Welcome back to the Dungeon Master's Block, the place where we come to talk about the dungeon master.

The most important person in the game, the only person capable of playing God, killing characters, and lowering the egos of all the people at the table.

I am one of your host, DM Neal, aka Jop Maniac. And I am a DM Ian.

Yes. No, aka yet. No, not yet, but one day. One day will happen. Yes. So today, what are we

going to be talking about? We are going to be, in your words, republicizing. No, we started this

series on world building on governments. It was my very

first episode. We did monarchies and it's backed by popular demand and put to a vote on the

forums. You all decided that today, Neil and I are going to be looking at republics.

Definitely. Yeah, got a lot of good response, both on the forums, Twitter,

just generally about that episode, which, hey, good job. Way to set your bar really high, Ian.

I know, right? Yeah, Mitch was like, what do you want to talk about? I was like,

let's talk about governments. Let's talk about, like, the monarchy. Okay. Worked out. But before

we do that, we are going to do, as we always do, read an iTunes review.

And I have it right here.

So the five-star review comes from bits per second.

And they entitled it Super Helpful, One of the Best.

And they said, I search high and low all the time for podcasts

that provide meaty, thoughtful dungeon mastering advice. This is the one that I go to first.

Plenty of meat, not any annoying belching in my ear, which I find really interesting because I feel

like that's a thing that they experienced. And I kind of want to go listen to that podcast just

to experience it as well.

And lots of riffing off of each person's ideas to generate lots of ideas that can easily

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