Has a princess ever fallen in love with a peasant in your games?

Only because the peasant was an enchanter.

One of my characters his mom was a dutchess that fell in love with an Orc. I'm not sure if that counts but it's something

I'm pretty sure that the princess in our current game has never even MET a peasant.

All of her servants and attendants are the daughters (not first daughters, obviously. Usually 3rd or later) of other noble houses. Its considered an honor and a sign of trust between houses for one of your daughters to serve the princess, and later the queen when she takes on that role.

Then she's thrust out into an unfamiliar world by happenings and learns more about herself and the world at large, growing as a human being?

Not yet. But she does seem to have a rather unhealthy interest in tales of our adventures when we report back to the king. She especially wants to hear the gory details about the fights, at one point being incredibly distraught that we didn't bring her the severed head of an enemy the Barbarian decapitated with a critical hit to her as a trophy.

That's boring. Who wants to learn anything?

I'm personally a fan of negative character development, where the character ends ip even more unpleasant by the end of the thing. Or a Princess going "Man, I've learnt that commoners are truly awful. Dad was right."

that's still a character developing, just in a different(and what some would consider cynical) way.

Joe Abercombie's works are a great example.

Yes, although it was chemically-assisted and ended rather abruptly when the heretek decided that removing her brain and replacing it with a daemon-cogitator would be the more expedient means of unlocking the gene-sealed vault.

Maribelle has it easy, since she's not only a non-princess noble, but also apparently has the ability to rise up her husband into a higher position, ie Kellam's S support.

An actual princess ain't gonna open her gates for a flea-bitten cretin.

>Princess falls in love with my character, a soldier who saved her life
>Lovey-dovey romance ensues...
>...until the princess has to marry her assigned suitor
>Character fights the would-be prince in a duel and loses. Badly.
>Became a little bit unhinged by the experience and is now tracking down the prince for a rematch

The princess might fall in love with the peasant in order to spite her father and her arranged marriage.
"Fuck you I don't wanna marry that guy, imma go get knocked up by THIS PEASANT"

It's like the fucking black guys of 1000AD.

>women
>honoring their duty purely for the sake of honoring their duty

haah waaw

and then her father has 2 options to save his family's name

either ship her off to the remotest nunnery known to man or else fully disinheriting her and letting her live the glorious life of a peasant

either way, princess fucked up hard

>That art looks weird and pretty suspect. I'm sure it's a reference to something, but I don't know what.
It's from Fire Emblem: Awakening. Maribelle and Donnel are the characters depicted.

The opposite. I've had a prince fall in love with a commoner in my setting. She's a stable hand that keeps his horse.

based on the thumbnail i somehow thought this picture was a pale woman getting her tits stretched out ridiculously far by a huge black cock

i don't know why

Not exactly a princess, but I guess the setup is similar.

In the AdEva game I'm playing, the brown kid shipped from the shittiest part of nowhere got a crush on the team leader, a pretty blonde blue-eyed girl with massive anime tiddies who is also an idol and the PR princess of renamed NERV.

After a lot of dropped spaghetti, relationship drama and littlebrotherzoning, she also fell in love with him, because he was the only one who cared about her for reasons not celebrity or robot-related, like only a naive fourteen year old teenage girl can.

You may want to ease up on the porn a bit.

The closest thing we had to that was a gay prince who fell for this lowborn guy.

Who turned out to be the BBEGs son, and intentionally courted the prince to backstab him and take the throne for his mom.

Actually had the reverse happen, where a playboy character with a noble background ended up marrying a barmaid. In his defense, the nookie was fantastic and she had class levels, paired with really good STR/CHA.
He was technically a prince but had basically a knight's level of authority because the council of the nation ran everything anyways, which is why he was a playboy in the first place. That changed after the council ended up being in league to the BBEG and he suddenly jumped several tiers in authority. She had four of his kids.

>he didn't start "elephant love melody"
>they didn't sing it while ascending the steps to the castle
>they didn't end with "come what may"
Shit group, fampai.

I have a downplayed example. In the setting that the GM has made, those who have magical talent within the Valerian Empire get selected to train those talents from a young age and get elevated to minor nobility to go with it. The time period is analogous to the early 1900s so the peasant social class is long gone by then but royalty is still a prominent part of the government.

