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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode Forty-Nine: Off Game Table Discussions

    Saul and Jolene talk about Off Game Table Discussions.  What happens when you don't have enough time at the game table to Roleplay as much as you wanted during a game session?  The reasons why you don't have enough time is varied but sometimes as adults we only have a few precious hours to play.  And at times to be able to move the story forward you can't RP as much as you like.  Or there are elements about your character that you don't want to hog up all the time talking about your character motivations, insecurities or passions.  The answer is to take those kind of discussions off the "Game Table" and discuss it in chat, email or over a voice chat application or program such as Discord.
     Saul and Jolene talk about how they have used this to enrich their roleplaying games without taking valuable face to face or even online gaming sessions.  This can be used by both GMs and players to give or get more detail about the world, characters or events in the game.   
   As always thanks for listening and please share with your friends and family.
 
    Music by Damiano Baldoni, song Celtic Warrior off the album Lost Destiny.
  Available from FreeMusicArchive.com
 
 

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode Mike Eckert 14 Day til Kublacon

     Mike Eckert, the Executive Producer, of Kublacon is back with our third interview 14 Days before Kublacon.  Saul and Jolene get a bit of his time to talk about Kublacon which is only 14 days away.  Mike is super busy getting ready to put on one of the biggest gaming conventions on the West Coast and it right here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  We have been attending Kublacon from the very beginning and it was Augustin's ,Saul and Jolene's son, first game convention at the tender age of 6 months.  Augustin does not know a Memorial Day Weekend without Kubla, as we lovingly call it.  
     So we wrangled some free minutes of Mike's time away from Kubla work and he chatted with us about his escapades in the last year attending numerous gaming conventions across the U.S.  and using that knowledge to make changes to certain elements of how Kublacon does certain things.  As always with a larger gaming con in a high populated area, rooms, parking and overall Kubla experience at the fore front of Mike's mind.  Using what he learned from numerous other cons and feedback of 18 years of previous Kublacons convinced Mike and his Kublacon Staff to make some small changes.  As with all our interview episodes this is minimally edited and a bit longer than our usual episodes but we do enjoy doing them. 
      As always thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you please share our podcast with your family and friends.
    For more info on Kublacon go to   https://www.kublacon.com/
    You can still buy a badge and pre-register for games before you get to the con.  Pre-game registration closes on May 15th!
 
   
     

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene The Becky T. Interview

      Kublacon is only a couple weeks away and we have another interview with a Kublacon staff member.  This time Becky Thomas the Coordinator of Kublacon Youth Program joins us on the microphone.   Me and Jolene have known Becky since Augustin was a baby going into Kublacon's then Kids Room, where Becky was in charge.  She ran a very busy and growing population of kid gamers at Kublacon.  Now the Kid's Room is split into two separate rooms one for younger children and teens.  It has been amazing to see the program that Becky runs grow from a good sized room of 40-50 kids to hundreds.   Saul and Jolene find out what an awesome gamer, teacher, storyteller and true pillar of the gamer community Becky has been for over 30 years.  
    As always thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with friends and family.
     Becky Thomas runs the Roleplay Workshop for more info go to  https://roleplayworkshop.com/
    On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RoleplayWorkshop/
     On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/roleplayworkshop/
   Becky is also running her Abantey Game at Kublacon in the Teen room on Friday from 6pm to Midnight. Sign up at the Teen Room.
 
 
 

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 48: All Things Dice

     Ever gamer has a special relationship with dice.  And table top gamers are no different or possibly more fervent with their dice.  Usually they can never have enough or couple always use another set.  Saul and Jolene talk about their dice.  Are all superstitious?  Probably.  They go on to discuss dice trays and dice towers, and it seems that most gamers have strong opinions as to whether they like these dice accessories.  Saul and Jolene give some reasons why dice trays and towers might be good to have at your table. 
    As Always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with family and friends.
 
      

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode: The Vern R. Interview

     Continuing our Pre-Kublacon interviews, we got Vern R. to join us this time.  Vern is the RPG Coordinator for Kublacon and Pacificon.   He is a LONG time gamer and has played with many excellent gamers from the SF Bay Area.  A local kid Vern grew up in the heart of what would become Silicon Valley.  His gamer story is filled with long treks to hobby game stores and was even impacted by the Satanic Panic of the late 80's and 90's .  He is a tireless worker at Kublacon, as I see him working and playing at Kublacon at all hours.  Me and Jolene are grateful for taking time to join us and tell us his story.  
       As all our interviews this is unedited.
   As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends.

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode: DDC Special Announcement by Mark S.

