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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 339: Brindlewood Bay as Closer Look, Gaming...

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2025/12/16

Saul and Jolene were invited to a weekend RPG event hosted by Bay, a very good friend of theirs. One game that both Saul and Jolene were eager to play was Brindlewood Bay. Saul was interested because of the way the “mystery” was “solved” and the use of PBTA rules. Jolene is a fan of mystery both in book and TV format. Jolene watches a lot of mystery shows from old to new, American TV to British style mysteries. Another good reason both Jolene and Saul wanted to play was that Bay is an

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39:13

Epiosde 338: Player Engagement, Gaming Perspectives...

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2025/12/03

When you are playing in a RPG, whether it is online or an in person game, keeping the player engaged in the game can be at times hard. Saul and Jolene over the years have noticed that some people find it hard to pay attention to the game during a session. Things that make people tune out of the game are many, from cell phones, side conversation, kids, significant other, boredom, the list goes on. As a GM what can you do to keep the player engaged at the game table. How much can a GM

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37:25

Episode 337: Adding a Player to an Existing Campaign,...

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2025/11/25

Reading Reddit posts Saul cam across a post about a problem that they had when they joined a new group with an on going campaign. The Poster was upset at a number of things that happened when he first started playing. They sought help with dealing with their problems since joining. Saul thought about things that could minimize problems like this Original Poster had. He talked to Jolene that had multiple questions about the situation.Though Saul didn't have a lot of information

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47:00

Episode 336: Lethal or Deadly RPGs, Gaming...

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2025/11/12

Saul was reading "RPG Reddit" posts and came across a person who described themselves as a 5th edition D&D player. In this post they wanted to know about games that were more "lethal" than D&D. They mentioned that D&D was too easy to survive.Saul mentioned it to Jolene. Saul went into his collection and found some RPG systems that were to his mind more deadly than D&D 5th edition. Saul realized that not all the systems were of the same genre, setting or tone. So why

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35:51

Episode 335: The Three Pillars, Gaming Perspectives...

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2025/10/31

In this Episode Saul was reading a blog where they discussed the Three Different Pillars of D&D. Saul went on to read other sources from other bloggers to Reddit posts about this idea of what makes a good D&D Game.Saul starting thinking about how some games or genres don't rely on these Three Pillars for running great sessions or adventures. He discussed it quickly with Jolene who had never heard of this idea and they decided to record an episode on this topic. Thank

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30:49

Episode 334: TTRPGs Niche or Big Deal, Gaming...

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2025/10/15

Jolene was looking at TTRPG topics and came across a Reddit Post where a user was asking why people consider playing TTRPGs a "niche" hobby. The original poster was quite surprised that people thought that TTRPGs are not that popular. There were quite a few replies to that post and most were proposing that TTRPGs are not that big of a deal in the hobby sphere. A number of TTRPG players in the U.S. that was quoted quite often was 50 million people in the U.S. play or have played TTRPGs. Saul

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35:56

Episode 333: Troika the RPG, Gaming Perspectives with...

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2025/10/02

Saul and Jolene went to a game convention over Labor Day weekend. Their first game there was a RPG called Troika. Saul had seen this rpg mentioned quite a bit in various posts. From "Best Ever Indie Game", to "Most Underrated RPG" and many other lists. Even though Saul had bought the PDF of Troika he had not yet looked at the rules, but had been very interested in what the buzz was about this RPG. So Saul and Jolene played Troika for the very first time. It wasn't the "usual"

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16:40

Bonus Episode: Galaxycon and Pacificon, Gaming...

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2025/09/17

Saul and Jolene went to a couple conventions in late August and Early September. In late August they went to Galaxycon in San Jose. It takes place in downtown San Jose at the McEnery Center. It is the largest convention center in the South Bay. Saul was really impressed with all the guest speaker, panels, activities that were available at Galaxycon. This was Jolenes and Sauls first time attending a Galaxycon. Both came away impressed with the con and it was a very fun experience for the

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28:56

Episode 332: Video To TTRPG Gamer, Gaming...

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2025/09/11

A listener, Phil, asked about how easy would it be for a video gamer to become a TTRPG gamer. At first glance it would be a no brainer that those that played video game on a conole or PC would move to playing TTRPGs. Saul and Jolene talked about some of those differences and what similarities that video games have to TTPRGs. There are 3.42 Billion video gamers compared to 50 million TTRPGs. Thank you all for listening. Website Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones Music

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39:33

Episode 331: PCs Running Away, Gaming Perspectives...