Anyway my character is one such mage who has a romantic eye on a female warrior, though she's not a peasant but a homonculous created to be a warrior and the template used to create her is royalty.

This is made more complex by the fact that she is still developing individuality and that she's a warrior of a different country, though allied to Valeria. One of the main character traits of my PC is undying loyalty to Valeria so the fact that she is a warrior of a different country might cause conflicts if relationships go sour.

Not even teenage girls are that short sighted as too let bang some county blumpkin who can't read and write and who is indebted to their father since he owns their lands knock them up.

The Black guys of the medieval ages were dashing rogues and black knights.

>you will never be a serf
>Princess will never have her eye for you
>She won't end up demanding that her father buy the plot of land you're bonded to for her
>As soon as the deed is in her hand, she'll come down to the estate and make it her home away from home just to be near you
>you'll never be confused and kind of scared when she starts flirting with you; with her flirtation becoming less and less subtle as time goes on

Maybe not love, but affairs sure, and not just princesses either. Even kings and queens, and an empress once as I recall.

>and an empress once as I recall.
who dis

sounds fun and shenanigans-filled

It was a situation where a PC was a noble and naval commander who held out amazingly against the ongoing invasion of his country by the empire. By the end he was about the highest ranking official left, not dead or having fled elsewhere, and was still fighting as a rebel despite the country having fallen. Eventually he got caught though, and the Empress who had a lot of respect for him kept him as a prisoner (treated well) and waged sort of an intellectual war against him to try and convince him that her way was the best and that he should work for her, kept trying to break him down and persuade him to defeat.

The affair in question happened when after some time of this and him having been logically defeated but not his willpower, she granted him private counsel to her chamber and tried to have an honest heart to heart and try to air out his grievances. Intentionally she didn't have any guards around and sort of taunted him to act brashly, saying how that was his chance to take his revenge against her. He didn't want to give in and attack or try to kill her like she wanted, but he was mad as hell and acted on emotion. What followed was borderline rape, hate sex as he vented his anger against her, and she kept provoking him along through it.

In the end we figured she must have planned something along those lines because it worked entirely in her favor, after all that she managed to finally wear him down and dispel his refusal of serving her, and had him wrapped around her finger. She kept the angry affair ongoing in secret, while he served her as the new admiral of the Empire's navy.

Yeah, but she was one of several daughters (the Emperor had 17 wives and a ton of kids -- but only one very well-hidden-and-defended son due to assassinations), so she was able to marry my Native American-style barbarian (he rescued her from pirates or slavers, I forget which) pretty easily; she actually likes the rugged life.

The princess was forth in line to the throne, and had been kidnapped by an ogre. The king was offering her hand in marriage and a dowry - the bestowal of knighthood and a Barony at the edge of the kingdom. So my intrepid little fighter decides 'why the hell not?' and heads out into the hinterlands. After a week of tracking and traipsing through the woods, He come across the beast's vile lair, a small cave system halfway up the side of a mountain.

And so, standing at the mouth of the cave, I issued my challenge. "Stand forth and deliver," or some such knightly nonsense. I thought it sounded good. The response was a muted 'Oh, bother' followed shortly by what appeared to be a fireball to the face. Dodging (flinching, really) backwards took me off the path and down half the mountain, bouncing off every rock and tree on the way down.

My fighter woke up a few hours later, hurting something fierce, to find his armor removed, his wounds treated, and his self wrapped in a rough blanket with a rather large half-orc peering at him. Behind the gray skinned fellow was a short haired lass in a chain shirt, looking embarrassed as she tended the fire.

And that's how Derrik 'Dodger', a nick name he's yet to get rid of, met the rest of the party. Turns out Mirabelle had 'voluntarily quit the position of Princess' (run away) after meeting her betrothed, and the king's men had spotted her in company with Uural Digdug II, who was rather tall for a Half-Orc.

At this point she knows, and is quite bothered by, her father's offer for her safe return. After nearly a dozen life threatening escapades and the trumping of the occasional knight-errant from Graenada and Toron-Marshe, we've come to be rather close. She’s mentioned a few times now that, should she not fall in love with anyone, she’d rather marry Dodger than ‘that foolish boor of a prince’ from Toron-Marshe.

Closest we've gotten to is half-elf daughter of a corrupt mayor falling for a kid from a modest merchant family. It could have been really cringe-worthy, but props to player, it didn't.

