Tag: romance

  • Inhabiting a Character: My Favorite RPG Leads

    Inhabiting a Character: My Favorite RPG Leads

    Role-playing video games are how I got into games in the first place. The ability to create a character is a liberating experience. It’s starts with how the character looks, then goes on to how the character acts in their world through my in-game decisions.

  • Favorite Quests #2: A Haunted Island in “The Witcher 3”

    Favorite Quests #2: A Haunted Island in “The Witcher 3”

    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a game of stories. They unravel as you explore the vast open world as Geralt, a witcher who hunts monsters with magic and a special sword. What I love about this game is how well-crafted each side quest is, until it doesn’t feel like a “side” quest but just another…

  • The Future is Weird in J.D. Robb’s “In Death” Series

    The Future is Weird in J.D. Robb’s “In Death” Series

    Lately I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of J.D. Robb’s In Death series. (That’s Nora Roberts, in fact.) It’s a science fiction romance series that’s actually more murder mystery than anything. The main character is Eve Dallas, a homicide detective who falls in love with a billionaire industrialist (or something like that) named Roarke. He also…