Sexiest Male NPCs

[Bardsandsages]

I'm currently running a Forgotten Realms game where the players are playing themselves. Some mage on Faerun broke a Staff of Power, opened up an interdimensional rift, and the other end was in my living room. So they all ended up outside of Baldur's Gate.

On the bright side, since they are all playing themselves they all have Knowledge: Faerun +20. But I digress...

I meant to explain the point of this post. Anyway, in game, one of the players has developed quite the crush on Elaith Craulnober. I've only read one of the Cunningham novel's with the character, so I'm mostly winging him from an NPC point. He's still evil and still wealthy, but he's raising his daughter so that he can give her the moonblade eventually, and plays the roll of the "good" father in front of her. Apparently the whole "evil bad boy with a soft spot for his baby girl" is just too sexy to resist...and has created some really...awkward...moments at the roleplaying table (since the player in question is my sister-in-law and I'm a female roleplaying this male character). But it's not just an in character thing, she has really grown attached to the idea of this NPC.

I had really figured for sister-in-law as more of a Drizzt kind of girl, but apparently after meeting Drizzt (what, you think they would end up in the Realms and not deliberately make trip to find him?), she decided he was "too emo." Which is NOT my fault per se, I'm just playing him as he is presented in the books and...well..he IS emo.

(as an aside, I'm not metaplotting the Realms, just using the NPCs and geography. Not basing the game off of story plots in any of the books)

Discussing this with one of my other female friends, she said she thought Elminster was sexy, because she always envisioned he talked like Sean Connery, and she thinks Sean Connery is sexy (she's beyond weird, IMHO, but it's her view).

So, ladies, in you opinion, which NPC in all of gaming (any campaign setting) do you consider the sexiest? Not how they are portrayed in art, but just how they are portrayed in the setting books and novels and such. I'm not going to create a poll, because I'd forget someone's favorite fantasy boy and get yelled at.

Gentlemen, feel free to chime in as well. We're all mature here. We can discuss these things without innuendo, right? Which NPCs would you be afraid of losing your girlfriend/wife to?

 

[Drowbane]

I've just gotta chime in here and say that I've never met a woman who didn't find Sean Connery (perhaps not as old as he is now...) and his accent sexy.

Interesting topic.

 

[Ambrus]

I've just gotta chime in here and say that I've never met a woman who didn't find Sean Connery (perhaps not as old as he is now...) and his accent sexy.

Seconded. I was running a campaign years ago when I happened to describe a retired ranger NPC as a strong and charismatic older-man with graying hair, reminiscent of Sean Connery or Patrick Steward. I barely had time to finish saying "Connery" before the ladies at the table began to swoon in real life. The elf ranger's player was soon trying to seduce the guy; which she did indeed succeed in doing eventually.

In my most recent campaign I described a bare chested elven weapon-smith who was surprisingly muscled and brawny for one of his people. I mentioned how he was flushed and sweaty from his strenuous labor and that was it for our half-celestial paladin's player. It was a chance encounter and she still brings him up occasionally in conversation, saying that he certainly "left a dent" in her mind.

To each her own.

 

[Ketherian]

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[Bardsandsages]

In my most recent campaign I described a bare chested elven weapon-smith who was surprisingly muscled and brawny for one of his people. I mentioned how he was flushed and sweaty from his strenuous labor and that was it for our half-celestial paladin's player. It was a chance encounter and she still brings him up occasionally in conversation, saying that he certainly "left a dent" in her mind.

To each her own.

What, she never went back to have him...eh hem..."hammer out" that dent?

Oh, right, half-celestial paladin. Poor girl.

 

[nutluck]

I will hit on a few of your points in order below.

I'm currently running a Forgotten Realms game where the players are playing themselves. Some mage on Faerun broke a Staff of Power, opened up an interdimensional rift, and the other end was in my living room. So they all ended up outside of Baldur's Gate.

Interesting concept. i have read books like this but never played a game like it.

I meant to explain the point of this post. Anyway, in game, one of the players has developed quite the crush on Elaith Craulnober. I've only read one of the Cunningham novel's with the character, so I'm mostly winging him from an NPC point. He's still evil and still wealthy, but he's raising his daughter so that he can give her the moonblade eventually, and plays the roll of the "good" father in front of her. Apparently the whole "evil bad boy with a soft spot for his baby girl" is just too sexy to resist...and has created some really...awkward...moments at the roleplaying table (since the player in question is my sister-in-law and I'm a female roleplaying this male character). But it's not just an in character thing, she has really grown attached to the idea of this NPC.

