Thanks for the kind words folks ^.^ I'd totally do it...
In seriousness though, I don't live anywhere near any of their hiring locations, and I don't travel easily. Giving my feedback here, and to Larian directly, is the most I can really do ^.^
The main thing that I hope my work on this content has helped convince them of is to take the time to consult with other people knowledgeable on the topics in order to do it well - professionals that they *can* get into their offices and have proper back and forth conversations with, in the way that someone like me can't. Not just folks who are specialists in relation to scene direction, choreography and cinematography for intimate sequences, but also simply talking to people from various partnering groups, including men who sleep with men and women who sleep with women. I really hope that, for release, they've improved things in this department, fingers crossed.
There is so much more about the game that I'd like to be better as well, but my partners have (Gradually, Mostly) prevailed upon me to try to care less and to stop thinking about it as a D&D game, and just put myself into the mindset to enjoy it for whatever it turns out to be, as its own thing. I'd *like* it to be the D&D game we've all been waiting for for so long, but I'm fairly certain it won't be, and I've been working towards accepting that that is just how it will be, and that that will have to be okay... and with that in mind, I really want well made and enjoyable naughty scenes as part of my romance!
I am all for you doing this. Really I am for anything that upsets GM4him, in fact that should be the barometer of success here. (KIDDING)*
*maybe
Now, now. Kumbaya and all that. In mild defense of measured "chastity" (not really per se) in portraying intimate relations, sometimes less is more. That's not saying don't have it. What it's saying is if you go graphic or overt too often it can cheapen the whole thing. Make it seem frivolous. There's A LOT to be said in showing intimacy through a close shared experience. Personal words said in private settings. Secrets that were never thought to be shared being brought out into the open. The sort of emotionally charged closeness that comes with chemistry in any given situation. It's what comes before the sex in narrative that makes it satisfying, in that context is key, as with any scene in a narrative. It's like music. You can have these stunning sequences of swells sometimes, but if the song consisted solely of that, it would be bad.
What I'm really defending here is subtlety. In storytelling, there's the whole "show don't tell." Now in a cinematic with limited dialogue, you should mostly be doing showing. But a big idea behind showing is to get the meaning across without being overt. To express emotional meaning without showing "things" that provoke meaning. Convey ideas and emotions, not things.
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