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Love, Sex, and Romance: The War (Will That Be All?) with Kim Lam
Episode 7
Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
Transcripts available at diceexploder.comToday we’re wrapping up the Dice Exploder series on love, sex, and romance with Will That Be All? by Graham Walmsley, a game about the social relationships between the downstairs staff at Melton Hall, a fictional British estate, over the course of about a decade between the first and second world wars.It’s a lovely game about finding solace and community even as the world outside feel deeply uncertain - and that’s what Kim wanted to talk about: how setting, and in this case the spectre of war, can encourage and affect how not just romance but relationships of all kinds can play out in a game.Further ReadingWill That Be All? by Graham WhalmsleyBreaking the Ice, and The Romance Trilogy, by Emily Care BossRosenstrasse by Jessica Hammer and Moyra TurkingtonDownton AbbeySocialsK Lam on Bluesky and itchSam on Bluesky and itchThe Dice Exploder blog is at diceexploder.comOur logo was designed by sporgory, our ad music is Lilypads by Travis Tessmer, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey.Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!Dice Exploder on Patreon