I personally know nothing about him but I do like Cunningham as a writer. I would say go with it and make the most of it. I have seen all combo's of IC romances with the genders of the players where different. The key is just to let lose and have fun, likely the player will greatly enjoy it and hopefully you will as well. I know in out games three examples that spring to mind was a male DM and player where the female NPC developed a crush on the male PC. It turned into a long draw out slowly developing romance that is even now 10 years later one of the things we often talk about. Another was between a two male gamers with similar results. The final was between 2 female gamers that was near as deep in romance as the first DM player one I mentioned and they played it up a lot more with body language than the guys did.

All in all in most cases I have seen this happen in the long run it has virtually always added a great deal to the game and made them campaign more memorible. I mean each to their own but I encourage working with it, if you can.

I had really figured for sister-in-law as more of a Drizzt kind of girl, but apparently after meeting Drizzt (what, you think they would end up in the Realms and not deliberately make trip to find him?), she decided he was "too emo." Which is NOT my fault per se, I'm just playing him as he is presented in the books and...well..he IS emo.

Can't say i blame her, since I agree.

Discussing this with one of my other female friends, she said she thought Elminster was sexy, because she always envisioned he talked like Sean Connery, and she thinks Sean Connery is sexy (she's beyond weird, IMHO, but it's her view).

Yes he does have that, no clue why. I think it is accent combined with his more pretty boy good looks(when he was young) self confidence and toughness with out being over the top in any of them. hard to explain but I get it.

So, ladies, in you opinion, which NPC in all of gaming (any campaign setting) do you consider the sexiest? Not how they are portrayed in art, but just how they are portrayed in the setting books and novels and such. I'm not going to create a poll, because I'd forget someone's favorite fantasy boy and get yelled at.

Gentlemen, feel free to chime in as well. We're all mature here. We can discuss these things without innuendo, right? Which NPCs would you be afraid of losing your girlfriend/wife to?

Been awhile since I read any FR stuff. But I would have to say the ranger from the Knights of Myth Drannor, Florin I think his name is. But not posative.

 

[Ambrus]

Discussing this with one of my other female friends, she said she thought Elminster was sexy, because she always envisioned he talked like Sean Connery, and she thinks Sean Connery is sexy.

You should have your friend spend two minutes at a convention watching Ed Greenwood role-playing Elminster to disabuse her of that mental image. It will be forever banished from her mind; trust me.

What, she never went back to have him...eh hem..."hammer out" that dent? Oh, right, half-celestial paladin. Poor girl.

Nah. She got caught up in some whole save-the-world thing or other and never got around to it before her divine patron next tasked her with spreading word of a newly ascended god.

Speaking of which...

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[kenobi65]

Pikel Bouldershoulder. Fer sure.

"Doo-dad! Oo oi!"

I mean, what woman wouldn't swoon over an idiot-savant dwarf with a green beard?

But, hey, I'm a guy. Can't say too many FR male NPCs do much for me. Storm Silverhand, OTOH...mmmmmm....

 

[Bardsandsages]

Been awhile since I read any FR stuff. But I would have to say the ranger from the Knights of Myth Drannor, Florin I think his name is. But not posative.

Florin Falconhand, Dove's hubby. Don't know much about him. The little I read he seemed a bit moody, but then again being married to one of the chosen might do that to a man. But he would probably fall under the "unattainable and therefore sexy" catagory.

 

[kenobi65]

Yes he does have that, no clue why. I think it is accent combined with his more pretty boy good looks(when he was young) self confidence and toughness with out being over the top in any of them. hard to explain but I get it.

I didn't consider Connery to be particularly handsome as a young man (but, see my last post...as a straight guy, I may not be the best judge ). However, I think he aged very well.

And, I think that many American women just melt at a British Isles accent. At one of my old jobs, we had a research supplier who would come in to give quarterly presentations. Those presentations were very poorly-attended, until Nigel (from England, of course) started giving them. To be truthful, Nigel was goofy-looking...but, by all the gods, that accent! Women in our office would come to the meeting, and just close their eyes to listen.