My favorite goal of one of my current campaigns is that a character wants to find a way to join two opposing factions together in order to set them against a 3rd. He wants to find a way to have the spirits of nature in the surrounding forest join up with the god of civilization set inside the city in order to overthrow a tyrannical government that has taken over the entire land. It leads to the players at the table, and certainly the PCs being really invested in the factions and the worldbuilding in general, and makes everyone really care about what is going on. It's also ripe for conflict, which is the engine of storytelling.

Welcome!

I'd love to be a part of this project. I've long wanted to work with a podcast about RPGs. I was on a small one once a few years ago, but the podcast died a few years later. I have two games going on currently, both in D&D 5.5. I love talking about storytelling in general, but especially RPGs as a story engine, and how this is a storytelling medium that is very different than other storytelling mediums. I love talking about why RPGs are a great creative outlet for people like me who were trained in both the humanities and the sciences. I can talk about the use of terrain and miniatures and immersion at the table, in terms of setting a scene and having the terrain match what you are trying to describe. I can talk about the medical aspect of D&D in terms of describing injuries realistically (I'm a husband, father, Dungeon Master and ER doctor...generally in that order).

It was fun chatting with everyone. Good group of people.

Likely not. Congrats on the promotion though.