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GamingPerspectives

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene is a husband and wife team that love Hobby Gaming. We play RPGs and Boardgaming and wish to share our love of this hobby with everyone we know.

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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 67:...

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2019/09/22

In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss the idea of Game Balance in RPGs. What does it mean, how is it employed and does it matter? Saul, as always, talks about his early RPG experiences and how game balance just kind of happened organically. As always Jolene reigns in Saul's trip down memory lane and bring his back to the topic. Thank you for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends. No music as freemusicarchive was acquired by another

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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 66:...

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2019/09/15

A mistake in an email sent by Modiphius announcing a newly published RPG called The Black Void, leads to Saul running a "One-Shot" of the new rpg with a call by the players to keep playing in that game. Saul and Jolene decided to talk about and give a quick overview of The Black Void rpg. The Black Void is self described as an esoteric fantasy RPG by Christoffer Sevaldsen. The book itself is very well written with great art throughout the entire book. It was Kick Started in 2017 and

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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 65:...

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2019/09/08

The Dream of many a gamer is that of Getting Paid to Play. Well at least in this case getting paid to GM a game. Saul always considered this kind of a pipe dream and not very possible. Then Saul read an article about a GM in San Francisco that gets paid over 500 dollars a session. Saul was reminded, by Jolene, about Becky Thomas of The Roleplay Workshop who has been making a living of GMing for over 25 years. Saul and Jolene decided to take the conversion to the microphones and share it

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02:03:26

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Bonus...

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2019/09/03

In this bonus episode Saul and Jolene recorded this episode of Gaming Perspectives at Pacificon on August 31,2019. In our second day we were joined by Gabriel Vega the producer of the show and we have a very candid talk with "Mondo" about his life running the show and outside the Pacificon Game Expo. We also get a treat as he sings his song about attending cons. We were also lucky to talk to Aldo G. who owned Impressions a game distribution company. Aldo tells us about in his words

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31:20

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 64:...

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2019/09/02

Saul and Jolene talk about their interest in Live Action Role Playing games. Over the years Saul's ideas and feeling toward LARPs has changed from thinking it a strange and weird offshoot of Roleplaying games. Over the years with Jolene's insight, Saul realizes that he has indeed played in three of his friend's home brewed LARP. Dressing up as become part of the fun. The last hurdle would be to LARP with strangers. Maybe at the next Game Con! As always, thanks for listening, and

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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Bonus...

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2019/08/31

We are at Pacificon a Labor Day weekend gaming convention in Santa Clara California. We were asked by Gabriel "Mondo" Vega to record our podcast from Pacificon and we gladly agreed. As with all our bonus "live" episodes this one was not edited. There is a lot of background noise due to the nature of recording in the middle of the convention. Still they are a lot of fun to do and we will be back tomorrow with another episode. As always thanks for listening and please share our

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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 63:...

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2019/08/25

Dresden Files is a favorite book series in Saul and Jolene's home. There happens to be two RPGs using the Fate system to run your very own Dresden Files game. In this episode, Saul and Jolene geek the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher and the Urban Fantasy genre in general. Saul discusses the many times he as run his own version of Dresden he dubs, Monterey Dresden since he uses Monterey Bay as the setting for his games. Saul has made 3 separate adventures and run each one at

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23:51

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Interview...

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2019/08/19

We Interviewed Stephen Price after he contacted Saul via the social networks telling us he and a group of friends were starting a new game convention in Milford MA. that will take place next year from April 17-19th 2020. We had a very good interview but unfortunately we lost over half of the interview. Still we wanted to publish this interview for any and all folks near this convention. The people working on this game con are committed to giving attendees the best possible gaming

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32:37

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 62:...

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2019/08/18

In this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about Actual Plays. Are they good or bad for RPGs. From the very well produced and acted ones like Critical Role to the people playing in their RPG Cave eating and drinking and talking over each other. Saul and Jolene discuss the different views of how "Actual Plays" can hinder RPGs and the people that play them and on the other hand how people see it as a positive to the RPG hobby. As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share

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46:40

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Bonus...

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2019/08/17

Gabriel Vega the Director of Convention Development and Organizer of Pacificon had some "Breaking News" and wanted to do and interview give Saul and Jolene first dibs on this News. Gabriel has been organizing Pacificon for the last 15 years here in the SF Bay Area. Gabriel has also started some smaller specific gaming and interest convention in the Central Valley. Saul and Jolene have been going to Pacificon since Gabriel bought the convention from previous owners. Pacificon takes place

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36:04

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 61:...

