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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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Episode 309: New RPGs for 2025, Gaming Perspectives...

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2025/01/03

It is the New Year and as we look forward to 2025 EN Publishing asks what New RPGs we are looking forward to the New Year. Saul choose his top three and discusses some of the games that made the list. Saul noticed quite a few games are getting a 2nd edition and other are being resurrected from the way back machine and are getting a new edition thanks in no small part due to Kickstarter and other crowd funding platforms.As we enter the New Year we would wish everyone a better 2025 than we had

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39:57

Episode 308: Reading the Rulebook, Gaming...

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2024/12/22

There was a post on Reddit about how RPGers read rulebooks for new RPGs before they ran a session. The answers at first were vey like minded. People stating that they read the rulebook completely. From reading it once to reading the rulebook from cover to cover multple times. Saul was a bit shocked at reading these posts since he had never read a RPG Rulebook that way. As Saul read more he found posts more aligned with his style of reading a rulebook. If you consider jumping from section

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37:52

Episode 307: Playing Yourself, Gaming Perspectives...

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2024/12/12

Saul was reading Reddit posts and came across a post about players playing themselves too much in RPGs. There was quite a bit of a discussion and most respondents said they didn't play themselves at all because they didn't want to play their boring lives.Saul on the other hand thought that he had for most of his RPG life had played himself or an aspect of his personality in the game. Usually a one dimensional character. As Saul got older he started to branch out and play characters

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34:10

Episode 306: Lower Player Count RPGs, Gaming...

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2024/11/27

Jolene was looking online and found a person who was asking for help. They had never GMed a RPG and they only had two players. The person was asking if there were any games that were made for one GM and two players. Jolene asked Saul about this and after a brief discussion they decided to do an episode on the subject.Jolene and Saul have an episode dealing with single player games, one Saul remembered was Ghost Dog which is a RPG based on the movie of the same title. It is a RPG where

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37:45

Episode 305: Changing the Adventure, Gaming...

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2024/11/21

A listener and friend asked Saul and Jolene about a question his daughter had asked him. The questions was, "Should a GM change a dungeon campaign after the players make characters that can see in the dark." The GM designed the dungeon with the idea of limited visibility of the characters due to it being pitch black in the dungeon. Slightly upset at the characters the GM decided to change the dungeon. Is it okay for the GM to change the adventure after devulging information of the

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Episode 304: Making an RPG Based on a Computer Game,...

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2024/11/13

In this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about making a RPG from a computer game. This was from a question that Saul read online about a father that wanted to make a RPG for his kids that played Destiny 2. Saul thought he recognized the game and even thought he had the older computer game but he was thinking of Mass Effect 2. Still Jolene and Saul discussed the trials and tribulations of making your own RPG. It has been Saul's belief that making your own game would be a big work and time

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40:19

Episode 303: Light RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with...

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2024/10/30

Saul was looking at Reddit and found a post about how the person didn't like playing "Lighter" RPGs because they were more work for him in roleplaying than a crunchier systems like Pathfinder. Others also agreed and added comments about why they didn't like RPGs. Saul and Jolene have tried a few "Light RPGs". Games like Kobolds Ate My Baby, Sleepaway Camp, The Quiet Year, Tales From the Loop and others. Listen to hear what Saul and Jolene have to say on the subject.

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01:06:03

Bonus Episode: Why We Still Play Round Table, Gaming...

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2024/10/23

Saul and Jolene decided to ask a question of their gaming friends, Felipe, Cipriano and Michael, "Why do you still game after playing for so long." Saul has been gaming with Felipe, his brother, since 1978, with Cipriano right after that and Michael since Junior High. Though some of them had some short stints of not playing here or there, Saul and his friends are still playing RPGs today. So why do they still want to play? Listen and find out. Thank you all for Listening

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35:16

Episode 302: Pre-Session Question, Gaming...

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2024/10/21

This episode comes from Jolene surfing the internets and finding a post on Reddit. She mentioned it to Saul and they talked about this idea. Saul remembered that at some Convention Games a few GM's did this to get the players ready to enter the world of the game, break the ice between players and do some information dissemination. Thank you all for Listening Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones Music by Shirley Jones, song Questions, off

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41:51

Episode 301: Top 3 Forever RPGs, Gaming Perspectives...

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2024/10/09

A question was floating around in social media and on Reddit, that if you only had three RPGs to play for the rest of your life which ones would they be. Saul was intrigued of whittling down all his favorite RPGs down to three that he would play forever if he had only three to play. Saul and Jolene discussed it a bit and though Jolene didn't like the idea of paring down the RPGs she liked to just three though she reluctantly did come up with a final 3. Saul was a bit more

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33:15

Episode 300: Favorite Combat Mechanics, Gaming...

