What if a D&D designer designed the next American government? Mike Mearls & Christopher Robichaud: Ep 97
About this episode
The episode explores how game designers might influence the structure of a new American government through a conversation between Mike Mearls and Christopher Robichaud.
We're trying something different this week. I spend a lot of time talking to game designers and, of course, I'm a historian and history teacher watching the news every day. A thing I have personally become convinced of is that the United States is going to need a new constitution, and of course, I also spend a lot of time talking to game designers. Game designers, it would seem to me, have a lot to say about how one might want to structure a new government, but I didn't know of anyone having that conversation. So I decided to try it out myself. I managed to get 5E designer Mike Mearls together with Professor Christopher Robichaud of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for a conversation on how a game designer might shape a new American government, and that's what you are going to hear today. Now if you are a regular listener to this show, I hope you enjoy what you're about to hear, and I hope that the question of how a game designer would build a new government is far enough outside the left-right dichotomy that people across the political spectrum can listen. Right now, I don't have any further plans to have more conversations like this, so if you want more, you'll have to…
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