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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Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
This week Saul and Jolene talk about one of Saul's favorite old rpgs called Dark Conspiracy. It is a game of "near future horror roleplaying game. Published in 1991 Dark Conspiracy called DC by fans first caught the eye of Saul way back in 1991 at a B. Dalton's Bookstore in the local mall. From the cover and the story line that intrigued Saul, he kept going back to that store and finally bought the book after three months of thinking about it.
Saul ran two campaigns of DC. One for the old friends which he started playing RPGs with in Salinas and the second with new friends he made in San Jose when Saul and Jolene decided to attend San Jose State University.
Saul usually doesn't like the horror genre but it was the ability to take out aliens, creatures, demons with high powered firearms that clicked with Saul. DC has been out of print for many years but a committed group of fans have kept DC from disappearing into obscurity. Many things have prevented from a new edition of DC to be published. It might be as Saul said, some sinister Dark Conspiracy might be preventing the truth from coming out.
As Always Thank You all for listening and all we ask is that you share our humble podcast in your social media to get our podcast to as many listeners as possible.
Here are some links for more information: http://www.darkconspiracytherpg.info/
Music by Lonnie Dilan, song Darkness Before Dawn.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about skill in rpg and whether they diminish RP. Saul uses the "Sense Motive" skill or similar one as an example of how a skill might kill roleplaying. In the example the GM playing an merchant NPC tells the player something. The player then rolls a Sense Motive skill, is successful and tells the GM that he knows if the merchant is lying. By passing any roleplaying.
Saul and Jolene discuss games that have skills and those that don't. New games and old all in trying to figure out if Skills in RPGs really kill roleplay possibilities.
As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast on your social media to spread word of our podcast.
Music by Cheri C. Russell, song You Played Yourself.
Available at Tribeofnoise.com
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
In this episode Saul and Jolene begin a discussion about gamer expectations from the player and GM point of view. The discussion is about how gamer's expectations about a game they are playing in might change and how these changes might impact the fun at your game table.
Saul and Jolene talk about their Shadowrun game they are currently playing and how certain game sessions can change even within the same game system. Jolene relates how she enjoyed a particularly heavy RP session of Shadowrun about getting information about their next run. But the next session, which was about executing their plan, she didn't have as much fun as the previous RP heavy session.
So listen as Saul and Jolene take a meandering stab at avoiding problem with differences in expectations between players and GMs.
As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends.
Music by Delta World Wide Group, song Expectation.
Available at Tribeofnoise.com
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss the question every gamer hears from their significant other, "Why Another Edition?" You already have that roleplaying game. Its crazy that you have multiple RPGs of the same genre but another edition of the same game? That's Crazy!!!
Now Saul and Jolene won't argue that it isn't crazy but there are reasons why a gamer would want yet "another edition" of a certain game. They discuss Dungeons and Dragons to illustrate changes that are made to a RPG game that would want someone to buy the latest edition. Important changes to game mechanics, art direction, diversity in subjects and other changes to the game.
Shadowrun is another game they use as an example of why people would want to get the latest edition. Shadowrun is not so much about rules changes, though their are a quite a few, for Saul the new edition was needed to incorporate changes in technology where real life had out paced what was imagined by the games creators in the 1980's.
As always we would like to thank all our listeners and all we ask is that you share our podcast on your social media with family and friends.
Music by Ed Napoli, song Another One.
Available at Tribeofnoise.com
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.