>The princess pulls you closer, her eyes meeting yours
>"Well then, why did you go out of your way to save me from a dragon but refuse to marry me and inisist on adventuring?"
The princess raises a valid point, name 1 good reason why your character doesn't want to be a royalty.
its boring
The princess? I’m here to marry the dragon.
spbp
My Google-fu is weak. Is this just a one-off picture, or is it an actual mango? Genuinely interested
Why be a king, when I can be a god?
>royal blood is directly connected to godhood
>the princess is literally a fertility goddess
imagine playing in a setting that doesn't do this
The batting average on adventurers making for good royalty is not as strong as you might think.
My character swore off human women after accidentally ascending to the state of a godlike supernatural being at age 15.
For those I have lost. For those I can yet save.
FF14 troony detected.
Go play wow then gay
Go 41% yourself, troon.
Why would I gay? I'm not a burger. There are no Identity politics here in the Slavistan.
Whatever you say, weaboo troony.
Holy shit I can't believe he called that, it was like watching babe ruth's famous called homerun
troony on troony violence
How did you even recognize that line if you aren't a XIV player, anon? Its not exactly a big line in the game.
It's all over the place in the game, homosexual. They repeat it like every cutscene
So you played it :^)
My quest was to slay the dragon and end its tyranny and corruption of the land. I would have done so regardless of who, if anyone, it held captive at the time. While I appreciate your affection, I should remind you that this behavior is unbecoming of your station, and could cause problems for many people if you continue to behave in this way, including, especially, yourself and those closest to you.
"I wouldn't be opposed to being royalty, but the lich is still out there and is actively trying to drown the world in undead. So not now."
>"Shut up b***h, I pay you way too much for the princess roleplay before I stuff your ass with chocolate gold coins and frick it for you to get snippy with me."
My game doesn't have princesses, moron. And my PC is pleasure addicted junkie with specific tastes.
My character is a flaming homosexual
My main concern was the loot.
>women aren't loot
They're not the booty he's after, at least.
I'll get more bang for my buck if I carry 60 kgs of gold rather than 60 kgs of women (both dead or alive)
Because my character isn't content to be royalty, and seeks to ascend to godhood and slay the existing gods instead. Because they're insane. And furthermore, they're convinced of the superiority of their true race compared to humans, elves, and basically everything else. They wouldn't lower themselves to being a thing with what to them is basically an animal.
Finally, I doubt my character would save her from the dragon in the first place unless there was something to further his goals to be gained from doing so.
Also my other characters who aren't D&D characters:
>butthole gamer nerd who doesn't even treat his partner with respect, let alone other people, and it's a modern/near-future setting so there are no princesses or dragons.
>Tall silent type who is all business, wouldn't be interested, also a near-future/modern setting with no princesses or dragons
>Old man who's married already and has been for going on 4 decades, also a modern setting with no princesses, dragons are debatable since it's Kamen Rider.
>Dumbass shounen protagonist with a partner who thinks he's some hero from a fairy tale and is also a girl, and he also has a childhood friend who's a garyu/gal type. With his personality, he's probably going to friendzone both of them. See the first two characters, no princesses, but if digimon count as dragons well his partner is a Vmon.
For both of my D&D characters:
>"Because I'm not a lesbian. Also, I'm in love with a lower ranked from another kingdom, and honestly that's close enough."
>"Firstly, because I am married to my career. I have another century or so of soldiering to do before I retire and settle down with a nice Elven girl somewhere-- and even the lowliest peasant Elf girl is more beautiful than the finest human princess."
because I was hired to do it, plus we just met and I barely even know you, that and being a succesful adventurer is better since I don't have to deal with court politic bullshit while being able to make a good living
"I have a curse that will eventually kill me and I don't want our kids to grow up fatherless."
>"Because I'm already engaged to someone I love."
>"Because your bloodline would end with me, princess. I am accursed and should sire no sons."
>"Because I am royalty already, a son of foreign gods! I have no need for wenches." (unless she is "also" of divine heritage)
>"Because my quest is not over. The one calling me still needs my help. I will return."
Now, spot the evil PC in this bunch.
third because foreign gods are evil
First
And you'd be right. Number 3 is just an arrogant shithead, but not a malicious sort.
I came to stop a huge fricking fire breathing lizard princess or not it's gonna be a problem
Your father paid me to save you
You were the objective, not the prize
The prize was a frickton of money, which I'm going to go spent on booze and prostitutes
Doesn't work, anon. If you refused marriage, that means marriage must have been offered. The king is the only one that could have offered it, so that must have been part of the reward. The prize was clearly not just money.
"I recognise no royalty. Éire go breá."
I'll take the princess with the big dick and humiliation fetish. She sounds fun.
