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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Thursday Apr 06, 2023
Thursday Apr 06, 2023
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss using your good skills while running RPGs. All GMs have skills and talents. Saul and Jolene agree that when GMs do this they make better games for their players. Along with strengths, GMs have weaknesses, we all do. Saul and Jolene also believe that we as GMs learn and progress with every game we play and run. As we realize these weaknesses we can then counter them by working on getting better on those items we as GMs stumble with. Thanks for listening.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Thursday Mar 30, 2023
Dwarves in RPGs, Saul and Jolene discussed Elves in a previous episode and they could not ignore the other popular RPG race, Dwarves. Saul again harkens to Tolkien origins but doesn't believe that Tolkien was as much a fan of his Dwarves than his Elves. Jolene found quite a bit of articles and posts about how people liked or disliked playing Dwarves in RPGs. Though disliked less than Elves there seemed to be quite a bit of 'love/hate' dichotomy in players preferences. When the subject of Dwarves in Shadowrun comes up, the discussion ventures into a discussion of race and racism as it is front and center in the Shadowrun universe. Saul goes a bit off topic at this point but decided it might need an episode devoted to that subject. All in all Dwarves are present in many RPGs both fantasy and Sci Fi. Jolene left with the desire to play a Dwarf in the next fantasy RPG she plays. Saul who has never played a Dwarf in his 42 years of playing RPGs says it is probably because it hits too close to home. As Always, Thank you all for listening!
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Mechanized Dwarves, song Return From Exile Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used with CC license 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
After reading about a shortage of DMs in New York article and on different social media Saul and Jolene looked into this idea. First of all is there a DM shortage? The article was in Hellgate an online local "newspaper". In it the author states that there is a large calling for DM by a large number of new players that want to play Dungeons and Dragons. Saul thinks that this might be a D&D 5th edition and specifically in New York City problem,, due to a variety of factors. Jolene and Saul discuss the merits of the article and how it might be a problem in other large metropolitan areas.
As Always Thanks for listening.
Here is the original Hellgate article https://hellgatenyc.com/no-on-wants-to-dungeon-master-any-more Web art by Jim Foster Episode art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Silent K, song No Shortage. Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used with CC license 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Saul and Jolene are back to chatting about AI Chat. After dismissing doing an episode on AI Chat Bots and RPGs, a few articles they each read convinced each of them to discuss this subject on the mics for an episode. Saul talks about his foray into Chat GPT and his attempt have the AI make a Bladerunner adventure. It was a very interesting endeavor . Jolene read a few articles and saw a few Youtube videos though she is a bit hesitant to talk about AI as she doesn't want any reprecution from any AI when they take over. As Always Thank You all for listening.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Dirge, song Chatter, from the album What If? Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used by CC license 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss Elves in RPGs. From how they are portrayed in books, myth and popular culture. Some GMs ban players from playing Elves for various reasons. Playing Elves has been a popular race/culture to play since Original D&D was published in 1974. Saul and Jolene discuss where the idea of Elves comes from and how they became a mainstay of many fantasy roleplaying games. But why would playing an Elf be so difficult or why would certain GMs ban players some playing an Elf in their games. Saul thinks it has to do with the Tolkien idea of how Elves are, from their immortality, to their almost divine nature that they are so different from humans that it would be very difficult to play a Tolkienesque Elf. Thanks for Listening and Please Share our Podcast with your Gamer Friends and Family. Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Burning Brains the Band, song Immortal Warrior, off the album Amazon's on Fire. Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used with Creative Commons License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
At the end of 2022 AI art websites started to emerge. In RPGs where art is utilized from the making of RPGs and supplements in various forms to, GM using art to help describe their world, to players who usually like to have a picture of their favorite character art and RPGs is a long and close relationship. Saul and Jolene heard about this and at the time didn't think it was a subject to make an episode for our podcast. But A.I. art has grown in usage and it has been learning at an incredible pace. Saul even dabbled in using MidJourney to do some images for his Bladerunner game at a local game con. Saul noticed that quite a few small publishers were using AI art in their projects. Chaosium stated that they would not be using any AI art in any of their projects. As AI art gets better and easier to use how will impact RPGs and artists that work in the RPG industry.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Scott Albert Johnson, song Simply Human, off the album Going Somewhere. Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used using the Creative Commons license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss Class based RPGs Vs Classless RPGs. What are the advantages each has and how they work. Whether a RPG is classless or class based it affects gameplay both in the short term and the long term. Saul states which he prefers when GMing and which he likes when he plays. Jolene as always makes sure that Saul stays on topic. Thank you all for listening all we ask is that you share our podcast.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by MidMap, song Class Funk. Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used under the CC use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
We did this interview a while ago. There was some recording issues on our end and Saul had to do a lot of editing and post production in other to get the sound as best as possible. Julian Kay had a successful Kickstarter for Mutants in the Now which was an homage to Teenage Mutant Turtles. Saul happens to be a Teenage Mutants fan and actually collected the early comics of Eastman and Laird back in the late 80's and early 90's. Saul reached out to Julian for an interview and Julian agreed. At the time of the interview Mutants in Next had just finished and Saul was a backer of the project which expands Mutants in the Now. Below are the links to the Kickstarter page and the Bakerkit page as Mutants in the Next is now in preorder. Thank you all for listening. Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arbco/mutants-in-the-next-expanding-the-mutant-animal-ttrpg/descriptionhttps://mutants-in-the-next.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss different ways to create an adventure. Saul calls it "Big Picture" Vs "Detailed" games Each have their advantages. Big Picture for Saul means coming up with big idea for a game with less details. These RPG adventures tend to be open ended, player driven and can end up in situations that the GM never envisioned. Detailed games are those where the GM takes more notes, maps, encounters and sets plots for the players to follow. A bonus is no OGL discussion. Woo Hoo, Jolene was very happy. Thanks for listening, and please share out podcast with Friends and Family.
Web Art by Jim Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean Jones
Music by Everette B. Walters, song And the Story Goes On, off the album Always High Reaching. Availabe from Tribeofnoise.com Used by CC license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Hey there everyone, Jolene would just like to say to you all this is the last episode on the OGL Saga. So quite a few events happened since our previous episode about the OGL and this is episode is about the most of the important aspects of all the events. Big news dropped on Jan 27th from WOTC and it set the TTRPG community a buzz with reaction. So Saul and Jolene decided it was neccessary to close the look on the the ramifications of WoTC's actions and the OGL as it stand now. As Always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with those interested in TTRPGs.
Web Art by Jim Foster, Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones
Music by Clarke, Song The End Available from Tribeofnoise.com Used by CC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode