Mike Shea

Sometimes it's just a thing to be interested in and it doesn't have to affect our game for us to be interested in it.

I don't plan on shifting my direction of the Lazy RPG Talk Show to getting into like the RPG business punditry side.

There are other podcasts that enjoy talking about RPG business punditry.

Why I think it's important that we kind of draw a separation between RPG business punditry and the RPG game is...

is that when we know that it's kind of a separate hobby, it kind of lets us have room to enjoy that part of it.

Like we just get into the business to get into business, but also recognizing that if there's anxiety that comes in from it, if we're going, oh my God, there's so much change, we can always remember it's not the main hobby, right?

The main hobby is running games for our friends, right?

And that doesn't really change very much.

It doesn't have to change very much.

For some people, it doesn't change at all, no matter what happens in the industry.

So I think that that gives when by thinking about the separation of the RPG punditry as its own hobby is it gives us room to enjoy that part of it.

We could talk about it and pontificate and everything and keep it firewalled off from the other hobby, which is running games for our friends.

I don't have to tell people to shut up about the business because I don't think it affects the games for our friends.

And likewise, we don't have to pretend that the RPG business side is the hobby because it's not.

It's just this little side hobby.

So I think that that kind of came to me and I wanted to share that because when I think about like Chris Perkins and Crawford leaving for Darrington Press, and when we think about Jeff Lanzillo and Todd Kendrick leaving Wizards of the Coast, like these are big, interesting things.

how it's gonna manifest towards our game, who can say?

I think all of those changes are going to have an effect on the new products that come out over the next year.

Whether that affects your hobby is kind of up to you, which again is one of the reasons that I love this hobby so much, is we really get to decide what happens to our hobby.

But I thought that that separation felt good to me, like recognizing that made me feel good.