Posts tagged CRPG
Posts tagged CRPG
Now that I am thirty, I am finally coming to terms with the idea that my D&D days are over, at least until Freya can play, but they do have one enduring legacy for me as a games-designer.
I think I am burning out as a player…
It is something of a ‘girly’ thing to many players, but I have grown to like romantic sub-plots in my RPGs. It is not so much the romance that I get into (though I do love films like The Princess Bride and I did like the Leia / Han Solo relationship in Star Wars) so much as the emotional connection it inspires.
The ones that stand out for me (playing as a man) have to be Knights of the Old Republic and Neverwinter Knights - both by Bioware - because they forced me to care about someone. There are other tricks to make you care about a character - Minsc in Baldur’s gate was funny and endearing, which made me want to keep him alive - but romance is the most sure-fire way to make a player want to make a difference.
It is curious that I don’t really feel the same way about romance in tabletop RPGs, but that could just be the party I was in; at one point, the only women in the party were my girlfriend (now wife), my sister and a pregnant friend. Any romantic sub-plot I could have witnessed would have been a little strange. (none of the men were the kind to have romantic interests in characters of other men)
