I refer to role-playing, not actually having sex with your fellow gamers (unless it’s a whole different kind of role-playing group.) I played a character for about a year that had had sex every single gaming session (not alone), and you can do it too!
I did not set out to make such a stud, but it became a highlight in my role-playing career. He was a good guy, but a total jerk. I had the fun of acting like a villain in my personal life, but plot-wise I always did was the hero (so the party wouldn’t kick me out.) I’ll tell you my experience and I encourage you to steal any part of my character for your own sordid enjoyment.
First of all I played a guy. I had always played girl characters because I am a girl, and feel we need to be represented in the traditional male-dominated fantasy setting. But I had just played a couple of girls, and one pre-gendered teen (long story for another post) and was in the mood to try something different.
Into my imagination waltzed Prince Percy (Percival, but don’t call him that) Victors, complete with 18th century pink satin and ruffles; looking at me with a bored expression. He was a royal, pampered, wealthy “dandy”, a squeamish vampire (hated the sight of blood- yes, it made for interesting moments), was lecherous and very, very charming. He was also bisexual, but preferred women. Percy was an impeccable dresser and carried a black-lace Hello Kitty parasol to keep off the sun. Oh, and he was a complete asshole.
I announced quite early on that I planned to seduce the entire party one way or another. Some of that was because I needed blood to survive, and it was convenient to feed during sex; I was distracted from the icky blood thing. But I also enjoyed the conquest and told them that letting me screw them would be the best night of their lowly peasant lives.
We had three women and three men in the role-playing group. In the first game, I rolled a critical success for charming one of the ladies, along with her critically failing any resistance. This meant that she was desperately in love with me. I used her on a regular basis, and the rest of the party was immediately disgusted. Yet, I still managed to make one of the other women drunk enough to come to my bed, another was tricked into sexual favors from some plot episode where I helped her, and I did manage to kiss one of the guys (though he tried to punch me afterwards.) Along with having sex with every NPC (girl or guy) that came along, Percy was perfectly promiscuous.
I had a great time, and the other players couldn’t help but laugh (out of character of course.) I also had a ridiculously lucky set of dice. In the entire year of playing Percy, I only failed a seduction role once (and the barmaid poured water over my head) and had regular crits for how good the sex was. So although I was just being my egotistical self when I said the sex would be fantastic, it turned out to be true. Even the party members I tricked had to admit I made them very, very happy.
The best part was constantly flirting with the girls in the group. In every role-playing game I’ve played, flirting is awkward or silly because no one wants to make anyone think they’re “really” trying anything. Flirting and sex were always with NPCs or glossed over like a movie where the actors fall into bed kissing and the camera moves to the flowing curtains and CUT! But my real life sexual orientation is heterosexual, and the other players know that. So when I was flirting with the girls, it wasn’t awkward, it was hilarious. When I flirted with the guys, they got annoyed. I think this was because my character was having more sex than they were in real life, but that’s just a guess (heh.)
The only part of it that annoyed me, was how much the girls liked my character. He was a jerk. He used them and was proud of it. And yet, they still giggled (in and out of character) and flirted back. And even though the two girls I tricked into sex were mad for a few sessions, they quickly wanted a real relationship with the guy, and tried to “get” him. I (Rebecca) was incredulous.
Girl Player: My character secretly wants to marry Percy.
Me: Marry Percy?! You know he’s a jerk, right?
Girl Player: Yes, but there’s something good in him.
Me: Of course, but don’t think he’s going to change for you.
Girl Player: We’ll see.
So there you have it role-players. Be a rich, sexy, blood-sucking, egotistical slut (with good taste in clothes) and other characters will not only succumb to sex, but also secretly wish to marry you. Who knew it could be so fun to be a guy?
Actually, I think it’s the last part. Many women want a bad guy that is good just for them, that will change his ways just for her.
They won’t.
Exactly! Maybe they thought he was going to be like a romance novel where the bad guy does change for the girl, but I was being true to Percy’s own character arc.
The only character that had any influence in giving him any depth was an older male character that continually tried to tell him he needed to grow up and become king of his country. Some of the best role-played discussions.
I’m suddenly reminded of the movie The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. There was a guy who played a bard who wanted to do all the females he came in contact with. He even made it with a nun!
Loved the blog, Rebecca! I sent it to my female gamer friends and they got a kick out of it!
Sounds like a movie I should watch. Thanks!
Yes, I was in this game with Rebecca, and I believe that my character was the first to be seduced by Percy. Percy was an awesome character that Rebecca role-played (a little too) well, and Percy made for some very fun games!
*smooooch*
“If there’s any girls there, I wanna do them!”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
A lot of games don’t let those kinds of social rolls work on PCs; I find a lot of players are uncomfortable with it (and not just in seduction contexts). “Exalted” is one game where social manipulation mechanics do explicitly work on PCs, and in the 2nd Ed. core book they have an actual sidebar aimed at addressing that concern (“Stop Playing My Character!”).
As GM, I don’t always encourage rolling dice against fellow PCs, but when you have an experienced group of roleplayers like was the case here, it adds some unexpected situations and forces them to improvise for the better of the collective story experience. As with everything in the genre, you should do what works for your group. If everyone’s not having fun, you’re doing it wrong.