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This thread should provide enough information for you to draw your own conclusion with respect to the titular question although you'll find more details about me as an author and partner by clicking here. The focus of this thread is story ideas and plot-hooks and I will be expanding on it over time. As I generally include introductions for my game ideas this thread only contains a summary of each along with links to the relevant content for anyone who wishes to see more and although I like to have well mapped out ideas (for more basic plot-hooks, pairings and perhaps even image prompts scroll down) with intros that may establish certain details about the characters or setting none of this is set in stone. I rarely try to push my games in one direction, story-wise, as unless a partner has explicitly asked for me to DM the game I want my partners contributions to be significant, and I find when a collaboration really takes off it more or less writes itself, and can take all sorts of interesting twists and turns. Finally this thread is always a work-in-progress, and I have a number of ideas in various states of repair which I've yet to put up, and am always open to checking out other people's plots or collaborating off more basic set-ups so if you're interested in writing, but nothing here jumps out at you I'd be happy to talk ideas.
If its Not in Frame... - This plot is more romance-focused than erotic. The leading lady is a model who generally avoids social media, and favours fashion-centric work. She is talented and has a good reputation within the industry, but is getting older and finding it harder to book the sort of jobs she likes. Various agency reps have always encouraged her to take on work with more mainstream appeal, and she feels this may be the only way to boost her profile and preserve her career. Agreeing to take part in a shoot of the sort she had hitherto considered too low-brow to be worth doing. Luckily she has enough contacts within the industry to suggest a photographer (an old friend, or former lover depending on your preference) whom she feels comfortable with, and although he has been out of the fashion world for some time he proves happy to help, and still commands enough respect for his involvement to be welcome.
On Troubled Waters - Another game with a slightly more complex set-up and more room for character and story-driven action. In this plot the two lead characters have never gotten along well although their mutual friends and overlapping interests keep them running into one another all the same. They end up purchasing a boat together, and not long after it has been made seaworthy they have to make a fairly long-distance in order to find a more affordable anchorage. Neither is prepared to let the other make the voyage solo, and neither can find a reliable hand to crew for them at short-notice forcing them to make the trip together. If all goes well (and it won't) they'll only be stuck together, having to rely on one another, in close confines for six days.
Noblesse Oblige - Another story set in the Warhammer Fantasy World. I’ve written this game specifically for people who do not know this particular setting as there is minimal lore for the time-period in which it is set, and we have free-reign over much of the world-building. The focus of the story is a young woman who was raised as a boy in order to be able to inherit her father’s lands, and her efforts to preserve them in the face of a growing existential threat. It can certainly include romance, and there are two supporting characters to choose from in that context.
A Gilded Cage - This story take place in an unspecified fantasy setting and I'm seeking a partner who is prepared to get involved in the world-building. The plot itself is a fairly basic arrangement involving a political marriage between an Elven monarch and a human prince at the conclusion of a long, bloody war between the two species. However a looming existential threat to both groups will oblige the two to forge a working relationship and give us something to focus on beyond the typical, smut-centric forced marriage fare, and this idea has plenty of room to be more character and story driven as a result.
Signs Of The Old Dark - Another story set in the Warhammer Fantasy World although I've written this one to be more approachable for casual fans or first-time players. The two lead characters are brought together by the machinations of a powerful cult who intended to use the leading lady as the host in a ritual intended to summon a powerful daemon. Though the attempt is interrupted it progressed enough that they cannot begin anew on anyone else, and the cult will not stop until she is recaptured.
Silver Bullets - This game is set in the Warhammer Fantasy world, and is probably not for first-timers or even casual fans. Although the potential exists for romance the focus is a mixture of high-stakes adventure and comedy, and the story focuses on the leading man, a gun-slinging vampire-hunter, becoming a kind of comedic side-kick in his own revenge quest when he unwittingly ends up teaming up with another vampire.
Plot Hooks & Pairings
Pygmalion: as a big fan of the play Pygmalion (a story involving a wager made between two gentleman that one of them, a professor of phonetics, can pass a flower girl off as a duchess) I‘ve decided to try a request based on this theme. Perhaps something involving a well-known fashion photographer taking part in a wager that centres around whether or not he can turn the leading lady into a successful model, or we could retain the phonetics angle: a young woman wishing to make it big as an actress whose strong accent makes it difficult to land non-typecast roles for example. In other words there are a few different possibilities, but the first angle is the one I'd handle best as I know enough about the processes and practises involved to do the role justice.
The Duellists: this idea was originally for the Warhammer Fantasy setting but could just as easily work as historical fantasy, or a more generic low-fantasy tale. The premise sees a rival pair of duellists who have been meeting each other to face off in the square of a large town or city, determined to settle the matter of who is better. However as much as they refuse to accept it they are equally skilled and their bouts have always had a tendency to either be interrupted or end in a stalemate or through minor injuries, and so it goes once more. Word spreads about their marvellous skill and by their second fight the pair are drawing substantial crowds. However before their third match can take place a local magistrate declares duelling within square illegal. This same man is found dead the next morning, and the watch implicate the duellists themselves in the murder, claiming they have irrefutable evidence. The two rivals will have to stop fighting long enough to escape the city, find out why they are being framed, and uncover the truth to clear their names.
Shadow Of The Vampire: an obsessive auteur has somehow found a real vampire to cast in his movie. In the film this idea comes from the creature's price for starring in the production is the female lead, but we need not go down that road. For example the vampire could be male or female and their opposite number could be an actor, or the director. Naturally the cast and crew will be in the dark as to his or her true nature and the director will attempt to explain away any peculiar behaviour by asserting that he or she is a dedicated method actor who will not break character during the production.
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