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2019/08/10

Things that you can easily do to immerse your players at your RPG table. Saul and Jolene discuss simple and cheap things you can do to get buy in from your players. From special character sheets, handouts, notes to maps, all these things and more can get your players really into the setting of the game. Saul discusses the different things he has done to get the players ready to play Dresden Files, Tekumel, Star Trek Adventures and other RPGs . So get creative and get ready

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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 60:...

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2019/08/04

Romance in RPGs, Saul and Jolene talk about why this has not happened much in their games at home. Romance can add an interesting element to any RPG games. Jolene finds an RPG specifically about romance. Actually a trio of rpgs by Emily Care Boss. This was not the romance in RPGs that Saul was thinking about, Saul was thinking of more of a courtly romance or adding a love interest to a PC character. Also discussed is romance between players and some pitfalls this might lead to. Jolene's

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38:10

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 59:...

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2019/07/28

Saul and Jolene talk about the OSR. What is it, why are there so many different versions. Why do people want to play this old style game. Saul remembers his Original D&D and AD&D days. Jolene did a bit of research in this nostalgic type of fantasy rpg style and found quite a bit of games and information. You can Find OSRIC here : http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/index.html Castle and Crusaders: https://www.trolllord.com/indexnew.html Dungeon Crawl

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41:56

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Bonus...

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2019/07/27

In this Bonus Episode we talk to Theresa D. a game board player(Scrabble) and game Ap developer. Saul and Jolene met Theresa at KublaCon game Convention in May and decided to talk more about her entry into board gaming and how it ties to her work at Temple Gate Games. Of course Saul digresses and stray off topics but Jolene as always is there to wrangle him back. We recorded this interview before July 4th but Saul and Jolene went on Holiday right after so this is published a bit later

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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 58:...

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2019/07/21

In this episode Saul and Jolene talk an old rpg Gamma World by TSR. It was the first RPG owned by Saul and it was Jolene's first RPG game she played way back in the early 80's. Saul and Jolene discuss all the iterations Gamma World that were published. From the first edition published in 1978 to 8th edition published in 2010. Saul has copies of 4 different editions. Saul and Jolene talk about why they liked the game. Saul discusses running the latest edition at local con in kids and

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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 57:...

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2019/07/14

Saul and Jolene talk about Ghosting in RPGs. So what is ghosting and where does this term come from. Saul listens to many podcasts and it was a term used on another gaming podcast called "Gaming and BS". In it a host talks about ghosting. Saul had never heard of the term and asked Jolene what it was about. Saul and Jolene discussed and laughed about this subject and decided to record and episode about this strange way of dealing with a problem player or group in RPGs. Why to gamers

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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene 56: The...

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2019/07/06

In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the Barbarian class in Dungeons and Dragons. From the first time Saul saw the optional class in 1985 in issue 63 of The Dragon magazine. The Barbarian has become known as the quintessential "tank" in D&D. Though Saul doesn't like the use of the term tank for the Barbarian class it really does fit. With the high hit points, damage resistance, high physical damage potential the Barbarian is a great class to play in combat situations. Saul

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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 55:...

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2019/06/30

Saul and Jolene discuss the buying of new RPGs. Why do people continue to buy new RPGs? If players and GMs like a particular RPG why would you buy new ones. What makes gamers continue to guy games even as their collection grows to the point they won't be able to play all of them? It is an interesting question which Saul and Jolene dive into. As Jolene marvels at the number of different RPGs on her shelves she knows that Saul will continue to look at and buy new RPGs. Saul says

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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 54:...

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2019/06/23

Today Saul and Jolene talk about Cathartic Gaming. In previous episodes this subject has been mentioned from time to time , but we thought it deserved its own episode. Saul gives the definition of the word cathartic and catharsis and then Saul and Jolene relate it to RPGs. The idea that all games are cathartic in one form or another the main difference is in scale. From simple diversion as one can have in reading a book or watching a movie or tv show, to a full cathartic moment where

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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 53:...

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2019/06/16

In this episode Saul and Jolene tackle the sensitive subject of feedback in your RPG game. Most GM's want to get information on how their games went and what they can do to improve on their game. The problem is, getting good feedback or constructive criticism. Saul and Jolene discuss ways of getting good feedback and lower the chances of feedback that just upsets you as a GM. Jolene reminds Saul of when criticism wasn't asked for and it upset him quite a bit and affected his gaming.

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