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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode159: Describing Your Game Con Game.

     The topic for this episode was found by Jolene when she was looking at Game Hole Con's Facebook post which asked about how to go about describing their game for an upcoming  Game Hole gaming convention.  It was from a GM that had run games previously at Game Hole Con but they noticed a slightly different worded policy about adult content games.  
     So we decide to talk about how to describe your game for a game convention and possibly your friends.
     Now that large gathering are started to be permitted in Cities across the U.S. and people are feeling safer due to their precautions and the widely available vaccines, people are going back to Game Cons.  One of the first and largest is Game Hole Con in Madison Wisconsin taking place on October 21-24th 2021.
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    Music by Hasen Chat, song Play Your Game.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 158: The Bait and Switch

    Saul and Jolene discuss the Bait and Switch game.  It is when you, as the GM, present a game of a genre, a type a particular setting or even a system, but when the players sit down to play, you switch it up on the players and try to run something other than presented.  Saul discusses an idea with some fellow GM's and they inform Saul that its a bad idea and say its a "Bait and Switch" game.  Saul was thinking it was just a way to surprise the players and didn't think he was baiting and switching players.  Still he didn't run the game and years later still thinks he wants to try it but present more information about the game he wants to run.
     Saul and Jolene ran what they call the "Big D&D Game at DunDraCon" where they ran 3 tables of 6 players using 5th Edition rules.  Each table was a different genre but they were all connected by an over arching storyline.   Saul and Jolene discuss whether that was a bait and switch game.  
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  Music by Tamale Wally, song Switch U.
   Available from Tribeofnoise.com

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 157: Why Play RPGs?

     In this Episode Saul and Jolene discuss why play rpgs.  Many people who have never played an RPG don't have a clue as to what roleplaying is all about.  Usually they know about many misconceptions and stereotypes which Saul concedes might have been somewhat true in the 1980's but is now no longer valid.  Even in the 70's and 80's those stereotypes only matched a small percentage of the gamer population.  
     Saul and Jolene actually argue against those stereotypes and discuss how playing games, especially RPGs can help people socialize and promote positive social interactions.  Their experience with their son, their friend's kids and kids they have met at gaming conventions,  demonstrate how RPGs and help kids socialize, learn critical thinking, consequences for actions and use their imagination in very creative ways.  
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   Music by Temple Velocity,  song Wicked Games off the album Murder of Crows
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 156: Red Herrings in RPGs

     This week Saul and Jolene talk about fish.  Red Herring in RPGs is the topic.  Should GMs use this story idea in their RPG adventures?  Saul talks about his past experiences with Red Herring in the games that he has run.  
     Jolene likes the idea of using Red Herring as a way of making the world more expansive or more real. 
    Thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast.  
 
   Music by Darikus, song Mysterious.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 155: Making Skill Checks Exciting

     Skill checks can become too monotonous.  GM's often cringe when a PC fails a skill check to hear another player saying "I will check too." with the sound of rolling dice.  
    Saul discusses with Jolene how he thinks that use of "Skills"  can be made more fun and even more exciting by implementing a few ideas to your gaming style.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 154: A Traitor in Your RPG

     As a GM would you let a player, play a traitor in your Roleplaying game?  At a Con Game or in a One Shot would you as a GM make a character that is a traitor to be used by a player.   This week Mike asked about installing or using a traitor in your RPG.  He asked if it was a good idea or bad.  Mike also wanted to get our take on using this idea in an adventure or campaign.
      Saul would for the longest time say that was a hard "No!"  Much along the lines of playing an evil character having an embedded traitor in your adventuring party might be a game or group killing endeavor.
     Saul might have had his mind changed after buying and running the Alien RPG by Free League, where one of the types of characters is the "Company Man" who if you have seen Aliens the movie you would know why nobody would trust that character.

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode: Gabriel Garcia writer of War Stories a WWII RPG

     In this Episode Saul and Jolene interview Gabriel Garcia who is writing War Stories a World War Two RPG using the Year Zero system.  Saul came across Gabriel's post about War Stories on Facebook.  Saul has been a fan of supernatural WWII RPGs such as D20s Weird War II, Savage Worlds Weird War, and Saul even used Spycraft 2.0 to run a series of Weird War II adventures for his home group.  
     Seeing what he liked in War Stories playtest PDF he decided to ask Gabriel to do an interview and see who was this creator from Miami.  Turns out that this is not Gabriel's first foray in writing gaming material.  
    Listen and Saul and Jolene grill Gabriel Garcia about his gaming roots, his RPG street cred and why Year Zero engine for a World War Two RPG.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 153: Going Back to In Person Gaming

      As more and more people get vaccinated and the Pandemic is starting fade, the thing all gamers have been craving is In Person Gaming.  Saul and Jolene discuss moving some of their online games back to In Person gaming.   Saul and Jolene talk about what they like about gaming in person compared to online.  
     Saul ponders if there are some elements from online gaming that will continue when game go away from the virtual table and back to the dinner table. 
     What do gamers miss most from in person games?  What everybody else misses.  The list is long.  From food, to miniatures and terrain, to maps and mats, all of these are what people miss from roleplaying in person.  
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   Music by The Prisoner Reformed, song Going Back to Texas, off the album The Prisoner Reformed.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 152: Where Were We

     A question from the internet is this week's topic for the latest episode.  How do you restart or come back to a campaign that has been on an extended break?  Saul and Jolene discuss two ways to get back to your campaign in this episode.
    The first one is the easier one, and that is just start exactly where you left off.  This seems like the best and easiest way to restart or come back to a campaign.  There are some things you can do to make this a smoother transition in getting back to the action.  Saul and Jolene discuss before taking the long break is to take good notes.   Saul and Jolene also discuss recording your sessions.  This is very easy now as most games are online but as you transition to in person games, it requires a bit more work.
    The other and possibly more fun option according to Saul is letting a bit of time to pass in the game world and then ask the players where and what their characters have been up to during the break.  Saul suggest a passage of 6 to a year of game time passing giving the characters plenty of time to travel and accomplish some important tasks.
    Thank you all for listening.  All we ask is that you share our podcast. 
    Music by Rain of Kings,  song Where Were You?
    Available from Tribeofnoise.com 

Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode: Paul Mitchener

    In this bonus episode Saul and Jolene interview Paul Mitchener creator of Liminal an urban fantasy rpg based in England and it's folklore.  Liminal was successfully Kickstarted by funding 6 times it goal.  Liminal uses a very creative 2d6 system in which you can create a wide variety of character in little time.  Recently Paul Kickstartered Out of the Ashes a fantasy post apocalyptic rpg.  Out of the Ashes will use a similar dice mechanic but instead of 2d6 it is a 2d10 system.  
     Saul and Jolene ask about his geek history, and Paul has plenty of geek cred and he is a Professor of Mathematics at Sheffield University.   
      Saul and Jolene really like the bonus interviews as we see that though we may come from varied backgrounds and countries we all share something by being RPG gamers.
   Here is the link to the Liminal KS page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/9257403/liminal-rpg?ref=discovery&term=Liminal%20rpg
    Here is the link to the Out of Ashes KS Page:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/9257403/out-of-the-ashes-2/posts/3170073
    Please consider donating to the following charity mentioned in a previous episode.
 
    The Charity is called the RPG Creators Relief Fund.  Please give if you can.  
     http://www.rcrfcharity.org/
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