DM kept her around as a friendly bard NPC/walking campaign soundtrack.

>Le another overused cliche thread
Yes. Because cliches are fun

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You know this shit happens all the time right? Except it's usually princes having flings with country gals, because the princesses are stuck up bitches with no heart.

...of how to write like an angry 14 year-old with above-average intelligence who just discovered that fantasy authors other than Tolkien exist.

>happy end for homos NEVER EVER

Closest we ever got to that
>players rescue a princess from a local duke
>duke didn't even have some master plan just 1. Steal princess 2. ???? 3. Profit
>worst case he figured she'd just be forgotten and he's one step closer, in his mind, to the thrown
>didn't even kill her cause he was just a dumb but nice stache tweedler with visions of future glory
>party eventually finds her in his manse with her ordering the staff around like a princess would
>dukes just wringing his hands and bowing and scraping making sure she's happy but contained
>cue bloody fight as the duke has actual soldiers and the staff weren't helpless
>have to explain to the princess the kings fine and we're a rescue party
>she thought she had to be whisked to safety from a plot to kill off the royal line and that she's the sole survivor
>paladin is m'ladying the whole time
>both get partial to each other
>even have day dates at places they stop on the way back
>paladin gets her favor at some point
>sews it into his undercoat shawl style in some sort of she'll always be with him gesture
>finally get back to the king
>some guy we've never seen before comes running to the princess checking to see if she's okay and slapping the paladin for touching the lady when he helped her dismount
>king has just enough time to welcome the party home and mention the guy who's all over the princess is the neighboring kingdom's prince
>party has to calm the paladin down who actively refuses to believe the prince is anything but evil and requires smite and cleave
>king throws us a feast and rewards us generously
>princess is nowhere to be seen the entire time
>paladins only use of his time is asking about the princess to the point the king has to tell him to stop
>finally get escorted out of the city royal guard style with our reward and some fancy new digs
>as a random royal guard bumps past us he hands the paladin a note quietly before disappearing in ranks

...

Well, y'know, mistreatment of gays just gets the Pulse racing.

Forsooth.

carlos you shitskin fuck I just got that

>note is from the princess
>basically says what they had was fun but now that she's back home its time for her to be a princess again and there's no room for romance in that kind of lifestyle
>paladin swears to take down the kingdom that took the love of his life from him
>next session paladin player has a new character, a bard
>says him and the DM "backdoored" the paladin
usually for us that means they hashed shit out for the characters ending out of group for some reason. Usually means we see them again or occasionally but as an NPC
>much later on we get tasked by the new king to rescue the prince
>queen gives us odd orders to bring back the ringleaders personal effects
>good bit of sleuthing leads to a group brigand types hanging out in the local forest
>start question sentries on their leader to find out why the queen asked us to bring his personal shit back
>interrogation of sentry guards doesn't reveal much beyond the guy being an anti-paladin of minor ability
>can't even vouch for his physical appearance as no ones actually seen him outside of his armor
>find the guy in a clearing with a dueling ring set up with the prince in the center
>starts bellowing at us almost incoherently about how such a noble king had to drag along royal guards to fight for him
>just charges right at us
>takes maybe a few goes but we manage to stab the guy
>armor falls to the ground limply
>check on prince who's okay but shocked as any 6 year old would be
>inspect the leaders body
>mummified corpse inside grimy and busted up armor
>armors basically rusty trash covered in dried blood
>surprisingly well kept undercoat despite being sandwiched between the armor and a dried up corpse
>corpse seems to have died some time ago via a stab wound to the heart
>leave the corpse and take the gear
>get back to the city within a day
>kings thrilled his son's back but the queen basically bowls us over to get to the armor and coat

"As you wish."

>grabs the coat and whips it into a nearby brazier
>tells the guards to scrap the armor for pots or something
>everyone finally calms down and we start asking questions
>turns out the original paladin died ages ago after a shitty assassination attempt on the then prince during a parade
>his cohorts managed to get his body away somehow and ever since he's caused issues every so often and occasionally he has been witnessed killed
>it took a bit to figure out someone always took the coat the guy wore at some point in the ordeal or before he was buried
>ever since he pops up and has been causing more but still relatively minor havoc until he up and kidnapped the prince
>even wrote the king a note saying he wanted a duel to the death for the crown
>we're not even sure the body we left was the original
>went back and checked the place out again but the leftover brigands cleaned house and took the corpse with them

We don't flirt with princesses anymore.

