Have you ever had an NPC love interest actually work?

Have you ever had an NPC love interest actually work?

Absolutely, she was a Hamadryad who was the mother of my character's daughter in his backstory, and later went on to play a key role in the middle-arc of the campaign as the kingdom's savior of all things magical.

Alternatively, I'm in two campaigns where our PC/PC romances were handled with tact and grace.

Currently trying to have this work out. I just want a character to have a happy ending once in my life...

Several times.
>acolye falls in love with modern assassin
>timid cleric falls in love with aloof princess
>rogue falls in love with half orc knight who arrested her

Since I don't introduce characters with romance intended, I have never tried a 'failed romance'. The players only seek it out if they're very into the NPC in question.

No because I never tried to force a love interest on my players.
Although their characters sometimes fall for the charms of my NPCs and try to seduce them. It may work, it has worked before. Even had a gay romance happen once.

>No because I never tried to force a love interest on my players.
So they only work if you force it? I'm not sure if you have bizarre views or you just didn't think this through all the way.

Love interests are usually forced upon players, GM create an NPC that is SOOO charming and nice and perfect and try to make a character like her/him at all cost. This is bullshit.

In my instance () it was a random maid at someones home. This is curse of strahd though... hope it works out.

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Had an NPC decide to marry one of my characters once.

It was an L5R game, and for those who don't know samurai have a duty to produce an heir to carry on their family line due to the high mortality rate. As such if you or more often your family don't arrange a marriage by the age of 22 (I think?) then the Imperial Marriage Ninjas come for you.

Now we had been regularly playing with a core of 2 people, myself the Soshi trained Kasuga Shugenja and my mate the Bayushi Bushi, for almost 2 years at this point and both of us had gone from Rank 1 all the way to halfway through 4 (In a system when the basic progression is a School of Rank 1 to 5) and the both of us had aged since our humble beginnings. My character was the older of the two at 21 years of age and still unmarried. Due to a mix of unintentionally avoiding his on clan's marriage experts and being very intimidating to the average samurai thanks to my ever increasing list of crazy things done and lost association with the Scorpion.

That's us in the pic.

Now onto the meat of it.

On this particular day we were playing the HR2 mod Broken Words which is set in Crane lands and centred around a marriage between a Crane and a Crab that was set up to end some hostilities between them. Myself and my good buddy were sent to represent our own clans and generally be famous people attending a big wedding. One of the NPC's present is a Crane by the name of Doji Yuki, who's a character that appears in an earlier mod in the HR2 campaign who my mate had met but I hadn't. We briefly met Yuki during the opening section of the mod and then later at the big dinner the day before the wedding. Now my character was chatting to various wedding guests and got to talking with Yuki, who was feeling pretty bad. For you see Yuki had a minor case of albinism, pinky eyes and very pale sensitive skin which is considered a bad omen by most, and hadn't really accomplished much of note and thus had basically no marriage prospects worth speaking of. My character, with a bit of sake in him, decided to commiserate with her on this. Because despite being a shugenja famous enough that even non-shugenja knew of him as being an extreamly capable air shugenja, my character still thought of himself as this nobody kid from a disliked minor clan who'd done nothing of note with his life. Yuki of course looks at me like 'Are you taking the piss out of me?' but I was far too busy working myself into a pit of slightly drunken sadness. Realising that I was merely being an idiot Yuki promptly zoomed over to one of the Crane marriage specialists and pointed them at me. I, shocked and confused by this sudden Crane suggesting marriage negotiations, agreed. Shortly afterwards I was married.

More cute Las Vegas wedding, please.

Honeymoon! Honeymoon!

Tragically there isn't much more to tell. The person running the game did some pretty terrible things a while after that and that actually ended up being the last mod with those two that was ever played. But there were a couple of things already worked out of my characters long term story and now that I'm running my own game of L5R I've got a chance to include them as canon in a game.

Essentially my character would go on to live a life of a PC; doing heroic and often crazy things. Over time he came to genuinely love his wife, a rarity for samurai, and ended up with 3 kids. He late in life he was divinely promoted to eternal desk job in the sky due to coming too close to achieving enlightenment, which is a big ol' no-no due to enlightened humans being almost impossible to stop and gods being very fond of the status quo. His kids would go on to do a bunch of noteworthy samurai in their own rights, each exemplifying a different aspect of what made him so good at what he did. One of his grandchildren is slated to appear in the much distant future of the game I'm running.

The honeymoon was to two of them going to come of his clans most fabulously apointed holdings and fucking like rabbits for about a week straight. Gotta start producing those heirs, don'tcha know?

>be years back when I was a teen
>GM forces a plot-relevant love interest on me
>too autistic irl to know how love works how
>constant "No you cant do that because of love"
>love interest finally dies
>charge those responsible out of revenge
>"No that's not how it works you're too sad you can't do anything"
>GM has to basically control my character for plot reasons
>mfw party has to carry me out of the dungeon

As much as you were an autistic teen who didn't have a clue about love, I think your GM had even less of a clue.

Yes. The trick is, whether you're the player or GM, to not go into the game expecting [x] character to end up with [y] character.

>charge those responsible out of revenge
Sounds about right to me. If there was someone at fault for the death of a loved one, grief would come after vengeance

>Love interests are usually forced upon players, GM create an NPC that is SOOO charming and nice and perfect and try to make a character like her/him at all cost. This is bullshit.

I had the opposite experience. The GM created a character who told my PC that he was a privileged idiot who didnt knew shit about life.

And the character had such an interesting backstory, i ask the DM, if it would be Ok for my character to want a relationship with it or if it would conflict with any of the Dms plans.

DM told me that i could try but it would be incredibly difficult for that to happen. And that became the most meaningful quest of my character.

Yeah but it's super awkward. I'm not even good at flirting with girls in real life, much less flirting with dudes who are also bad at it, while they are pretending to be a girl and several other people are watching us.

No, most love interest never worked.
They usually sat around at home and watch tv those lazy pieces of shit.

Lord, yes. But again, we're playing Pendragon, so love interests are to be expected. If your PC doesn't fall madly and impossibly in love at least once, you aren't playing the game right.