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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Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Saul and Jolene are back to chatting about AI Chat. After dismissing doing an episode on AI Chat Bots and RPGs, a few articles they each read convinced each of them to discuss this subject on the mics for an episode. Saul talks about his foray into Chat GPT and his attempt have the AI make a Bladerunner adventure. It was a very interesting endeavor . Jolene read a few articles and saw a few Youtube videos though she is a bit hesitant to talk about AI as she doesn't want any reprecution from any AI when they take over. As Always Thank You all for listening.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Dirge, song Chatter, from the album What If? Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used by CC license 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss Elves in RPGs. From how they are portrayed in books, myth and popular culture. Some GMs ban players from playing Elves for various reasons. Playing Elves has been a popular race/culture to play since Original D&D was published in 1974. Saul and Jolene discuss where the idea of Elves comes from and how they became a mainstay of many fantasy roleplaying games. But why would playing an Elf be so difficult or why would certain GMs ban players some playing an Elf in their games. Saul thinks it has to do with the Tolkien idea of how Elves are, from their immortality, to their almost divine nature that they are so different from humans that it would be very difficult to play a Tolkienesque Elf. Thanks for Listening and Please Share our Podcast with your Gamer Friends and Family. Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Burning Brains the Band, song Immortal Warrior, off the album Amazon's on Fire. Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used with Creative Commons License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
At the end of 2022 AI art websites started to emerge. In RPGs where art is utilized from the making of RPGs and supplements in various forms to, GM using art to help describe their world, to players who usually like to have a picture of their favorite character art and RPGs is a long and close relationship. Saul and Jolene heard about this and at the time didn't think it was a subject to make an episode for our podcast. But A.I. art has grown in usage and it has been learning at an incredible pace. Saul even dabbled in using MidJourney to do some images for his Bladerunner game at a local game con. Saul noticed that quite a few small publishers were using AI art in their projects. Chaosium stated that they would not be using any AI art in any of their projects. As AI art gets better and easier to use how will impact RPGs and artists that work in the RPG industry.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Scott Albert Johnson, song Simply Human, off the album Going Somewhere. Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used using the Creative Commons license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss Class based RPGs Vs Classless RPGs. What are the advantages each has and how they work. Whether a RPG is classless or class based it affects gameplay both in the short term and the long term. Saul states which he prefers when GMing and which he likes when he plays. Jolene as always makes sure that Saul stays on topic. Thank you all for listening all we ask is that you share our podcast.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by MidMap, song Class Funk. Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used under the CC use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
We did this interview a while ago. There was some recording issues on our end and Saul had to do a lot of editing and post production in other to get the sound as best as possible. Julian Kay had a successful Kickstarter for Mutants in the Now which was an homage to Teenage Mutant Turtles. Saul happens to be a Teenage Mutants fan and actually collected the early comics of Eastman and Laird back in the late 80's and early 90's. Saul reached out to Julian for an interview and Julian agreed. At the time of the interview Mutants in Next had just finished and Saul was a backer of the project which expands Mutants in the Now. Below are the links to the Kickstarter page and the Bakerkit page as Mutants in the Next is now in preorder. Thank you all for listening. Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arbco/mutants-in-the-next-expanding-the-mutant-animal-ttrpg/descriptionhttps://mutants-in-the-next.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss different ways to create an adventure. Saul calls it "Big Picture" Vs "Detailed" games Each have their advantages. Big Picture for Saul means coming up with big idea for a game with less details. These RPG adventures tend to be open ended, player driven and can end up in situations that the GM never envisioned. Detailed games are those where the GM takes more notes, maps, encounters and sets plots for the players to follow. A bonus is no OGL discussion. Woo Hoo, Jolene was very happy. Thanks for listening, and please share out podcast with Friends and Family.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean Jones
Music by Everette B. Walters, song And the Story Goes On, off the album Always High Reaching. Availabe from Tribeofnoise.com Used by CC license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Hey there everyone, Jolene would just like to say to you all this is the last episode on the OGL Saga. So quite a few events happened since our previous episode about the OGL and this is episode is about the most of the important aspects of all the events. Big news dropped on Jan 27th from WOTC and it set the TTRPG community a buzz with reaction. So Saul and Jolene decided it was neccessary to close the look on the the ramifications of WoTC's actions and the OGL as it stand now. As Always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with those interested in TTRPGs.
Web Art by Jim Foster, Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Clarke, Song The End Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used by CC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
This this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about coming up with a new campaign. From the first thoughts to gathering the players together around the table to play. Saul explains for him the ideas for a campaign can come from books, movies, TV show or anything that spurs an idea to begin a RPG campaign. The campaigns can be for any genre you want to play in. Saul thinks the best way is to get an idea and go from there. What is important is the first spark of an idea that you want to see played out. This is usually a situation, a question of what if that the players will flesh out during the game. Jolene as usual does her best of keeping Saul on task and on track. Thank you all for listening, we ask that you share our podcast with anyone interested in RPGs Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones Music by DJ Mpazo, song The Begining. Available at Tribeofnoise.com used with the following CC license
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Hey There Listeners, Saul and Jolene were not going to enter the fray with the OGL "Contraversy" but news about the subject keep coming every day. From the leaked new OGL called 1.1, to the reaction by those from the gaming community we had friends and listeners asking our opinion. Though it seemed like a question of a legal matter, as it deals with contracts and we are not lawyers, it seemed out of our realm to dicuss that we really didn't want to do an episode on the subject. But so much has happened we had to devote an episode to the reaction from the gaming community to WOTC's new OGL and their response to the voices of the gaming community. There is a lot to unpack in this episode, we recorded on Sunday morning expecting to have even more news to come out as soon as we concluded recording. Saul and Jolene read both the OGL 1.1 and the statement posted on the D&D Beyond website and compared what each document stated. We have included the links to each document for you to read on your own and decide for yourself. As always we would like to thank all of you for listening.
Web art by Jim Foster Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones No music for this episode.
The leaked OGL,http://ogl.battlezoo.com/The update posted on D&D Beyond websitehttps://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-game-license-ogl
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Why do we play TTRPGs? The simple answer is to have fun. Other than the simple answer what other reasons do we play RPGs and what can we learn from playing RPGs. Jolene came up with this topic reading various sources and the discussion she had with Saul is the basis of this Episode. Saul and Jolene discuss various things that players can learn from RPGs and what players can gain. Thank you all for listening. Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Harry, Larry and George, song Chess Man Blues, from the album Aggie Road. Available from Tribeofnoise.com