>Not even teenage girls are that short sighted as too let bang some county blumpkin who can't read and write and who is indebted to their father since he owns their lands knock them up.

High school teacher here.

You are Dagoth-Ur tier wrong about everything.

>Play a quiet spellsword with setting-appropriate fey blood
>Save a Princess from a dragon
>Her suitor tries to claim credit, party doesn't like that
>Challenge Prince Chad McFuckface to a duel, spellsword is chosen as our champion
>Wins
>Literally illusions him, cuts him in two, and sets the halves on fire
>King declares him the Princess' new fiancee
>Whoa, hold on there I'm not even fully human!
>Fact that he has an exotic bloodline makes him marriageable material
>Her face when the subsequent escape attempt only turns her on harder

The main problem is that Dad would write them off. In real life, we make excuses: in that era, daughters were cheap. She'd be out on her ass.

I once ran a campaign where the party met a minor princess. Due to accidentally giving her a cursed artefact they, to save her life, cut out her heart while she cried in pain and then replaced it with a magic heart made out of living metal.
This process bonded her to the party Magus, so they could not be more than 20 or 30 yards away from each other without passing out, so she had to tag along on the adventures. She wasn't useless since she had bard levels and made a decent support.
Every now and again she made multiple minor attempts to flirt with the Magus, which embarrassed him to no end, since she was 13 while he was a 60 year old Ifrit.
He ended up sacrificing himself to save her, and the country, and the post-campaign epilogue had her naming a child after him.

Rulers DID sometimes die childless, user. Speaking of "real life" most monarchs through history have been much more judicious than you seem to believe, because shit goes wrong and they all knew it.

As a companion and as a friend, I would've helped him to find a better looking girl, then parade her in front of the princess during a special occasion, with tons of buffs and items to boost her and his charisma to the Max and wallow in the misery of the princess, who is married to a lecherous man constantly committing adultery with whores I sent to him.

Then I would've gotten them a room adjacent to the Princess', with walls not thick enough that they will definitely have been heard fucking each other's brains out, just for the icing on the cake.

Please tell me that the party was caught in the act, put in the dungeons and then the spellsword was forced to marry the princess under geas, while having the rest of the party held as hostages should he refuse to marry the princess.

Fucking hell user, can't have a literary boner at work, it's not safe

Just walk around with confidence. If lesser men attempt to alert you to your "predicament" stare them down intensely and say "So?". Make sure women are watching.

Don't lie, grandpa. Like half of chivalric romances ended in a bunch of fucking. I seem to recall some autistic french moron destroyed a kingdom like that.

I'm sure the Princess would be really upset, living her impossibly pampered life with an army of servants attending to her every beck and call. Truly, she'd regret every day the one who got away.

That was just happenstance. You meet a pretty lady and you fuck them in the cupboard. Entirely separate entity altogether really and didn't even involve chivalry.

Nope. That's a shitty fetish and I like to make princesses realistic - they're all self-centered pampered girls with sticks up their butts who want to marry general Griffith the noblemen hero and get physically disgusted by seeing anyone of low birth.

Jesus, the opposite happened in my campaign. And it wasn't remotely funny at all.

Yes, the party did rescue the Princess (not from a dragon, but from a rival kingdom that had kidnapped her) before the Prince did. Other than that, it was the guy who had a crush on the princess who went for the duel, when he outright stated that HE was the one to rescue her (instead of the polite fiction that it was the Crown Prince.)

Me? I thought the Princess was cute, but I could see the writing on the wall. I stayed the fuck out of it. Why?

This dude was the Prince. Second, he was leading a campaign before he'd rushed back with his army to save his girl. Third, he was fucking jacked.

Obviously, he fucked up the PC. It wasn't even a fair fight, because he was loaded with magical gear up to his eyeballs. For a Prince, he fought insanely dirty, not that he needed to. Like, when the PC went down, the Prince kicked him in the fucking face.

He was pissed because that PC's impulsive declaration had nearly ruined the whole party.

Exactly. Why the hell would you marry a commoner? Not fuck one on the sly, which is embarrassing enough, but MARRY one. A love affair with noblemen can be expected, but marrying or fucking around beneath your class is really just undervaluing yourself.

