[ SECRET POST #6017 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6017 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Whoops, sorry I got cut off and then distracted. The lady who was sexually harassed by men in her training camp so she left, changed jobs, and told all those jerks to fuck off. But she's still attracted only to men. Thus conflict! As a male PC you can romance her by by setting yourself apart from the jerks but still being the sort of squishy romantic she wants. It's kind of a tightrope and I remember loving it.

There are other reasons to lock a romance behind certain traits, mainly replay-ability, but it can also inform world building as well as character building.

So there's 3 instances where a character's specific sexuality helps create story.
Do they *have* to give them such traits? No. But they don't *have* to be fleshed out characters, they can be the sort of thin, stereotypical NPCs you seem to dislike about DA.

I guess ideally, in my perfect world, the majority of romanceable NPCs would be open to any gender but have other preferences. Lets see characters who only want to date a specific species or character type or magic user or ethnicity. Let's lock a romance behind hair color. Make an elf who's only interested in half-elves and a wizard who will NEVER bump pretties with a charisma based caster. Make all the gnomes and dwarves datable inside their height range is what I'm saying. Give NPCs reasons to turn me down besides not putting enough friendship tokens in yet.

[(Anonymous)]

Several of the romances in DA were in fact race locked because they couldn't figure out/couldn't be arsed to figure out the logistics of animating/programming the same cookie cutter romance scenes with drwaves (too short) and Qunari (too tall).

[(Anonymous)]

Your perfect world sounds like the ultimate dick move against the players. So I could slay dragons, gain confidence of rulers and accomplish all kinds of epic deeds regardless of who my character is, but if I want to have a romance I'd have to make a very specific character? Why even have options if you can't pick them? Why let players customize a character when that'll screw them over later in the game?

Dangling romance options in front of the players only to lock them behind bullshit is idiotic. Especially when everything else in the game is accomplishable regardless of gender/race/what-have-you.