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2025/09/02

Many times there seems a point in an RPG when the players should either not fight an encounter. Why do players not consider the tactic of running away. Saul and Jolene discussed this topic. Saul admitted that he ran a lot of D&D and Pathfinder and the rules are set up for the GM to match the encounter to the level of the players. This comes from the rules to published adventures and modules that are tailored to a specific number of PCs and certain levels. Saul and Jolene decided

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55:34

Episode 330: Play Styles, Gaming Perspectives with...

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2025/08/26

Saul was reading and thinking about long campaigns and what it took to keep them going for extended period of time. Saul ran two D&D to Pathfinder Campaigns from 2001 to 2009. Then he started running campaigns for his 6 year old son and his friends. Saul ran another 2 campaigns starting with Pathfinder to D&D 5th edition which concluded right before the pandemic. What kept these 4 different campaigns going for an average of 4 and a half years each? The answer to that

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33:17

Episode 329: Attacks Before Initiative, Gaming...

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2025/08/15

Jolene was reading about a GM who was running D&D 5th edition had players trying to do combat actions before the GM had called for Initiative. She asked Saul about this and asked if it happened in his D&D or any other RPGs he had GMed. After a brief discussion they decided to do an episode on this subject.As usual Saul got a little distracted from the subject and expanded the scope of the discussion. Saul did keep it about combat before the GM calls for any kind of

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36:24

Episode 328: Players Not Learning the Rules, Gaming...

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2025/07/28

Saul was looking at Reddit posts and came across a GM that was lamenting that his players had not learned their characters abilities after 10 sessions of D&D 5th edition. The GM didn't go into too much detail, for example age of players, experience of players, etc. Saul noticed the large number of negative reaction to the players but those offered no real help abou this GM's plight. Saul discussed this Reddit Post with Jolene. She thought that just blaming the player and telling

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35:35

Episode 327: Running Non-Violent RPGs, Gaming...

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2025/07/14

Jolene was looking at the different types of games she has played in. Though she likes tactical combat games. She loves Shadowrun 5th edition and D&D for example, she also likes mysteries, dramas, and crime solving. So she asked Saul about what games do not concentrate on combat but other types of settings. Saul thought that games that do not rely on combat for the center piece of the genre they are emulating are generally non violent. Saul thought and looked at his RPG library

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50:25

Episode 326: Rotating GMs, Gaming Perspectives with...

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2025/07/06

Jolene was looking for some interesting topics to talk about and came across an article discussing Rotating GMs. She looked for more articles and there were quite a few articles and discussion on how to do this type of roleplaying.Jolene asked Saul and about it. Saul told her he had tried it a couple of times with various degrees of success. As they talked about it he started mentioning details and she remembered a couple other iterations of this idea. From Rotating GMs with different

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39:49

Episode 325: Things GMs Say, Gaming Perspectives with...

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2025/06/28

Jolene was reading online and came across an article that talked about things that GMs say that players should pay attention to. She told Saul and this and Saul thought about some things he says that conveys more than intended. Sometimes these comments from GMs are questions, in fact most of them are and it is at this time that players should really be paying attention to what is happening at the game table. Thank you all for Listening Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by

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37:08

Episode 324: GM Couldn't Kill PC, Gaming Perspectives...

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2025/06/13

Jolene was looking online at RPG topics and came across a confession by a new GM. This novice GM was running their first campaign which they had been running with new players for nine months. There was a point in the game were a character would have been killed but the GM pulled their punch. The character did not suffer a death. Even though there had been a Session Zero where the GM had discussed that Death of Characters was indeed possible. But when the time came that a character

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47:23

Episode 323: Stealing From RPGs, Gaming Perspectives...

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2025/06/06

A question was asked about what are some things that you found in one RPG that as a GM would Steal to use in all other RPGs that you run. Saul and Jolene each thought abou the topic and they each found something that they really liked that they believed could be "easily" used in a variety of RPGs. Saul made a short list of mechanics and ideas that he would use in RPGs he would run.Thank you all for Listening Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones

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36:37

Episode 322: Feedback Post Session, Gaming...

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2025/05/30

A listener was thinking about some games he played with a particular GM, who took a few minutes after the game asking how the session went. So this listener asked what would be the best way or some hints as to asking for feedback right after the session ends.Saul and Jolene discussed how this immediate feedback would be good or bad. As a GM that run games at Game Cons he is usually asked to run game multiple times since the number of seat at the game are limited and convention

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36:10

Episode 321: Best Non D&D Campaigns, Gaming...

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2025/05/21

A listener asked what we thought were some good Non D&D published campaigns? Saul questioned what makes a good, quality and fun campaign. Saul's criteria was the same if it was you home campaign but in a published one it is essential that the criteria that Saul sets out is met. There are many campaigns out that that would meet these elements so Saul picked the ones he liked the best or has had the most experience in playing or running the games.Saul comes up with 3 things every

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