princess these days.

warrior societies, everyone fights.

Don't remind me.

Excuse me fucker. Kate Middleton is not a princess. She was not born a princess and therefore can't be one. She is only a duchess.

This.
The only thing royal coming from her is the fucking half royal baby.

By giving her

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