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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 142 Learning New RPG Rules

  If you play any games you need to learn the rules, and RPGs are no different.  Most likely you play or are interested in a new game that is published and you have to Learn New RPG Rules.  Saul and Jolene in this episode discuss learning the rules of new RPGs, or RPGs that are new to you.
   If you are learning a new, recently published game then, according to Saul, you are in luck since we are in a "Golden Age" of RPGs.  Jolene isn't as convinced about this "golden age" but does admit that some newer rpg games are much better written than old ones.  Jolene mention her attempt to make a character using the Little Black Books of the original Traveller game, and comparing that to making a character in Liminal. Liminal uses the same 2d6 game mechanic as Traveller but that author has almost 50 years of roleplaying games as examples of rpg design.
     As Always, thank you all for listening.
   
    Music by My Heart Your Thunder,  song New Rules.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 141: New Editions of RPGs

    In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the reasons to look at and buy a new edition of a RPG.   Some reasons for a new edition are fixing errors as simple as typos, rule contradictions, or a reworking of a task resolution system to make the game run smoother are good reasons for a new edition.  Do the rule changes till does it warrant buying a new edition?  Listen and find out what Saul and Jolene think of new editions of roleplaying games. 
    As Always we thank you for listening.  Please share our podcast.
 
   Music by Hansen Chat,  song Play Your Game
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode140: Armor in RPGs

     In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss armor in RPGs.  Saul and Jolene discuss the most popular ways armor is represented in RPGs.  From D&D's Armor Class to Traveller's ablative armor.  Each way armor is handled is a mix if how easy one wants to express the use of armor in a RPG against how realistic the game wants to represent armor.
   Games discussed are D&D in all its iterations, Traveller, Liminal, Shadowrun, GURPs, The One Ring.  They each handle the often discussed issue of armor in RPGs in at time extremely different to slightly different ways.  
   As Always thanks for Listening.
 
  Music by Blueprints and Armory,  song Need You.
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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 139: Light RPGs

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about Light RPGs.  Saul defines what he means by "light" RPGs and gives examples of what he considers light RPGs.  Saul and Jolene discuss RPGs from Tales From the Loop to the one page RPG called Lazers and Feeling.
    As Always Thanks for Listening. All we ask is that you share our podcast.
 
   Music by The Curtains and Their Terrifying Story, song Say Light off the album, Shake My Fire.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 138: Crunchy RPGs

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the term "crunchy" in RPGs.  Saul, again, goes way back to the beginning when he first started playing roleplaying games, and the first game he played was Original D&D.   Saul does this to explain why he thinks the roots of OD&D being where crunch comes from.  How OD&D set the standard of how a RPG should look and who played RPGs back in the late 70's and early 80's. 
    Saul and Jolene talk about the early RPGs from D&D, Traveler,  Space Opera, Aftermath and Shadowrun and how they were pretty complex sets of rules.  
    Saul states though the first players of RPGs came from miniature and wargames back in the 70's and 80's that is not the case today.  
    As Always Thanks for listening and please share our podcast with your friends and family.
   Music by Young Drivers, song The Game.
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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 137: Liminal RPG

      In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss the Liminal RPG by Paul Mitchener.  It is a modern urban fantasy RPG set in England.  Saul received a free PDF from Modiphius and it garnered enough of an interest that Saul bought a physical copy of the rules.  Saul ran the game twice in two days over a weekend and the game was well liked by the players in two different groups.
      Saul and Jolene cover the rules, the setting content and how what they liked about the game.  Of course Saul digresses a couple of times but Jolene is there to get him back on track.
     The creator of the game, Paul Mitchener has another RPG on Kickstarter, a post apocalyptic game called Out of the Ashes, with a 11 days left at the time of publishing this episode.  It uses a similar simple system used in Liminal but instead of 2d6 die mechanic, Paul switches to a 2D10 die mechanic.  The RPG is funded and now is just unlocking stretch goals.  Check it out.
    As Always thanks for listening and all we ask is the you share our podcast. 
     Music by David Cohen, song Hidden in Plain Sight.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 136: GMing Styles

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about GMing Styles.  Saul and Jolene discuss how your GMing style impacts the games that you run from type of adventure to actual the RPG that you like to run.  Your GMing style not only determines the adventures and RPG game you run but the players that you run games for.  
    Some players may not want to play in certain types of games and your GMing Style should coincide with your players.  If it does not then either the GM or the players will not find the game very engaging or fun.
   Saul and Jolene discuss how you can mitigate any problems that arise from your GM Style and players desires. 
  As Always Thank you all for listening and please share our podcast with friends and family.
 
