What if a D&D designer designed the next American government? Mike Mearls & Christopher Robichaud: Ep 97

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 let me hear about it. Comment to this video, share it around, and I'm attaching a link to a survey in the show notes. If you love this and want more, let us know. If you hate it, frankly, I want to know that too.

But now, here's Mike Mearls and Dr. Christopher Robichaud.

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