The World of RPGs

Moritz Botts
This podcast is about tabletop role-playing games around the world. In every episode, I interview RPG enthusiasts and professionals from a non-English speaking country about what games they play, what unique RPGs exist in their country, and how new people get into the hobby. Interviewees include regular gamers, club organizers, game shop owners, creators of actual play videos, RPG authors, and gaming studios. While some places are known for their large role-playing scene and have a lot of local RPG systems, other regions of the world have smaller scenes and might not even have a single RPG in the local language. Every regular episode ends with a teaser for the next country – an excerpt from an actual play recording in that country’s language.
 
The aim of this podcast is to broaden our horizon and find out about RPGs from all over the world. Enjoy!

Episode 16 - Austria

2024-09-16 57 min

We stay in the German-speaking part of Europe with a shorter episode on role-playing games in Austria.

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Episode 15 - Germany Part 3

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Episode 15 - Germany Part 2

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In Part 2 of 3 we look at diversity and sustainability in German games and at the dozens of adaptations of English language games into German.

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2024-08-26 85 min

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