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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Episodes
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss how different RPGs make you "roll" up a character. They also discuss how they prepare to make their characters even before making any kind of dice roll or character creation decisions. In some RPGs character creation can be quick or a long process but there are always choices that players make when making a character.
Thank you all for listening,
Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Web Art by Jim Foster
Music by Komihu, song You, Yourself and the Main Character, from the album Its Time for Adventure.
Available form Freemusicarchive.com
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
For this episode Saul and Jolene talk about Episodic and Long Arc campaigns. How they are different and what to expect from choosing to run a campaign in either style Saul has mostly run campaigns in the episodic style. Though lately, within the last 10 years has run the long arc campaigns. A couple where he came up with his own storyline and another rather famous published campaign. While Saul really is torn to which he likes better but he finally decides which he likes better.
As always thanks for listening.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
RPGs go out of print for many reasons. Is it a good idea to buy an RPG that will be going "Out Of Print"? Saul and Jolene discuss the idea of buying RPG books that will be going out of print. There are many reasons that a gamer might want to play RPGs that will no longer be printed. Saul comes up with 3 different reasons why someone would buy a game that will no longer be supported and Jolene picks which one is Saul.
As always thanks for listening.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by Faces of Madness, song Rusted Memories of a Hero,
from the album Rusted Memories.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Saul and Jolene discuss updating old and usually out of print games in this episode. Saul and Jolene look at three, new modern takes on some old RPGs. The old rules are either hard to get a hold of, because they are out of print, or the rules are written in a hard to understand style.
Saul and Jolene discuss how updating the rules could bring these games to a generation of players that may have never heard of these fun games. The games discussed are Matt Kays Mutants in the Now, Everyday Heroes and modern interpretations of D&D editions for Original to 4th edition.
We would like to thank all our listeners as we just passed four years of podcasting.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by The Ghosts of Vegas, song Modern Love.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Saul when running his D&D games has never allowed Evil Characters or Assassins. Though Saul had this rule he didn't have to enforce for 25 years as a GM. Many GMs often have limits in their games. GM's often restrict such things as certain races, Alignments, Classes, "broken characters" and many other reasons in many different games.
Saul and Jolene discuss this topic in this episode. Is it good, bad and how is the best way to deal with players that want to play those things that are on the "No Play' list.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by Franco Pellegrini, song Historias
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about describing scenes in RPGs. Saul and Jolene discuss how some quick and simple use of descriptions can add quite a bit to your roleplaying sessions. Not only does it help getting the players engaged but also helps keep the game from getting too stale.
Thank you all for listening. We ask that you share our podcast with your friends and family.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by Alpegon, song Insight.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Saul and Jolene received an email from a friend who was complaining about RPGs that makes things harder by changing well known game terms for ones that are more evocative for their game setting.
Saul and Jolene looked into the game he was complaining about and they agreed that because the creators of the RPG were trying to be really immersive, they were making it more difficult to actually learn the rules.
Even after looking at videos on how to play it became very evident that those in the videos were having some difficulty explaining the game's concepts. Saul and Jolene decided this was a good topic for an episode.
Thank you all for listening.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by KLNDVC, song Infinite Confusion, off the album Fresh Beets.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Its been a couple busy weeks since the recording of this episode. It was recorded the week before Saul and Jolene went to Kublacon a gaming convention in Northern California. It was a very well attended convention post Covid shutdowns. So the getting ready for that convention delayed getting this episode edited and published.
Jolene and Saul have mentioned Vampire many times in previous episodes of this podcast. Jolene thought it would be a good subject to discuss on the podcast and deserved it's very own episode. Though Saul never has played Vampire he has played Werewolf twice, which shares the same game world and system as Vampire.
Though they have never played Vampire Saul and Jolene realize the impact that Vampire and the rest of the World of Darkness games have had in the world of RPGs. With is gritty "Punk Gothic" themes Vampire hit the RPG world by storm. Not only selling very well but also being very impactful to the Live Action Roleplaying scene.
Thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with friends and family.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by Vitne, song Masquerade, off the album Jupiter.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Getting the players on the right track to the adventure that the GM has prepared is sometimes a bit of a problem. Sometimes the GM's Plot Hooks are too vague, too numerous, or too obvious that the players don't follow the path to the adventure prepared. Saul and Jolene discuss ways that could make it easier for your players to go down the right path onto the adventure.
As usual Jolene scours the internet to find GM horror stories of Plot Hooks that just did not hook the players interest. Even Saul is befuddled by how such obvious plot hooks could be ignored by the players. Saul and Jolene give some tips on making plot hooks, and how to present them so your adventure doesn't have a rough start.
As always Thank You All for listening and please share our podcast with Friends and Family.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by Jahzzar, song Storyteller, from the album Traveller's Guide.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about their favorite monsters and Jolene checks out the internet and finds tons of the "Peoples" favorite monsters. Saul has been playing since 1978 so just in D&D alone from then to now he has fought and used a plethora of monsters in that time.
Saul shares a couple of his favorites from the Fantasy genre that he has used as a GM and many popular ones that he has not yet used.
Jolene talks about the favorite she has as a GM. Jolene also shares some monsters that made many peoples favorite monster lists.
As Always Thank You All for listening.
Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Hosting Page art by Jim Foster
Music by SmackaBBrit, song Monsters Playground.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com