About this episode

Rob Daviau joins the hosts to discuss the practicalities and challenges of RPGs and GMing.

Today, Rob Daviau joins us again after a year to contribute to a conversation about RPGs. Dirk, David, and Rob talk about some of the practicalities of RPG's and GMing, as well as some of the problems that have arisen through both the tariffs and the lack of face to face gaming. A meaningful conversation that opens up some deeper ideas in the RPG and GM world.

People in this episode

Hosts: Dirk Knemeyer, David V. Heron

Guest: Rob Daviau

Topics covered

• RPGs
• game mastering
• face to face gaming
• tariffs
• game design

Keywords

• RPG
• game mastering
• tariffs
• face to face gaming
• game design

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