Hey Veeky Forums what are some tips for playing a prostitute or ex-prostitute character...

I think that falls under priestesses of a sex goddess.

>food, goods, and other services don't exist
Good one mate

other gods and goddesses had them, they were pretty much religious advertising hooks
>Come worship X, we have hookerts!

What sorts of thing are you thinking about? Sex work is a very broad profession.

I once played an albino Satyr Bard who had 'worked' (essentially slavery) as an exotic gigolo in Drow society for a number of years. While on the surface he seemed well adjusted he had no mental association between mental and physical intimacy, as well as no personal enjoyment of or desire for sex. For so long it has been a tool to survive, something other people exploited, it had lost almost all meaning for him. He actually became less physically expressive/affectionate around people as he became close to them, feeling more comfortable around them meaning he didn't have to play up the old role as much.

It's worth asking whether it was a full time source of income or just something on the side.

Serving women with otherwise ordinary jobs taking the occasional opportunity for extra income wasn't at all unusual, and would exist in places which might not have actively supported brothels or a red light district.

IRL Christian medieval Europe had so many problems with prostitution that the Church ended up owning lucrative brothels. Chastity is chastity, but business is BUSINESS.

Mate syphilis almost destroyed Europe in the 1400s

No joke back in the day getting syphilis turned you into a pseudo zombie. No joke look it up. The out break started after french troops invaded some Italian cities.

I second this nigga's concept.

Ain't no bigger prude than an ex-hooker.

>Is it right to say a polytheistic pagan-inspired D&D society would have fewer problems with prostitution than the IRL Christian medieval Europe?
Paganism covers a shitload of traditions and rites, while Medieval Europe covers a thousand years. Though generally speaking, the attitude of the Catholic Church in Europe was that prostitution was condoned. The idea was that adultery is bad, but it's not as bad as rape so prostitution serves a purpose. Thomas Aquinas put it like this: removing prostitution to cleanse a society is like removing a filthy sewer to cleanse a city.

Don't forget that the most famous Byzantine empress was herself a prostitute (technically an actress, but at the time the two blended together).

>No joke look it up. The out break started after french troops invaded some Italian cities
In 1494, two years after the discovery of the New World. It kind of lines up that some sailors who fucked diseased brown chicks would end up fucking their way into France, and the French into Italy.

Theodora a best.

I can imagine an actor or dancer or gladiator, who as part of their jobs were expected to prostitute themselves in some cultures, becoming an adventurer. Same deal with the courtesans who build up a lot of money and influence in a more political campaign. And plenty of assassins have been prostitutes.

You might actually be retarded.

Prostitute is a bit of a broad, catch-all umbrella term.

We talking about Royal Courtesans or rustic flower peddlers?

And afterall having sex with the barmaids is traditional amongst the more, lowbrow, adventuring parties.

So those are ALL terms for syphilis?

Its funny that most people blame it on another country while Scotland just gives it a name like Grandgore.

Captain Jack Sparrow is canon-syphilis infested, makes all his fangirls a little disturbing in hindsight.

>Mate syphilis almost destroyed Europe in the 1400s
>1400s

Syphilis was brought to Europe from South America by the Spanish after they contracted it from the llama-fucking locals there, which means it started no sooner than 1493, and probably rather later than that.

IRL Christian medieval Europe had ZERO problems with prostitution, as long as they paid proper taxes and all.

Hell, in Italy the Church FORCED all bachelor men accused of homosexuality to visit a prostitute monthly and fondle her tits in order to prove their heterosexuality.

Which quickly devolved in prostitutes with open decolletes with a stack of paper and pens sitting outside brothels, so any man needing a declaration of heterosexuality could pass by, wiggle a tit for a second, pay the prostitute and get a written note saying he was into women.

HISTORICAL NOTE

People didn't start getting mad about prostitution until the Protestant wankers began. And even then it was low-key. The real shit started when the Victorians started their whole puritan shit parade and began rewriting history to remove all the sexy shit out of it.

I'm being reminded of there being multiple Veeky Forums stories in the past of female shadowrunners that were prozzies on the side but annoyingly can't remember the actual details of the text.

>Hell, in Italy the Church FORCED all bachelor men accused of homosexuality to visit a prostitute monthly and fondle her tits in order to prove their heterosexuality.
Can I get a source for this?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_delle_Tette
>Ponte delle Tette is a small bridge in Venice, Italy. It takes its name ("Bridge of the Tits") from the use of the bridge by prostitutes, who were encouraged to stand topless there to entice and convert suspected homosexuals.