>I'll take the princess with the big dick and humiliation fetish
wait she has a big dick, and wants to be humilliated? I am confounded but interested
He didn't specify whether it was suffering humiliation or inflicting it.
Either way, that dick's coming out in public at some point.
My character would bite. Royalty would give him more than enough wealth to continue collecting more antique weapons and to maintain them.
I'm not retiring my character just to satisfy your fetishes
In my DnD campaign My Dwarven Cleric is not interested in human women
In my WarHammer campaign My Road Warden is still drinking his way through his traumas of stopping a greater demon summoning and is also keen to gamble and embezzle
The clear solution is to marry the princess and transition to domain-level play.
Because the DM would find some way to frick me over with it
>name 1 good reason why your character doesn't want to be a royalty.
''I want to die on the field of battle, fighting for a just cause or in protection of the ones I love. I do not wish to perish on a death bed surrounded by servants and a usurped fortune''
Why would a princess marry you? Her father the king would most likely only marry her off to another member of royalty or a high-ranking nobleman. Princesses never get to choose who they marry.
Fantasy world has fantasy
Fantasy needs realism
Desired amount is highly subjective and fluctuates based on plot elements (actions need consequences, story needs impact) rather than some inherent need for realism
I wouldn't frick a princess, she is probably a virgin and so gives cheese grater head.
>I wouldn't frick a princess
Counterpoint: dragon princess
I rest my case your honor
All of these are perfectly fine except for English tbh
perfect endgame scenario except I'm the prince and she is a ratgirl
"I really like going on adventures."
>Because I enjoy adventuring too much to settle down. And if I die doing that, it's while doing what I love.
Im a dog, your majesty.
that never stopped woman before
And she's white. What's the issue?
I can smell you from here. Stale sweat, shea butter, hair spray, very unpleasant to tell you the truth.
A dog will make a fine wife too
Lots of paperwork and responsibilities.
Would rather the money of royalty without any of the responsibility. Which I have thanks to the dragon's horde.
I have a whole prostitute house waiting for me back in the city a seduced drow in the underdark and a horny goblin in my party. Committed relationships are for virgins.
Frick off homosexual.
Cope
>goblin
Cringe
>I've been already promised to a Barbarian Chieftain's daughter, and she means to collect.
The path of a Mother Earth paladin never ends. As long as there are those who corrupt nature and prey upon the weak, my sword will never know rest.
Can't go adventuring when you're a prince/king
Akshually, medieval kings would spend most of their time on the move, rather than sitting their asses on a Castle.
>i serve a higher calling
"I don't have to explain myself to a woman."
No way gay
You know I only now just realized that RE4 is a modern take on the "save the princess" story.
Already engaged and being royal increases my chance of dishonorable death
>strokes his magnificent beard
Something as mundane and trivial as royalty will occupy my precious time with the squabble of politics and lesser men. I cannot allow such a disturbance to my studies, your grace. There are books to be read, planes to be traveled, spells to be discovered and orbs to be pondered upon.
Honestly I just really fricking hate dragons saving you was a bonus
I am already married and only the pope can give me a divorce
I don't bathe and I shit outside, and I refuse to change this about myself
>Manage someone's kingdom for the rest of my life
Frick that shit I'll go get a piece of land and manage my own problems instead
The only time my character successfully rescued a princess he was able to arrange her marriage to a neighboring empire's general, essentially making the kingdom a vassal state to this empire, with princess being crowned a Queen - she was the sole surviving member of the dynasty. He did it as he saw no other way to preserve at least some autonomy of his home kingdom, which was small and torn by war between a lot of much greater powers.
He also knew that the princess and the general loved each other.
The campaign ended, and for his efforts my character was made a Count with his own planet to rule. Before that, he was just a minor noble.
In the aftermath he suddenly became 4th or 5th most powerful man in the kingdom.
In the case of my D&D characters
Dragonborn Fisherman
>”Lady, I saved your ass because it was the right thing to do, both morally and for my wallet. unfortunately, I’d rather fish with raw meat in kraken waters than marry you, no offence”
Goliath Artificer
>doesn’t even notice the princesses b***hing, just polishes his personal cannon and occasionally makes a “shoo” gesture
>exclusively plays tall "muscle mommy" characters with masculine demeanors
Yep, it's real troony hours.
Nothing in that post implies those characters are female, anon. You are literally so brain rotted that you are inventing troonys from nothing just so you have something to be mad at. Seek help.
To clear this up, both characters I currently play are male, and I myself am a normal white guy. I can kinda see where the /misc/tard’s buzzword-dar went off since I never stated the gender of the Dragonborn in my original post, but I explicitly refer to my Goliath as “him”, which renders his whole strawmanned argument pointless. Regardless of reasoning, he’s a fricking moron who should try reading something made for an audience above the age of four.
