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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 124: Planning Your RPG Adventures

     How do you plan your adventures.  Saul and Jolene discuss this important part of any RPG session and that is how you plan or organize your RPG adventures, whether you play D&D, Conan, Star Wars or CoC.
     Saul, of course, talks about how he used to brainstorm then then commit to paper his initial ideas about an adventure.  Saul also discusses how that really didn't work for him or anybody else since he would come up with stories that he tried to forecast what the players would do.  As any GM out there that has GMed even a little bit would soon realize is that players don't do what you think they will.
    So Saul and Jolene discuss what they do now to plan there adventures.
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  Music by Know it Alls, song Pretty Plans.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 123: Conan 2d20 RPG

     In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of and what they liked and what they saw as problematic.  For the most part both Saul and Jolene enjoyed the game.  Saul Kickstarted the Core Book due to a recommendation by his older brother, who is a total Conan fan.  
     He was also the GM for the game that Saul has played in a few times and lately it was their Friday Knights Game, a group Jolene has joined.
     This Conan set of rules uses Modiphius' house system called the 2d2o System which is used in various games put out by Modiphius from Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, John Carter, Dishonored, Star Trek Adventures and others.
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     Music by Domiano Baldioni, song Celtic Warrior, off the album Lost Dinasty.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 122: Railroads and Player Agency

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about Railroads and Player Agency.  It would seem the two are diametrically opposed but Railroads don't have to be the GM's draconian story where the players are there just to enjoy the ride and roll some dice.
     One way for a Railroad type of game to lose sight of the tracks is to have player agency.  Where players actions and ideas impact the story.  It makes for a more difficult game for the GM to run but the payoff is a more fun for all players of the game.
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   Music by Railbird, song Born on the Railroad, album Railbird.
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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Episode 121: Player Character Backstories

        Saul and Jolene talk about PC Backstories.  From the pages long ones that creative and very imaginative players make to the two sentences that other players give their poor GMs, Saul and Jolene discuss what to do with what the players give their gm. 
      Saul and Jolene both agree that if a GM gets a good length backstory it gives great insight into what that particular player wants to see in your game.  Of course as a GM, one has to be careful what they read into what player's commit to paper or electronic file.
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   Music by  Marinos Arkadinos, song Shadows of the Past.
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Gaming Perspectives With Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode Interview with Christoffer Sevaldsen Author of the Black Void RPG

     Jolene and Saul were lucky enough to have back on the microphone, Christoffer Sevaldsen author of the Black Void RPG.  Christoffer has a new Kick Starter campaign to further support his "Esoteric Dark Fantasy" rpg called the Black Void.  The new project is "Black Void: Under Nebulous Skies- A Voidfarer's Travelogue, Campaign and Sourcebook".  Saul and Jolene really enjoyed talking to Christoffer after is first successful Kick Starter campaign to publish the Black Void, they were particularly glad to speak to him before his latest Kick Starter Campaign this time around.
     The interview covers a bit about the Black Void RPG Core book and the latest offerings from Christoffer and his team supporting this evocative dark fantasy game.  Though the core book is packed with setting information, fans of the game always want more, and Christoffer is really delivering with this "Tome" as he put it.  Christoffer explains what the book encompasses.  He also gave us tidbits of information about non Black Void projects he is thinking about in the future.
     The Black Void and supporting material can be found at:  https://www.blackvoidgames.com/
      The Kick Starter for Under Nebulous Skies starts next week so keep an eye out.  Also if you are an early adopter you will receive a PDF of a 130 page adventure PDF,  FREE right after the campaign ends called "Into the Oblivious Depths"
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  Music by Sonik Enyaw,  song The Void Beyond.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 120: Houserules in RPGs

       In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss Houserules in rpgs.  Saul uses his boyhood rules of Monopoly which were actually heavily houseruled.  It wasn't until he played much later as an adult that many of the rules as he knew them were not actually official rules of Monopoly.  Saul then moves the conversation to Original D&D and how immediately many people started houseruling this set of rules.
     Saul and Jolene discuss different types of houserules used in RPGs and if you do use alternate rules or special house rules, you should always tell your players about them.
 
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   Music by Joshack, song Funkyhouserule's- Why I Couldn't See Your Love(Right Before Your Eyes)
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 119: The Ideal GM

   The Ideal GM, what is it and why does it exist.  Saul and Jolene discuss the idea of having a player compare their GM from their past and comparing them to the current GM usually in a way that conveys that current GM does not measure up.  Usually this is a player that has been playing a good amount of years.
    On the other hand it could be a new player that has seen popular actual plays and wants or expects their games to be just like that!
    
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   Music by Soosu, song The Mountain Breeze of Nostalgia, off the album Green World.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 118: Roleplaying Dragons, Gods and AIs

     In this episode Saul and Jolene tackle the idea of playing a Dragon, God or AI.  Something that can be so alien to us that it really is incomprehensible to understand, as humans, their motivations.  So we humans give these beings human like traits.  In roleplaying games, playing some so alien is daunting.  Saul and Jolene discuss how they RP their NPC Dragons, Gods, AI and even Aliens, not Xenomorphs cause they just want to eat you.
      Saul discusses how he has played dragons in D&D and Shadowrun.   Saul and Jolene talk about sources that they use as inspiration for roleplaying this strange and wonderful beings, those sources being books, tv shows and movies.  One show both mention and like is Star Trek series.  One episode in particular for Saul is Devil in the Dark of the Original Star Trek.
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  Here is the article written by an AI: 
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
 
   Music by Darikus,  song The Rabbit and the Dragon
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 117: The Wayward Player

     The Wayward Player, is discussed by Saul and Jolene.  The single player that takes their character on their own side quest without discussing it with the other players/characters.  Should the GM be stuck with running two separate games or splitting time between one player and the rest of the group?  Saul and Jolene talk about what would make a player do this and how to handle this situation.
      Saul digresses quite a bit on this episode, and Jolene for once, maybe she was tired lets him ramble a bit too long on certain digressions.  But Saul finally circles back to the topic of the episode.
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  Music by Solxis, song Lone Wolf, off the album Pedal Steel Away.
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 116: The Ideal RPG Group Size

     The Ideal group size is something that has come up in Saul and Jolene's rpg games.  As both GM games, Saul a bit more than Jolene, they both tackle this question in their home games and their convention games.
     To them there are three factors that play into what is the ideal group size.  At one point Saul goes into a lengthy digression about classic Traveller, but Jolene brings him back to the subject of the podcast.
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    Music by Tobin James and Damaged Goods, song Join The Party, off the album       Rules of the Road.
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