            This is a bonus special announcement episode by Mark S. of DunDraCon.    In Feb. 14-17th, 2020 DDC will be at the San Ramon Marriot where it has been for the last 28 years.  But in 2021 DunDraCon is moving to the Santa Clara Marriot in Santa Clara.  We wanted to put this news out as quickly as possible so we give you the interview announcement without editing.  Mark shares with us the big news and other changes that he is planning on making starting in 2020 at DDC and then the "Big Change" in 2021 to Santa Clara.  We would like to thank Mark for sharing breaking information.
    As Always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share this podcast with friends and family.
 
 

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode 47: John Carter of Mars RPG

     In this episode we discuss our play test of John Carter of Mars rpg.  It is published by Modiphius and uses the 2D20 system.  This is a "streamlined" version of the 2D20 system used in Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, Conan RPG, Star Trek Adventures and the Infinity RPG.  Saul and Jolene played this with their friend Steve and our collective kids.  Saul gave a quick introduction to the setting, rules and we were off to a fantastic adventure on Barsoom.  Thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your friends and family.
    Full disclosure we received a PDF of the rules from Modiphius.
 
     Music is back. 
   Music by Jahzzar, song Seas of Mars off the album  Galaxy.   

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Episode Forty Six: Metagaming in RPGs

     This week Saul and Jolene talk about the four letter word in some RPG circles, Metagaming.  In this episode both Saul and Jolene give their definition of what metagaming is.   Is metagaming terrible?  It is just bad?  Or is it a legitimate way of playing rpgs?  Saul and Jolene tackle this topic though it is a very subjective one.  Give it a listen and see what is too much metagaming for Saul and what he tries to do to mitigate what he thinks is too much metagaming at his game table.
     As always thanks for listening.  Always glad to see new states and countries that download our podcast.  Canada!! England and Norway are some top downloads outside the U.S. and the latest one is Israel and a country by the initials of CW.  We had to look up what country this was and it is known as Curaçao. Its a tiny island north of South America.  Thanks to all of you  for listening we really appreciate it.  All we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends to get our podcast to as many ears as possible. 
    Sorry no intro music this week as we could not get to download anything from the usual site we usually use for getting our intro music.   If any listener wants to send us some of their music.  We will gladly use and and credit you.  Just email us at gamingperspective.com@gmail.com  Thanks again for listening.

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode: The Alicia Hansen Interview

     In this Episode we continue the Pre-Kublacon interviews, this one is with Alicia H.   She is a long time gamer, gaming from back when she was a kid and starting RPGs when she was in Jr. High School.  Saul saw her for many years but only thought that she played boardgames since that is all that he saw her play.  But it turns out she is a RPG gamer from a young age.  So in this episode Saul finds out that Alicia isn't a Latina, plays rpgs and is running her first rpg game at a game con at Kublacon.  She is using her years of experience at working at a very popular haunted house that ran for many years here in the Bay Area.  So her first game will be a Haunted House inspired CoC game.  So listen and learn a bit about Alicia, like how to pronounce her name and many more interesting things about this Bay Area gamer and now GM at Kublacon.
     The recording got all messed up with the timing.  We did the best we could to sync up the two different tracks and for the most part we got it to work. except for a bit toward the end where we just could not figure out the two audio tracks.  It is still a great episode and we are very grateful for Alicia H. for joining us on the microphone.  
      As always we thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your friends and family.
   

Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene Bonus Episode Wendy-Ann and John Interview

     Another episode in our Pre-Kublacon interview series we talk to Wendy-Ann and John who are in charge of Pathfinder Society for the Bay Area.  Wendy-Ann and John do an amazing job being representatives for Paizo organized play.  They are the Venture Captains for the South Bay.  Wendy-Ann and John are the people in charge of Organized play at Kublacon.  They do an amazing job by running over a hundred tables of Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society organized play at Kublacon.   In our interview they talk about their beginning in roleplaying way back in 1975!! How they came to the U.S. and lived on the East Coast moved West to make their home here in the Bay Area and go to their first convention in 2011?? Yes.. 2011!
     How they went from playing Pathfinder Society to running three of ten the biggest Pathfinder Society events at conventions.  It is a great story.  I learned quite a bit about these two delightful people who do a tremendous amount of work and are true goodwill ambassadors of our great hobby.  I would like to thank them for talking to us and giving us insight to their lives and the running of Pathfinder Society events. 
     So if your at Kublacon and the shuffler has not been kind to you.  Check out the Pathfinder Society area where Wendy-Ann and John will do their best to get you playing Pathfinder and having fun!!  I truly thank John and Wendy-Ann for doing the interview. 
     We will be doing two episodes Live From Kublacon Recording on Saturday and Sunday. We will have extra microphones so stop by and say hi and tell us how your Kublacon is going.
     As always thanks for listening and all we ask is for you to share our podcast with your family and friends.