>male characters being masculine
>"muscle mommy"
I don't think the transes are the mentally ill ones here.
i'm already married, I'm doing this to job to support my wife and children
I'm not brave enough for politics.
Becoming royalty, especially in the setting the campaign takes place in, would be a severe step down. Besides, all of the cities are preparing for war. The smart money's on just profiting from the war as much as possible, waiting it out to see who prospers, and forming a shadow council in the newly-created empire.
I just stay silent and wait for her to figure it out.
This might be the most cringe thread I've seen on /tg/
"Ma'am, we're both women, I don't imagine the kingdom would accept something like that."
"Princess, you're already betrothed to the prince of the neighboring country."
"I'm being paid a Barony for your safe return. I don't think I should push my luck."
"I LIKE Adventuring!"
"I actually want to marry your brother"
"I'm not permitted to marry by law."
"I'm technically married to my eldritch patron."
"Because I'm actually trying to tear down the monarchy and install a republic."
>Last week I was running a tavern and it burned down after 2 weeks of operation, I think a kingdom might be out of my depth
Go on, be king, whats the worse that can happen? The entire kingdom cant burn doen can it?
Turns out that dragon had a larger & more impressive brother. & he is PISSED...
kek
"Defeating the dragon and returning you safely to your family was the right thing to do. Taking your hand in marriage to then lead this kingdom would only be the right thing to do if there was ample corruption to be put down, and the villains behind it to be brought to justice - then disposed of."
"Rule your kingdom well. Pray that I am never given reason to take an interest in the state of the lands here, forcing my return."
Hold a blade to her throat and start demanding answers. This is clearly an imposter, I'm already royalty of a grander empire, just with many older brothers, and now campaign against the beasts and bandits running rampant across this weak little kingdom with the princess wed to me as payment.
If I'm being perfectly honest, I've come to hate women, and I find the idea of intimacy with one highly offensive.
In character, of course. Haha.
Hah, no way gay.
Got paid a hundred thousand dollars.
I'm only attracted to swords
>be literal war machine
>created in times long forgoten for the single purpose of battle
>wearing a full set of large plate armor
>been adventuring ever since I waked up untold years after being left on an ancient battle field
>one day save princess from dragon
>justhereforthelootanyway.jpg
>now she wants to marry
>don't give a shit
>she gets closer, staring into my ocular receptors
>takes out my helmet revealing my true face
what do you think her reaction would be anons?
Soaking wet because you can be anything she wants. The strongest king both on the battlefield and in the bed via smithy attachments. She'll dedicate the local wizards to figuring out how to make her a warforge too so you can begin an eternal rule as king Omega.
Too much work.
This prompt makes a lot of assumptions and provides little info. Is there chemistry between my character and the princess? What's the kingdom like, would it be worth being royalty in it? How would people react to the princess marrying one of my female characters? Is she the same race as any given character and if not how would the people react?
It would be funny though for a human princess to be hitting on my eccentric genius female gnome.
>one of my female characters?
>eccentric genius female gnome.
lol troony
No way gay.
The princess is a child and my character is an active supporter of the former military dictatorship that saved his home country from annexation by the princess' realm.
>"Hey, my daugher keeps talking about your maid. Do you think she's going gay?"
>"Nah, don't worry about it."
Im fricking her brother
...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
>"Firstly, I didn't do it for you, I did it for the gold. Your father put up a substantial reward for your safe return, and it was in my power to make it happen, so I did, with the assistance of my esteemed fellows of course. Special thanks, incidentally, to Mr Bisley here, who designed the rockets we used. Secondly, I'm lowborn. My profession has made me a moderately wealthy man and I'm in good standing with the livery company, but I'm not landed. It would be scandalous for one of my background to become involved with you. Thirdly, I have no appetite for the endless rigmarole of court. A life spent stalking dangerous creatures through less than hospitable locations may not appeal to everyone, but it's my vocation and it brings me satisfaction. Fourthly, one of the maids at the guildhall is sweet on me and I intend to spend some of my payment for this job and spend it on taking her to do something nice."
I'm old enough to be your grandfather.
who the frick wants that kind of responsibility and usurpation of their time.
i have dragons to hunt, zombies to destroy, treasure to recover, gold to spend, and prostitutes to frick. my schedule is already chock full. shit, i ain't even got time to bleed.
I think girls are icky EW
Your father is not his father, or his father's father and his reign will see the last days of your ancestral throne. Why would I claim a crown just to lose it?
"Because dragons are disgusting creatures who only seek to expand their wealth and power at the expense of the common man. Btw, your dad's dead."
Cause you just let me frick you in every hole. Why would I marry such a prostitute?
Miss, I am a robot.
I'm not even humanoid.
Ecchi manga has taught me that marrying the random princess you've never spoken to before and saved her because her dad asked is never a good idea.
