I've thought about this on my walk home,Picture your character with their background, their strengths, their flaws; Can you imagine someone that would interest them? A person who could charm their shoes off? On the flipside, Is there anyone that could fall in love with this character, look past the likely hardships of a relation with a hero/adventurer/bandit.If you can't, that reveals a problem with your character, either of them being overly stoic to the point of being dead inside outside their duty, or of being so genuinely out of the norm and an outcast that no one alive could even stomach spending a few minutes in their presence.It's only natural for humans to seek love, If your character can't fulfil that condition, are they even human?
>>98046643neither of my active characters are human, unusual types of characters that I only made for their respective mechanics at first>a vampire that has gone down the paranoia rabbithole and expects betrayal everywhereno, he sees nothing but future betrayalshe's good looking despite his total asshole attitude so that means he could have a gajillion women after him>a goat demon (female)maybe some guy that was very similar to her long dead husband, I don't see her accepting anyone elseinterested in her.... maybe some monsterfucker freaks like myself (real) or a genuine monster themselves would find her appearance attractive, but then they gotta accept this slovenly-ass personality that expects the world in return for much of anything
Real human beings know only war
>>98046643How the fuck is that relevant in the context of a dungeon crawl?That is writing advice for novels or screenwriting, not for making game characters. Even then it's not good advice for a lot of genres and would result in pointless bloat in tight action or plot focused stories. It's utterly irrelevant to a game character in the vast majority of games.
>>98046643I can't imagine those things for myself, never mind a game character.
>>98046643>are they even humanGo fuck yourself, man.
>>98048115love trumps hate
>>98046643My last character was a largely ascetic doctor exiled from England during the Protectorate for political rabble-rousing. He had a come to God moment and realized while he was pursuing vainglory, he could've instead actually been helping people. It's made him very wary of love because he feels he has a moral/religious debt to make up for.
>>98046643Traditional games?
