Jessica

If you like your romance books and you like your Dungeons & Dragons, jam them together and there you go.

And that's all the Dungeons & Dragons news and tidbits I have, really.

So we can move on to other things.

I don't know if you had anything D&D?

It's that time of year where there's not a lot coming out, is there?

Yeah, I mean, that's a common thing in storytelling.

They used to do it with people's wives.

It's called fridging the wife.

It's to give you meaning and a drive to go forward because someone you love died.

We'll just make it a generic woman.

She doesn't need any more information about her.

That's fine.

Yeah, no, I like doing that.

I mean, a big thing for writing backstories for me is to give the GM hooks for stuff to play with my characters.

That's a big part of it.

I'm like, here's all these things.

So here's the strings you can pull to motivate my character to get them to go in certain ways to match the story.

But yeah, yeah.

And family can be a great one for that.

I've had a lot of characters who have had very complicated issues with their, you know, relationships with their mothers because, you know, mothers and their daughters are classic trope in storytelling.