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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Saturday Jan 04, 2020
Saturday Jan 04, 2020
First of all Happy New Year to you all. Hope you all had a great holiday season. So in this episode Saul and Jolene talk about virtual table tops specifically Roll20.
Saul who has been on Roll20 since 2013 shares the trials and tribulations of online rpg gaming. From connection issues to last minute games and cancellations, they are all problems that can sideline a rpg game online.
But Saul and Jolene share their experiences online that really for them out weigh any "problems" that playing a RPG online brings.
We would like to thank all the listeners to our podcast. We really appreciate everyone of you that downloads and listens to our podcast. From across the U.S. to across the world we really do appreciate you all taking the time to listen to our humble podcast.
All we ask of you all is that you share our podcast with your family, friends and social media. We don't advertise so the only way we get more people to listen by your sharing. Thanks again, everyone of you, and Happy New Year!!
Music by Zilla God, song VR off the album Pipe Dreamz.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Saturday Dec 28, 2019
Saturday Dec 28, 2019
Once again Saul and Jolene tackle a subject that a listener had posted on their Facebook Page. That question was would Fantasy Structures be built differently than in our real world history. As usual Saul went a bit off the rails on this subject where Dwarf Commandos were brought up as were the lair of those "sneaky boogers" the Beholder.
As always Jolene tries to rein in Saul and have him focus on the topic of the week. Jolene found out after researching the subject online, that it was a subject that had been broached by a number of people online. According to Jolene, most felt that it would not affect the way structures, castles specifically would be much different.
We would like to wish everyone a very Happy and Safe New Years Celebration, however you celebrate. As always we wish to thank all of you for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends.
Music by djkolizey, song What your parallel worlds, off the album Kosmos.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
Sunday Dec 22, 2019
From a post on MeWe seeking advice GMing their first game, this episode was born. In this episode Saul and Jolene cover some ideas that might prove helpful for a person running their very first RPG.
Saul and Jolene prioritized the tips differently but pretty much agreed on what they thought were the best few tips to give to a new GM. Some of these ideas might even prove helpful for long time GMs.
As always thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with friends and family.
Music by GabrielS, song First Time.
Available from Tribeofmusic.com
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Saul and Jolene asked the Webosphere, if there were any topics they wanted covered by the podcast. One topic was posted on the Gaming Perspectives Facebook page was journals. Now Saul didn't have an exact idea what the poster, Michael, exactly meant by "journals" but that didn't stop Saul from answering the question anyway.
As always Jolene was had to corral Saul from meandering too far from the subject. Saul and Jolene discussed how journals or diaries could be used in roleplaying games. Players and GM's writing session notes, character journals/diaries and even campaign notes seemed like a good idea to Saul and Jolene. Saul and Jolene discuss how both GM and Players could use their journals for in game and out of game purposes.
As always, we would like to thank all of you that listen to our podcast and all we ask is that you share our podcast with friends and family.
Music by Kampmaniak, song Insurgent's Diary.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Saturday Dec 07, 2019
Saturday Dec 07, 2019
Almost every RPG gamer knows about Metagaming. In the current era, metagaming is considered the ban of any "true" roleplayer. With a little research and thinking about the subject Jolene found that not all metagaming is bad? What thought Saul, what are you doing challenging something that all gamers now hold has the "truth" that all metagaming is bad.
Jolene discusses how in some instances and situations, metagaming isn't terrible or horrible. Well I guess an old dog CAN learn new tricks and so in this episode Saul learns something new.
As always thank you all for listening and please share our podcast with your friends and family. That way we can get our podcast to as many listeners as possible.
Music by DRONK, the song La Meta
Available at Tribeofmusic.com
Saturday Nov 30, 2019
Saturday Nov 30, 2019
Saul and Jolene discuss Women at the Gaming Table. Here Saul relates how growing up there were no girls or women at his gaming table. Even when Saul went to his first gaming convention women were very few. It was not until the 1995 that he was in a gaming group that had not one but two women.