  Music by L-xir,  song Crush Style.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 135: Playing More Than One Character

      In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss playing more than one character in a RPG.  Saul begins the discussion with playing back in the ole days of D&D where people would "play" a character of a player that could not make the session.  Saul admits they really didn't RP those characters but just went through the mechanics of playing the missing players character.  
      From there Saul talks about friends playing with more than one character due to not being able to attend games on a regular basis and would instead play with his brother, a GM and one player.  Saul discussed how playing like that made it necessary for the player to play more than one character.
     The discussion moves to reasons why player today might want to play more than one character from not wanting to have any down time, to completing a "balanced" party.  
     As Always thank you all for listening and please share our podcast with family and friends.
 
   Music by Jim Gaven, song More For You and Me,  from the album Gift of Love

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode134 New RPGs in 2021 Part Two

        Part two of New RPGs for 2021.  Well new RPGs that Saul is really looking forward to in 2021.  In a more quick shotgun style of listing games, Saul rattles through more RPGs that are slated to be published via Kickstarter, pre-order or traditional publishing.
      As Always, thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast.
    Music by Nathan Brumley, song Games That Play Us, album Shay Watson.
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      For more info on the games talked about follow the links below:
 
  Iron Kingdoms:    https://home.privateerpress.com/ikrpgrequiem/
  Stargate RPG:      https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyvrengaming/stargate-roleplaying-game
  Altered Carbon RPG:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/huntersbooks/altered-carbon-the-role-playing-game
    Interface Zero:    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/821979583/interface-zero-30
    Dune 2D20 RPG:  https://www.modiphius.com/dune.html
   The One Ring 2nd Edition.  There is no real official information on the 2nd edition by Free League but here is an interview with the designer of the first edition on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaRwhmAw95o
   Pendragon 6th Edition:  https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-adventure-of-the-great-hunt-a-quickstart-preview-of-greg-staffords-ultimate-edition-for-the-pendragon-rpg/
    Pathfinder for Savage Worlds: https://www.peginc.com/big-surprise-for-savage-worlds-announcement-thanksgiving/
  Werewolf 5th Edition:  https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/news/2019/12/7/werewolf-the-apocalypse-5th-edition-coming-in-2021
   Root the RPG:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magpiegames/root-the-tabletop-roleplaying-game
 
    

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 133: New RPGs for 2021 Part One

     Happy New Years to Everyone.  In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss, well mainly Saul does, the most anticipated games for Gaming Perspectives.  Not even covering all the RPGs that are slated to be published in 2021, Saul and Jolene discuss over two podcasts the RPGs they are most interested in playing or running.
     Discussed in this episode are Flames of Freedom Kickstarted in the 2nd half of 2020 will be published in 2021. 
 More info at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimandperilous/flames-of-freedom-powered-by-zweihander-rpg
    The next game Saul is looking forward so is Beowulf: Age of Heroes.  Saul really liked the art of Jon Hodges, who did the are for The One Ring published by Cubicle 7.  He started Handiwork Games to publish is projects from RPG gaming tiles to Beowulf.            The main thing that sets Beowulf from other games is that this is for one GM and one player.  Using the super popular 5th edition rules heavily modified for fun adventures with a single player taking the role of a heroic character to battle evil.   Filled with his art the book promises to be a beautiful RPG book. 
      More info at:
       https://handiwork.games/beowulf
   The third game discussed is Twilight 2000 a game that first saw the light of day in the 1980s by GDW.  It is a crunchy game. GDW published lots of supplements such as adventures, stats for arms, vehicles and different settings.  Free League the makers of Tales from the Loop, Mutant Year Zero and other great games is working on the newest edition of Twilight 2000.  They are keeping the 2000 time line, and are using a modified version of their house rules that power their games.  
      For more info:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/twilight-2000-roleplaying-in-the-wwiii-that-never-was  
     Saul talked so much about those games, the other games to be covered had to be pushed back to another episode, Part 2. 
   As Always, thank you all for listening, please share our podcast and Happy New Year to Everyone!
May this year be better than the last.
 
 Music by Timbrelane, song Wargames off album American Vain.
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