Steve Arnott
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315 appearances
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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So with your claim to fame and your insider knowledge of Dominic Monaghan, what do you know about Billy Boyd's upcoming character for the Crickle Roll show?
Jess, seriously, what's the point of having a co-host who's distantly related to Dominic Monaghan if you're not going to have this information?
Oh, like a behind-the-scenes sort of thing. Yeah, like a TV version of a director's cut or something.
It is incredibly different, yeah.
Yeah, Candela's not got very many points of comparison. Yeah.
I played a video game that has an ability like that. It was in Divinity. In Divinity, there's a spell that you can use that lets you stand in blood and soak it up and use it to revive and make your damage all stronger. It's very nice. It's a really good one.
I think it's more that you're absorbing the life force of the blood rather than the blood being... The blood itself? Yeah, the end itself.
Yes, exactly. As a Venn diagram of TTRPGs, cosplay, and romance, my book kind of sits in the middle.
The center of all three of those that I know of, yes, there are other romance books that sit in the middle of the Venn diagram between TTRPGs and romance. And I can talk about some of those if we want. But my book is called You've Got Chain Mail. It came out last month, so August 2024.
And yeah, it's about a group of friends that are playing D&D together and two of them fall in love because it's a romance novel, so that's not a spoiler. Mm-hmm. And yeah, it's definitely born of my own love for TTRPGs. And it's through the lens of someone who's a slightly newer player. So gives a touch point to the romance reader audience that may not be as familiar with it.
But another fun thing is that the campaign that they're playing out, I've actually included in sort of fantasy interlude scenes throughout the book so that you're able to see that
And I think like a lot of people that are new to TTRPGs, our characters are discovering that they're able to explore and do a lot of things sort of personality-wise and identity-wise within the game that they maybe aren't able to embrace as easily or in as uncomplicated a way in their real lives.
And so I really enjoyed exploring the dynamic there, you know, the friend group of people that are playing D&D together in the book. It's a really important part of the story and definitely comes from my love for my friends that I play with. So, yeah, it was definitely a marriage of all of my passions.
I wouldn't say it's a common theme, but it does happen. And I think it happens where it's happened. It's happened quite organically. I don't do it intentionally. I'm not one of those people that plays specifically for romance purposes. Yeah. But it definitely does happen. I'm playing, as Jess mentioned, I've got a Candela campaign that I'm a part of where my character is involved in.
romance with another PC. And there are two other PCs that are romantically involved together, and there are NPCs that people have been romantically involved with. I've been in games where none of that has happened. I've run games where there has been romance. I've run games where there's been no romance. But I think that
Unlike a romance novel, which that's kind of the whole premise, you come to it for that. I think unless you're playing a TTRPG that is specifically designed for romance or you're playing a romance-specific campaign or one-shot, then it needs to be done a little bit more intentionally than just the way it would happen in a romance novel. That's obviously the...
The fantasy version, fantasy obviously means something else when we're talking about TTRPGs, but romances are still fantasies to an extent, right? So, unfortunately, it doesn't play out exactly that way in real life. But I still think it's a lot of fun and I still think it's a worthwhile part of RPGs for myself.
I really enjoy it when those things do happen and they're done in a way that sort of honors everyone involved. Yeah.
But there's also different levels to it, right? Because you might be, when you're thinking of romance in TTRPGs, you might be thinking of two player characters who are in a relationship and are RPing the dates that they're going on. Like I did that last week. My character was RPing a date that my character went on. So that's like the super end of the spectrum.
The other end is just, you know, you've got an NPC that says something flirty to a PC.
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