Looking for Love?

What is love? Not wanting to be alone, to have a counterpart in life; be it a satin sheathed concubine, a partner equal in every way, or even a masterful, protective lover. Denied, this emotion turns to desperation for attention, left in the dark it withers into bitterness and hate. It is a powerful, core emotion that cannot, and will not be denied.

While this may be more intense than the avenue of the average game, the lowly love potion, the focus of many a movie (Love Potion #9) and story is noticably abscent from the gaming milieu. Of course, a large amount of this can be written away for the fact that most view the love potion as a female fancy and most games are written to a largely male, largely single, largely adolescent/post adolescent audience.

The Citadel has quite a few husbands and fathers among it's ranks, no strangers to the wiles of love. (If there are any wives and mothers, I cant think of them off the top of my head, apologies) I think there is a sufficient level of maturity for such an article here, if not in the pages of Polyhedron, or Dragon, or whatever D&D mag is called.

I would break this down into three main avenues of interest.

1. Love, looking for that special someone. This would be the realm of divination magics, or joint conjuration, possibly even ressurection of lost loves. The modern analog being the match site, or dating company.

2. Lust, or the booty call. sometimes a prostitute isnt quite right, or inconvenient. Or perhaps it is a way to create a summon prostitute spell, or a spell-like item to convey a would be john to the brothel, outside of illegal grounds. Potions that foster love would fall into this area, as would most charisma enhancing items.

3. Showing Off - bigger is better, for the ladies and for the fellows. The list of false potions, oils, and magical devices should be a scoll in it's own. Spam is full of this sort of offer.