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 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
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
Hobby Game Stores have evolved from the small mom and pop store of the 1970's and 80's. Saul and Jolene discuss how they have had to evolve from those small hobby shop game stores that have mainly gone the way of the dinosaurs. In today's small profit margins and competition from online sales they can't, like other retail establishments, do business the same old way.
Saul relates the two old style hobby game stores from when he was a kid. Neither one of those two stores remain, but instead we have bigger and more inviting game store that have to be that way to remain in business.
Saul and Jolene discuss the changes that are made by successful game stores, the three that they patronize follow the model of being a center for the gaming community. From having nice clean, well lit places to play to some offering cafe and bars in their establishments. A long way from the old hobby store that had stacks of Avalon wargames and badly organized rpg books thrown haphazardly on a few shelves.
Saul and Jolene talk about several game stores they like and Saul found one that is seemingly not shedding the non engaging store owner more interesting in talking with his friends than possible customers.
As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends.
Music composed by KickSta, song Drive To You.
Available at Tribeofnoise.com
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
After the interview with Mark Schynert where he mentioned Arduin Grimoire, Saul got many questions on social media about Mark Schynert's involvement with Arduin Grimoire and its creator David Hargrave. Saul and Jolene decided to invite him back to the microphone to talk exclusively about Arduin and creator Dave Hargrave. David passed away in 1988 while he was working on his beloved Arduin Grimoire RPG game. Those that knew and played with David decided to publish as a tribute of sorts.
Mark volunteered to edit the mass amount of material that David had written. This was no easy endeavor as David wrote more than could be published in two volumes. It is an amazing commitment to an friend to do the work that needed to be done to get the last incarnation of Dave's Arduin rpg game published. In 1992 the Opus for Dave Hargrave's Arduin was published.
Thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with family and friends.
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the upcoming Alien RPG by Free League, the creators of Mutant Year Zero, Tales From the Loop and others. Saul got the Cinematic Starter Kit which is a 173 page PDF that contains all the rules to run an Alien one-shot. From the rules, adventure and pregen characters this PDF contains everything to run a 4-5 hour session.
Saul really liked the game, from the simple system, the "Stress" and "Panic" mechanic and the adventure. Even the character sheet got high marks from Saul. Jolene really liked the game, played in one session and saw another session which was run at a local game con.
At both session the game was well received and everyone really thought the system and the setting really worked. If you pre-ordered the book you should get it in late November in Europe or early December in the U.S. Shortly there after you should see it in game stores.
If you plan on playing in the adventure in the Cinematic Starter Kit. There are SPOILERS of a sort, but nothing too specific and it is called "Alien" rpg.
As Always Thanks for Listening and all we ask is that you Share our Podcast with Family and Friends.
Music by Alexander Ahura, song Alien Stars, off the album The Planet Zombotron.
Available from Tribeofnoise.com
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
In this episode we talk with Stephen Price again as our first recording was half eaten by the podcast gods. In this episode we talk about the new game con called Rising Phoenix Game Con in Milford Massachusetts coming in April 17-19 2020. From the beginnings the group putting this game convention wanted it to be a bit different. They want their attendees to be immersed in the gaming world. Coming from LARP roots these game con creators are working to make it seem like your going to a Renaissance Faire. They are working to offer a wide variety of Roleplaying Games to their attendees along with boardgames and even miniature games.
Stephen Price is part of the committee that is putting on Rising Phoenix Game Con. He chats with us about the vision of their group. We also discuss what they are looking for in GMs for their con and the type of Con experience they are trying to give their attendees.
Some ideas that tell us this group is really thinking they have two separate room blocks. One block for the die hard gamers that want that max experience with lots of games and little sleep. And a quiet block of rooms for those that actually want to sleep, like more than a few hours or have a small children that really need a quiet setting.
As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with family and friends.
You can go to the Rising Phoenix Web page here https://risingphoenixgamecon.com/
Stephen's Gaslands Esty page can be found here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SDPCreate
Music by Mark Subbotin, song Phoenix off the album Wandering Soul.
Available at https://www.tribeofnoise.com/
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Saul and Jolene talk about miniatures in gaming from RPGs to Wargames to Boardgames. Miniatures are one of the first accessories for games. They not only make the games look cool but they are very useful in all aspects of hobby gaming. Saul and Jolene talk about how useful miniatures can be and some problems with miniatures.
As always thanks for listening and please share our podcast with family and friends.
Our son Augustin's big Pathfinder Con game used Reaper Bones 1 miniatures.
To design your own figure go to https://www.heroforge.com/
A good beginner how to paint miniatures video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-BlVYFxfRA
There are many other videos available.
Music by Jennings, song Figure Me Out, album Story Book EP
available at https://www.tribeofnoise.com/member.php
Friday Oct 11, 2019
Friday Oct 11, 2019
In this episode Saul and Jolene talk to Jayson and Ron Smith the creators of Wizardz Bluff. Saul and Jolene met Jayson and Ron at Kublacon this past year as they were demoing their game Wizardz Bluff which will be going live on Kickstarter on October 15th. We decided to chat with them how they started gaming and how that went from players to game creators. These two brothers have a love of gaming that really shows in how they talk about games in their lives.
As usual thank you all for listening and please share our podcast with family and friends.
You can check out Jayson and Ron's game before their Kickstarter goes live at
https://wizardzbluff.com/
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
Saturday Oct 05, 2019
In this week's episode is about Monte Cook's free PDF called "Consent In Gaming." Saul and Jolene talk about this pdf that is only 13 pages but is a very important addition to the gaming hobby.
Saul talks about how his perspective has changed over the years and how he may not have needed or felt he needed this years ago but is very especially pertinent in this new era of rpgs and the new players it is attracting.
As always thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with family and friends.
You can get the pdf "Consent in Gaming" here: https://www.montecookgames.com/store/product/consent-in-gaming/
Music by Dan T Harp, song Understanding Bound off the album Face Down in a Pool of Dreams.
Available at https://www.tribeofnoise.com/
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
Saturday Sep 28, 2019
In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about Good Games that had problems. Yes even games that went well can have problems. The main point of this discussion is that we can learn from the problems we have in our games.
Jolene remembers her son's Chess teacher sharing that there are only Winners and Learners. Losing was not a word he used because he said if you learn you don't lose. Saul agrees with the idea that as GMs you can learn from your good games but you can really learn from your problems in your RPG games.
As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with Family and Friends.
Music by Ron Gelinas, Song Learning to Learn
Available at https://www.tribeofnoise.com/