He's not nobility or royalty.
He thinks being King/Prince and court politics seems boring.
He doesn't love the princess.
He's already married to the love of his life.
It's not hard.
He already was, and he ain't going back to that bullshit just for some pussy.
"I started adventuring to avoid all the bullshit political intrigue and position-jockey, why in all the hells would I want to go back now? Speaking of the hells, there's still that demon lord trying to vore the planet, and someone's gotta stop'em"
If youve reached a level of degeneracy where you are using terms like "vore" casually & unironically in a sentence, you need to rethink your life bro
I'm on Ganker, of corse I'm a degenerate ape. You're no better being on Ganker yourself.
Im functional in society. Dont take pride in being lesser
voregays are exceptionally low and worthy of ridicule because they never fricking shut up about it and make everything else about it, given the chance
>t. had one of my players commission vore of his PC and decided to show me for some reason
Not a vore fan at all (at least it's not futa, or netorare), but we actually have a demon lord trying to literally devour the planet in a game I in. I'm also not responsible for what fetishistic shit your players share with you, just be glade it's not like CP or UB rape.
1) Never claimed I was proud of jackshit
1.1) For that matter, never claimed I liked vore, it was just easier to use than 'devour' and I be a lazy frick
2) You are on Ganker. Doesn't matter what you are or do IRL, if you willingly come to this cesspit of a website you are by that fact alone a monkey at best.
>why yes I vore *two* of these THICC pastries in the morning, breakfast is the most important meal of the day UwU
I don't want to have to sacrifice my principles for the sake of holding on to power. Rulers have to abide by different moral standards to be effective, standards I can't accept.
Girls can't marry girls! We've been over this multiple times!
She's a princess, she no doubt has a sway on the ruler of the realm. Laws can be bent or adjusted. As for the pragmatic side of things I'm sure we can figure something out as well...
Oh. That solves that then.
Want sauce. Searches did not work.
Found it. Sauce is a Fate/Grand Order doujin, "Chaldea Mania・Black & White" by a group called Bear Hand.
In my own way, I am the king.
I have a couple characters who would have some good reasons
>Druid
I am already a king. No need to become 2 kings
>Ranger
Ma'am, I'm married and I would rather die than let her down
>Monk
Burps and passes out
>No need to become 2 kings
Because he’s a 140 year old fairy barbarian who wants to die gloriously. In battle against injustice.
It’s not his fault the dragon was such a wuss. He didn’t even care about saving the princess. As far as he’s concerned the nobility can all frick off and die.
Adventuring brings cattle for my clan plus I'm too busy killing Sable Riders
I swore to only lay with my brothers in arms, like a proper Greek.
"I don't want to do the paperwork involved in getting married, let alone the bullshit I'll have to deal with as a king"
Implying getting married in ye old generic fantasy kingdom isn't a thousand times more simple than today.
but being a King Consort would still suck.
Phil pls, you got to be the racist grandpa that the Commonwealth deserved.
Because I as a person play barely functional, borderline murderhobo psychopaths. I quite literally only want to fight and kill things that can't kill me without a serious frickup on my part.
Royalty means not getting to kill things. Delivering the princess is a tolerable ordeal because the reward will let me buy better tools for killing things
I was VERY clear about this when I came to your table
>It is not that I am refusing to marry you, your highness, it is simply that there will be no world kingdom waiting for us if I don't complete my quest.
>There are not one but two apocalypses currently playing out, and my friend started one of them, so we have both a duty and an obligation to put a stop to them.
>Just as any truly noble and virtuous ruler should, I am putting my duty to my kingdom before my wants as a man.
Good enough? It's all truthful and in character.
We are in fact dealing with 2 apocalypses, and my PC is strongly duty-driven.
I have already gone through the pain of outliving a loved one by centuries before and I can't do it again
Sorry ma'am, I'm gay
I'll come back on your offer when you can trump the 12 tons of fat and fertile dragon ass I'm about to impregnate
“No.
Not because you’re of a different class.
Not because you’re too pure for me.
Not because my heart belongs to another.
Not because my d sired life precludes me from settling down.
It’s because you’re a Black person.”
Because in my homeland any titles like that a citizen gets is literally abolished on the spot. If I were to become prince consort, let alone king, the entire thing would become illegal and trigger either a succession crisis or war with my own country to whom I serve.
no joke Mexico does have a law like that
I couldn't possibly fathom how a gullible sellsword commoner marrying into royalty and being pitched into the den of wolves could go wrong, regardless of his martial prowess
Even if he had the political and social aptitude to survive, this seems like a stifling change of jobs for one who chose perhaps one of the freest and potentially most libertine professions available
My D&D 2nd ed character: would probably accept if the princess promised to help fund his church
My traveler character: too busy doing unethical medical experiments to get marrie