On current staff, I think Vinny is pretty much the only person who does D&D/roleplaying, and it's entirely off-camera with his...brothers, I think? I could be wrong, but I really can't recall anybody else mentioning roleplaying games. Yes, it's like Mario Party Party, except it takes practice to make it entertaining on camera and not get bogged down in looking up rules you forgot, it takes a ton of planning on the DM's part (unless you just want to use a prefab campaign), and it's honestly pretty difficult to record on camera since Giant Bomb would have to reconfigure cameras to create multiple camera shots of both the group and the closeups of the table.
The Pathfinder videos were pretty great but I got the impression that Ian and/or Dave were really the driving forces behind that happening at all. No idea how Avalon or D&D happened. D&D seemed especially ramshackle because (at the time it was recorded) I don't think Rorie was a very experienced DM. I'd say that "inexperienced DM + experienced players" can work because they meet each other in the middle and if the DM forgets a rule or something maybe a player happens to remember it, but "inexperienced DM + inexperienced players" (which is what the Unplugged was) just slows everything down as players are constantly asking stuff about how the game works and trying to break the game. I think Dan didn't even conceptually understand how it was supposed to work and whether he was supposed to antagonize literally everyone present or not, and no one really had the DM's back.
As burncoat points out, we do have the end of year roleplaying Beastcast that Austin runs, and he is tremendously talented at it. I'll settle for that, unless Austin magically rejoins Giant Bomb and wanted to make a regular roleplaying feature.
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