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  • That’s an interesting question.

    My first thought when I considered this was a cringe and “eww”. But why? I think that telling a story like that requires a high level of intimacy, trust, self confidence/acceptance, consent and willingness from all participants. That combination of things may be the hard part. I think it would also take a lot of skill to not make it awkward.

    For a lot of us, I’d guess that our sexuality may be an area that we’re not 100% confident about and accessing the level of vulnerability required to take a game like this seriously would be challenging. And it most likely wouldn’t be just you and your partner. You’d probably need a GM and maybe another couple to round things out, so maybe it creates a subset of himan relationships that’s pretty small?

    Then I think about conflict in the context of the story. What would it be in this case? Something like Bridgerton comes to mind, but really you could do a lot with characters overcoming external forces to protect each other.

    For me, I don’t think I’d enjoy it at all. My girlfriend isn’t into rpgs and she already laughs at me enough when I’m naked…(joke). But it’s good territory for someone to design a game for couples or something.

    Edit: I typed all of this out and THEN realized there was an article linked and it wasn’t just OP asking a question, so I’m going to read that now. It’s early…