>The Carampane di Rialto was one of the red-light districts of Venice in the fifteenth century, by official decree. Sex workers there would open their legs wide or display their breasts from nearby balconies to attract business. The Serenissima supported this heterosexual sex in order to help stem the tide of a growing wave of homosexuality, which had grown into a social problem. By 1509, one writer estimated that there were some 11,565 courtesans working in Venice. Nearby was the Traghetto Del Buso, where courtesans crossed the Grand Canal to another legal red light district, again per orders of the Serenissima. Taxes on prostitution in 1519 helped finance excavation at the Arsenale.

She's cute, might want to take something for that little bout of conjunctivitis tho

>The Serenissima supported this heterosexual sex in order to help stem the tide of a growing wave of homosexuality,

... I now wish to support demi-semi-traqns-pansexual SJWs in hopes that they drive courtesan prices down.

>Captain Jack Sparrow is canon-syphilis infested
Gross.

I have a character I still want to play who... Okay, it's not quite the same, but it's still using sex as a tool rather than as something for her own sake.

tl;dr a faceshifting social infiltrator who can change her appearance virtually at whim, who out of necessity and then out of compulsion never wears the same face for more than a few days.

Shadowrun has rules for spoofing a lifestyle, hackers cheating their way past the lifestyle rules/paying rent etc, and I thought it'd be neat to do the social equivalent. Sleeping on a dorm room sofa one night, sharing a guys bed the next few, etc etc. It saves on expenditures and makes her almost untraceable, a constantly elusive presence dropping into and out of peoples lives in an endless succession of different personas.Thinking and talking through the concept, it was hard to avoid the fact that hooking up with people would be an incredibly effective part of this, and the character themselves has no reason to avoid doing so, even if it's something I would avoid mentioning or focusing on in general.

Do you even know what a tithe is?

Yup

>Bridge of the Tits
Superb.

>The real shit started when the Victorians started their whole puritan shit parade and began rewriting history to remove all the sexy shit out of it.
Those goddamned Victorians

Trying to whitewash history and spreading ignorance to the minds of the casual person, while still being massive perverts anyway.

They were indeed pretty rubbish.

Cool aesthetic though

Before you consider this OP please be aware of the following:
Orcus, Demon Prince of the Undead
Magical Sexually transmitted diseases
Undead STDs.

Trust me, being a whore in D&D is NEVER a good thing.

But if you're a whore for Demons, then you're the most dangerous woman in the planes.

You know who sucks Demon Dick?
Vecna's fucking mother, a bitch so awful she made Vecna into the asshole he is today. And she literally fucked half of the infinity that is the Abyss.

And Iggwilv, who has every demon on speed dial, popped out a Deity, and fucks the cosmic definition of BBEG BBC Big Bad Evil Graz'zt's Big Black Cock. to the point where Dungeon 149 has a SUCCESSFUL plan to Kill fucking Demogorgon off placing any fiendish PC as the new Prince of Demons.

You'd be surprised how open and accepting D&D demons are when you get down on all fours and just blow them, the after sex reveals dark secrets to you, and you learn powers so broken it isn't even funny, nevermind how easy it is to get set up after screwing them all.

Consider the fact you have temples just handing out Cure Disease, and Prostitutes have their own Gods who actually exist.

Prostitutes in the Roman Empire were some of the most despised citizens, so no, even in pagan religions is may be looked down upon

Were romans as gay as greeks?

Or were they straight but still saw the one being penetrated as inferior to the one doing the penetration?
Its like these savages didn't even have a properly developed capacity for empathy or give-and-take.

No cure for tomb-taint, Lichloved, or Negative energy Vampire-Dhampir Cooking son.

I mean, you're a special kind of CU^cked when a Vampire bitchslaps your pregnant wife so hard the son becomes his.

You know prostitution was used to barter too right?

Why would a random prostitute just so happen to end up having sex with liches out of the blue? You might as well claim no one is going to be a prostitute in real life because it will lead to them being raped by an elephant.

You are clearly projecting your magical realm here.

>Fucking Liches for Lichloved
You fucking dolt, there are PLENTY of undead that pass themselves off as mortal, and Lichloved is earned by fucking them, as is tomb-tainted status.

>Its like these savages didn't even have a properly developed capacity for empathy or give-and-take.
They didn't - how else could they make an empire that big?