Jolene starting gaming because of her younger brother. But then they moved to a new town of Chico California and the guys that her brother started playing with were a bit "intimidated" by Jolene's presence. Still Jolene has been attending game conventions since 2000 and describes her experience going to local conventions.
Even with more women at conventions and playing games, too many times we read and hear stories about women having bad experiences at gaming tables. Saul and Jolene talk about why this might happen and how they feel things will change for women and all people who start playing rpg games.
Sorry no intro music in this episode.
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
In this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about a RPG that goes back to 1985, King Arthur Pendragon. Since it debut in 1985 with a box set it has seen a few editions, the latest being Pendragon 5.2. Saul and Jolene are interested in this game but each for different reasons. Saul owes liking and playing D&D back in 1978 to the King Arthur stories. From books he read to a Disney Cartoon movie called Sword in the Stone. Later movies like Excalibur, First Knight and others. Saul discusses how King Arthur Pendragon, KAP for short, is much different from the more well known Dungeons and Dragon.
Jolene comes from a more historical angle and why she likes that period of history and sees KAP as a way of playing in mythical England of ladies and knights. With Jolene's background in Ancient and Medieval history and her fondness of historical romance novels Jolene is fascinated by the Pendragon rpg.
As always thank you all for listening and please share our podcast with family and friends. It really helps get our podcast to as many people as possible. Since we do not advertise, word of mouth is the only way to reach more people. Thanks again.
Music by kinglizzard, song The King Lizzard Overture, album ALVIDA
Available at Tribeofnoise.com
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
Sunday Nov 17, 2019
A while back John Wick, no not the Keanu John Wick, the creator of 7th Seas RPG and others, stated in his blog that Dungeons and Dragons was not a Role playing game. Saul brought this up to Jolene and the following discussion was had.
What did John Wick mean that D&D wasn't and RPG? Millions of people have been playing D&D and they have been thinking, believing and knowing that they were playing an RPG. Saul and Jolene discuss this and figure out what motivations or reasons why anyone, especially John Wick would say such a ludicrous statement.
As always thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share with family and friends.
Music by Asylum, song Wicked Passion, album Left to Parasite.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Saturday Nov 09, 2019
Saturday Nov 09, 2019
In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the new RPG engine by Free League they are calling the Year Zero Engine. It is the system that was introduced in Mutant Year Zero RPG and was used in the subsequent other publications. This New Zero system was tweaked and used in Coriolis, Tales From the Loop and Forbidden Lands RPGs.
Free League decided to streamline the rules, clean them up and publish them as an Open Gaming License publication. Meaning that you can under certain circumstances use the system and publish your own content.
Saul and Jolene talk about the previous incarnations of the Year Zero system used previous games and how it has been changed from the system in Mutant Year Zero to the Alien RPG. They talk about how it has been tweaked and streamlined with each publication. Saul was particularly impressed with the ease of use and how easy it is to explain the rules to new players.
Saul has run a few games at gaming conventions and it has been the only set of rule system that he has felt comfortable enough to make characters at a convention, which went very well.
Saul and Jolene also discuss how they are involving the gaming community to fine tune the system by putting out the Year Zero document and asking the gaming community for any mistakes or changes they see or want.
As always thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends.
Music, In Zero, by The Brown Bunny off the album Instrumental Madness.
Available at Tribeofnoise.com
Saturday Nov 02, 2019
Saturday Nov 02, 2019
Saul and Jolene discuss the GMPC, the game master player character. Saul saw a poll on social media about how often should a GM use a GMPC. All the possible answers varied from always, sometimes, and use only infrequently. Saul was surprised to see of those that replied that a vast number of people said it was totally okay to do. They all had their "reasons" for using a GMPC. Jolene was a bit puzzled by the topic Saul presented so she used her research skills and found some pretty funny anecdotes on the subject.
Saul definitely has his opinions on the subject. Saul ticks off the reasons people use a GMPC and then has reasons why this might be a bad idea.
As always thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with family and friends.
Music by SCOUR , song Bright Idea Master, off the album EP
Available at tribeofnoise.com