When Romance Met Comedy by Caroline Siede ran for four years as a fortnightly column at the A. V. Club (alternating with more related to this blog columns by
Tom Breihan about the most influential action and superhero films as well as overall box office winners year by year) and pinging back and forth in genre history. It closed out today having looked at vintage and modern classics, new arrivals, Shakespeare and Austen updates, edge cases with animated heroes and superhumans and more, an entertaining reminder that a genre I don’t really follow can contain more than I might guess.
I’ve talked about the tricky prospect of
romance in RPGs before, and while it’s featured mostly due to player interest it’s never been the central genre to play to for a series, while comedy has. As
Cyberpunk 2020 noted romantic plots not directly involving the PCs are much easier.
Would I try a romance-centric game? Maybe with a very select group. But I could swipe a number of stories from this list, and not just the cross-genre edge cases.
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