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2024/10/01

Since Jolene and Saul have been playing various RPGs they have been discussing what they liked and did not like about the RPGs. One thing they zeroed in on was combat in the different RPGs. It also made Saul think about some game mechanics he had seen from some pretty old games like Space Opera, TOP Secret SI and many others. Saul and Jolene discussed how each game dealt with Combat Mechanics. Some of them they liked others not so much. This epiosde was born out of the discussion

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39:27

Episode 299: Stealing the Spotlight, Gaming...

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2024/09/22

There have been times that a certain player at your table took charge of the table or maybe was the leader at the table. Heck back in the ole Days, there was a player who was, "the Caller". It was their job to talk to the GM and tell the GM what the players were doing. It was a way to speed up game play. Saul once played in a game where they took this idea to heart and only The Caller would talk to the GM. The Caller could even countermand what the player had told the Caller what they

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Episode 298: Time Travel RPGs, Gaming Perspectives...

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2024/09/12

Saul and Jolene recieved an email from a listener Morgan who had some suggestion for episode topics. Thanks Morgan! One of the topics was Time Travel RPGs. Saul and Jolene thought it was a good topic and discussed several TV shows that had time travel episodes or where about time travel. They came up with way too many shows to discuss, so Saul picked his top 4 shows. Then the discussion began about what if any RPGs were about time travel. Saul looked on RPG.net and was

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01:20:58

Bonus Episode: Interview with David G from Kublacon,...

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2024/09/10

In this episode Saul and Jolene interview David Gabriel of Producer of Kublacon Conventions. Kublacon is the SF Bay Area Largest gaming convention that takes place over Memorial Weekend. But this year they are putting on Kublacon Fall Veteran's Weekend. It will be the first year this event is happening. So if you want to ease your way into a Kublacon, this is the way to do it. The following prices have a Tabletop events fees of a couple dollars. A Weekend Pass is 40 bucks for the whole

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41:30

Episode 297: Confused Players, Gaming Perspectives...

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2024/09/04

Saul and Jolene were discussing mystery shows and came across a reddit post. The post was from a GM complaining about how his players are not getting all his clues that would point the PCs toward the Big Bad Guy. The GM was lamenting how much work he had been doing on the campaign. The GM had made maps, developed numerous NPCs, many of which had informaton that they could give the PCs only if they questions those NPCs. Many others posted some advice about what may be going on but

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Episode 296: Generational RPGs, Gaming Perspectives...

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2024/08/31

Saul and Jolene were talking about long campaigns. The discussion lead to games were character played gernerations of a character. I was thinking how many generations one could play and what RPGs make it part of their system or setting.The first game that came to mind was Pendragon. A friend of mine ran the Great Pendragon Campaign for some fellow gamers. That GM runs games where "Death is On the Table" according to him. Which to me means he is a no holds barred GM and if the dice

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01:15:31

Interview of Dave and Matt of the Effekt Podcast,...

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2024/08/27

Bonus Episode, an interview of Dave and Matthew from the Effekt of podcast. Saul and Jolene interview the very likeable chaps from the UK. Not only do they have a very successful podcast called the Effekt podcast which mainly deals with Swedish RPGs but they discuss all kinds of RPG topics. They also have been working on a gritty, Western RPG called Tales of the Old West using a version of Free League's Year Zero system. Their Kickstarter will launch in early September. They have a

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38:20

Episode 295: Sanity in RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with...

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2024/08/19

Saul and Jolene were discussing the Sanity stat in CoC and if any other RPGs used some sort of Sanity stat in games. That lead to Saul and Jolene to think of other games where the mental conditon of the character was kept track. What seemed like would be a short list of games became longer and longer. It seemed that quite a few games included a way of determining the mental state of the character. This surprised both Saul and Jolene. They game used many different

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46:35

Episode 294: Mechanics Vs Setting, Gaming...

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2024/08/07

This episode came about when Saul was reading Reddit Posts and came across the question of what was more important in a RPG, Mechanics or Setting. Saul noticed many posts that sided with the idea that it was "mechanics" that was more important one of the two. A few chose setting but they were largely outnumbered by those that thought mechanics were more important in RPGs.Saul brought this up with Jolene and after a lengthy discussion they decided to do an episode on this subject.

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Episode 293: Non Violent Encounters, Gaming...

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2024/07/31

Jolene read a post from a father of three young daughters who he wanted to run a roleplaying game for but one daughter was very adverse to combat and violence. Jolene talked to Saul about the post and they discussed the various games they had run for very young and new RPGers. When their son was young, Saul regularly ran games at local con for kids. From D&D to Gamma World, Saul ran "kids" games at con for several years. Jolene has run games for her son and his friends at home. She also

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