315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal
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Hi, I'm Kelsey Dion from the Arcane Library, creator of Shadow Dark, and you're listening to Morse's unofficial tabletop RPG talk.
This week, Morse and Jessica are joined by Sam Park to talk about romance, and you've got Shane Mail. In the news, Hasbro CEO Chris Cox talks about AI in Dungeons & Dragons, a PayPal error cancels some players' handbook pre-orders, Discworld RPG is headed to Kickstarter, and more! This week on Morse's unofficial tabletop RPG talk!
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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Morris' unofficial tabletop RPG talk. I am Russ, a.k.a. Morris, or Morris, a.k.a. Russ. And with me this week is...
It's me, Jessica, from EM Publishing, and we have a special guest co-host with us this week. And when she runs a TTRPG, it does not stand for Tabletop RPG. It stands for Time to Romance My Players in the Game. We have a romance author, Sam Parks, joining us.
Hello, hello. I love that very much. No one has ever described me that way, but I think it's going to be my new tagline.
Isn't it wonderful?
And I am equally impressed by how Jess did that in just one take.
I'm trying my best. I've only had one coffee today. Bear with me, bear with me. But yeah, no, excited to have Sam here because we're going to be talking later about romance in tabletop RPGs. And Sam, you have the unique blend of skills of being someone who plays games, runs games, and is also a romance author as well. So I thought, what a perfect blend of genres to bring it together and talk about it. Because Russ is very confused whenever I discuss this topic on the podcast.
I wouldn't say confused. It's a strong term.
Yes, it is definitely something I have a lot of fun with, both in my books and in my games. So yeah, looking forward to get stuck in.
Okie dokie. Right, well, before we get onto that, shall we have a look at some of this week's RPG news?
Yes, many things have happened.
It has been quite a week, actually. Where should we start? I don't even know where to start. There's so much that's happened this week. Okay, let's start with... If you're in a Canada, one of our calendars, Toronto specifically...
I am not, but carry on.
I am not either. There is a Dungeons & Dragons themed touring experience starting soon.
Oh, what is this?
I'm not 100% sure what it is. So it was announced by Hasbro. Okay. And the details are scarce. It's called The Immersive Quest, a D&D experience.
Okay.
It's launching in Toronto. It's been announced by Hasbro, but at the moment, I mean, I couldn't find any details about it or anywhere where I could... buy tickets not that I was going to buy tickets but anywhere that I you can buy tickets so I guess more information is coming soon but what what we did find was they did one based on Minecraft a while back and I'm wondering if it's going to be similar to that what was the Minecraft one is it like at a venue and you it's like a walk around and there's activities or yeah so you you it takes about an hour
Okay.
Well, it took about an hour and you explore this sort of Minecraft world and there was this interactive scavenger hunt thing that you could do. So I guess something like that. I don't know.
That does sound cool. I once did a pop-up Star Wars event. But that's where we put on, like, not AI, VR headsets. That's the one. And had those little body suits and we got guns and stuff and we all looked like stormtroopers. And basically the rooms themselves were probably just blank rooms.
Oh, I wanted to do that. It was really good fun. My brother told me about it. We didn't get around to doing it. Oh, that sounds so much fun.
It was. I wonder if it's going to be something like that, but maybe instead of being VR, it's physical stuff, props and things. Okay, well, thank you for that informative news item.
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