I'm sure the princess is very happy that she has to live her whole life with a balding fat man and has to keep any good-looking stableboy she's fucking a secret from anyone for fear of reprisal from her limp-dick husband, who would have no issue imprisoning or banishing her lover.

I'm sure she loves having to greet everyone with a smile, even her worst enemies who are constantly talking and spreading rumors about her and the aforementioned stableboy behind her back.

I'm sure she loves not getting hot, completely politally correct dickings from the PC, who is as -if not more- wealthy than the limp dicked husband she has right now, in the big-ass fancy coach the PC just bought from the finest artisan for a steal.

Rematch? He lost. The issue is settled. Does he have any honor at all?

>making every character of an archetype exactly the same
>equating an overused romantic cliché to a fetish
I'm sure you're a joy to play with, user.

>he can't read

>not paying full price for luxurious goods
Meanwhile all the other wealthy merchants and nobles are laughing at you because you buy at discount. Shameful.

You're assuming that getting the PC's dick is a prize, instead of something to be endured.

>they pay the full price for stuff they could get cheaper and just as effective
Just goes to prove that your noblemen are laughable, braindead pieces of shit.

I bet their population is constantly starving and plotting rebellion.

No assumption here. A level 10 bard's dick is incredibly valuable for any princess/prince/queen/king

Nope. Only a goddess with petty noble. And that was only a product of his insane mind.

No, user, don't you know? Old people were robots and the world was a festering pus hole of grime and darkness, nobody gave a shit about children or each other.

(I'm pretty sure that if my historian friend saw me write this even with this much sarcasm, I would be found beheaded with an axe)

Party Ranger started having the hots for the sun queen-godess after his wolf died. Pity the player had to leave, I was wondering where that would go...

Beheading you is understandable, but why would he give you an axe?

Exactly once, assuming we can still call homeless mercenary outcasts "peasants".

It was a long story that ended in me getting no royal vagine and her being married to a foreign duke.

Not uncommonly, and not just princess. It happens. And often the PCs gain enough renown that the affair actually becomes palatable, or it's a kind of non-medieval princess/prince where the thing works anyway. Space princesses with charming rogues is a tried and tested formula.

To be honest, if I was a king and I had to choose who my daughter should marry between the inbred imbecile son of Duke Cunt McAsshole, who may-or-may not be plotting to seduce my wife, and the charismatic genius captain I'm planning to make my general anyway... I'm going with the latter.

Why do people who prefer historical accuracy in their fantasy stories tend to be so smug about it?

So they FBI know who gets credit for the kill. There's an etiquette to these things.

Make it look like suicide.

>he couldn't have reached the trigger if the axe was pointed it his head
>it's a conspiracy

As it should be.

Yep. It makes sure the dude remains loyal to your house, and it makes your daughter happier. It's double win, as a father and a king.

Some idiots would be appalled of the thought though, just because that genius captain guy happens to be a lowborn. See

It was a good run anyway. Ran a few favors for her pa, wound up chatting her up once in a while and occasionally acted as her escort because apparently my character was "exotic" and it made for a flashier bodyguard one could show off to their noble buddies.

In character he never even knew he was getting her hot and bothered all the time until she left. He was pretty sad after that.

Because they have so little else to be proud of?

Oh cmon! the spray pattern clearly shows it was an axe hit and the axe wound only compounds it! Its clear cut.

Eh. A strong king cares for what will benefit his country, and a good father cares for what will make his daughter happy. Caring about what idiots think is not in either job description. And marrying daughters off to prize generals and friends is absolutely a thing that happened often, as was people getting elevated into nobility for great feats and ending up marrying noble.

She actually probably would be. Living a life where you get everything you want probably leads to a lot of frustration when there's one thing you can't have.

This is eerily similar to an idea I have.

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>Some idiots would be appalled of the thought though, just because that genius captain guy happens to be a lowborn.

Nah, not really. Notice how said "beneath your class". It's perfectly fine to be lowborn, so long as you climb the ladder. Even being a Knight is already good enough, and if you didn't knight and give some lands and titles to the man you want to be your general, what the fuck are you waiting for?

Was the Paladin resurrecting his own doing so he could get to be with the princess again or was the resurrecting done by the princess somehow?

Anti-paladins turn to demons and darker forces best left untouched for their powers rather than gods and prayers like normal paladins.
Weird shit happens when you make pacts with demons.