If you have a hot date planned, you’ll likely want something for you and your sweetheart to do other than gazing longingly into each other’s eyes. Sure, you could fall back on the classics: maybe hit some rounds of mini golf, watch a rom-com, enjoy a co-op video game, or check out the best Valentine's Day gifts for gamers. These are valid choices, I suppose … but what if you played D&D instead?
You only need to look at the raucous popularity of Baldur's Gate 3 or the prevailing D&D tradition of down-bad bards to see that RPGs are a great place to explore matters of the heart. As a genre centered on character progression and storytelling, it feels natural that romance would factor in somewhere. Yet I can’t help noticing the mysterious absence of the best tabletop RPGs in people’s love lives.
