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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FoolishFrost" data-source="post: 9834772" data-attributes="member: 24319">Back that up a touch.I will always say things to your face. That’s how discourse works. You don’t have to agree with me, and that’s fine. As far as ‘queer’ in this context? That’s lucrative and there are tons of it out there published.I also didn’t say I wanted you to stay in a lane. Never even hinted at it. I said publishing channels want it. This is a basic truth, they want books that sell. They look at what is selling. The quantify it into genre and tropes. They want more of what sells.If you mix genres, heist and cozy romance, publishers pull back. Yes, you might get someone to look at it and publish it. And maybe you have to self publish or sit on it for a bit until you have something else sold under your name.Anyway, my main point was that D&D is about adventure novels. Often high stakes, grand adventures. Dragonlance, forgotten realms, spelljammer, Planescape? Tons of novels. Romance was SOMETIMES a subplot. Never cozy, except as something to baseline how disrupted the characters lives are when the adventure starts.But yeah. They probably want onto the romance train. I just hope Wizards can leave the author alone to make something good, as opposed to micromanaging it into… well. Something not.</blockquote>