First of all, there aren't that many intelligent undead with the requisite abilities to do that.
Second off, undead don't have a sex drive or anything to gain for it, so it'd be kind of like a mind flayer bothering to disguise itself and go to a hooker without even eating her brains.
In Golarion, too, the vast majority of sentient undead who are interested in appearing and acting human reside in Geb with each other and mortals who know what they're doing, and the chance that an adventurer gets raped by a lich in its barrow for some reason is thousands of times higher than one of them deciding to come to a town, disguise itself as a human, fuck a prostitute and then leave just to give her magical STDs.
Why am I even bothering, though? You used enough variations on the word "cuck" and so much assumption that I know you're just insecure. Your entire insane scenario, with every twist and strawman, is just the hugbox-muffled blubbering of an autistic teen who just realized that women have actual control over who they want to have sex with, and that you can't get love and sex forever by walking over to a random chick, giving her 200 dollars and squawking out "do you want to the intercourse".
You're insanely afraid of "your" women being taken by other men, especially the metaphorical lich or vampire - those who're stronger, more good-looking and richer than you - as well as the kind of women who see good things in these men, so you set up sources of rape or cuckenings everywhere to feel justified, then go off into insane rants on how fucking a demon can get you broken powers (that's some impressive reading between the lines anyway) to at once justify suspecting women of constantly scheming to betray you, giving yourself an excuse not to work up the courage to go to a hooker (because they're all horrible people and have STDs) and blaming the consequences of your own failings on women and more powerful men.
Ten years of dealing with autism has let me know this.

Bah, if you could even call the meager lands of Rome an empire.

>This Autism
Whew lad.

Fun fact- The sun still has yet to set on British territory. We own enough tiny islands and patches of land around the globe that we've been in perpetual sunlight since the dawn of the Empire.

>still a medieval setting, so personal hygiene becomes srs fckn bsns
personal hygiene was a thing in medieval
Only enlightened renaissance thrown it away as superstition of old.
So hygiene would not be as big problem as you may think

Ah, the good ol' British insecurity.

Iggwilv is actually superb because she's the greatest demonologist of all time, changes her appearance to whatever she fucking wants and has the literal demon prince of lust - the literal greatest fuck in the multiverse - on tap for booty call. And make no mistake, the power dynamic at the start of that relationship was definitely *not* in Graz'zt's favor.

...

That's grand. Is this "stomp a "literally who" country" contest now?

TO BE FAIR in the medieval period a tithe was more commonly paid in goods than in money. It literally meant giving 'one-tenth' of whatever you produced on your land.

>calling yourself the British empire
>a few meager years before you go back to just being 'England'
Toppest of keks.

Though even if money didn't exist its not like you need to prostitute yourself for cash, services can be potentially traded for any other goods or service in life.

A salient point.

Can I play as a warforged prostitute?

Of course

This reminds me of a poster on a steam game forum who was particularly insistent that a dog was not capable of killing a man.

When people brought up wardogs he continued to refuse to believe they could kill people and claimed that they were just distractions.

"You could just pick up and throw them away"

It's people like that I wish would be subjected to a rabid dog attack.

Did anyone ever bring up wolves taking down larger prey?

What class features would a temple prostitute have?

I mean it only makes sense that they would get disease immunity from their gods like Paladins do.

A big driver of social change and the reformation was all the "celibate" priests and "nobel" lords walking around with obvious syphilis symptoms. Hard to take a lecture on immorality from someone like that

Just play a Paladin.

Even the Victorians weren't as up tight as we picture them. The image of the buttoned down black suit wearing Victorians is at least partially a product of people in the early 20th century not wanting to think about their parents doing it

Paladin's job is to smite not to dick.

>not smiting evil with your dick

More important question: how much should an adventurer with a sideline in whoring charge?

Depends on the level in Whore class.

On the other hand there's a lot of people that think dogs are fucking invincible. Your guy is needed to bring balance to The Force.

First, it's a job, nothing more. You don't like to think about your job when you're not actually working at your job. when you are working, you're workign and you don't like to thin k about anythign but work, and when you're not working, thinkign about work is not only annoying it's irritating. You don't fuck people you like because it feels too much like work, so you tend to be standoffish. You don't make friends with men easily, because they like to think of you as easy, and you're not easy, it's a job and tedious. When a man treats you like a person and not a whore, you become insecure because you're always worried about that moment when they want more than just friendship, even if they aren't interested in that with you. Gay men are easy to tolerate because you know for a fact they aren't interested in your work. women can be either hateful or sympathetic, and you don't like either of those situations. A woman who treats you like a person is a treasure and you work very hard to keep things stable between you.

It's not a nice or pleasant life.

are you speaking from experience user