GamingPerspectives

Oct 23 2024 350 ep. 38 mins 5

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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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Bonus Episode: Why We Still Play Round Table, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Oct 23 2024 66 mins

Saul and Jolene decided to ask a question of their gaming friends, Felipe, Cipriano and Michael, "Why do you still game after playing for so long." Saul has been gaming with Felipe, his brother, since 1978, with Cipriano right after that and Michael since Junior High. Though some of them had some short stints of not playing here or there, Saul and his friends are still playing RPGs

Episode 302: Pre-Session Question, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Oct 21 2024 35 mins

This episode comes from Jolene surfing the internets and finding a post on Reddit. She mentioned it to Saul and they talked about this idea. Saul remembered that at some Convention Games a few GM's did this to get the players ready to enter the world of the game, break the ice between players and do some information dissemination. Thank you all for Listening Web Art by Jim Foster E

Episode 301: Top 3 Forever RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Oct 09 2024 41 mins

A question was floating around in social media and on Reddit, that if you only had three RPGs to play for the rest of your life which ones would they be. Saul was intrigued of whittling down all his favorite RPGs down to three that he would play forever if he had only three to play. Saul and Jolene discussed it a bit and though Jolene didn't like the idea of paring down the RPGs sh

Episode 300: Favorite Combat Mechanics, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Oct 01 2024 33 mins

Since Jolene and Saul have been playing various RPGs they have been discussing what they liked and did not like about the RPGs. One thing they zeroed in on was combat in the different RPGs. It also made Saul think about some game mechanics he had seen from some pretty old games like Space Opera, TOP Secret SI and many others. Saul and Jolene discussed how each game dealt with Comba

Episode 299: Stealing the Spotlight, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Sep 22 2024 39 mins

There have been times that a certain player at your table took charge of the table or maybe was the leader at the table. Heck back in the ole Days, there was a player who was, "the Caller". It was their job to talk to the GM and tell the GM what the players were doing. It was a way to speed up game play. Saul once played in a game where they took this idea to heart and only The Cal

Episode 298: Time Travel RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Sep 12 2024 36 mins

Saul and Jolene recieved an email from a listener Morgan who had some suggestion for episode topics. Thanks Morgan! One of the topics was Time Travel RPGs. Saul and Jolene thought it was a good topic and discussed several TV shows that had time travel episodes or where about time travel. They came up with way too many shows to discuss, so Saul picked his top 4 shows. Then the discu

Bonus Episode: Interview with David G from Kublacon, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Sep 10 2024 80 mins

In this episode Saul and Jolene interview David Gabriel of Producer of Kublacon Conventions. Kublacon is the SF Bay Area Largest gaming convention that takes place over Memorial Weekend. But this year they are putting on Kublacon Fall Veteran's Weekend. It will be the first year this event is happening. So if you want to ease your way into a Kublacon, this is the way to do it. The

Episode 297: Confused Players, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Sep 04 2024 41 mins

Saul and Jolene were discussing mystery shows and came across a reddit post. The post was from a GM complaining about how his players are not getting all his clues that would point the PCs toward the Big Bad Guy. The GM was lamenting how much work he had been doing on the campaign. The GM had made maps, developed numerous NPCs, many of which had informaton that they could give the

Episode 296: Generational RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Aug 30 2024 39 mins

Saul and Jolene were talking about long campaigns. The discussion lead to games were character played gernerations of a character. I was thinking how many generations one could play and what RPGs make it part of their system or setting. The first game that came to mind was Pendragon. A friend of mine ran the Great Pendragon Campaign for some fellow gamers. That GM runs games where

Interview of Dave and Matt of the Effekt Podcast, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene

Aug 26 2024 75 mins

Bonus Episode, an interview of Dave and Matthew from the Effekt of podcast. Saul and Jolene interview the very likeable chaps from the UK. Not only do they have a very successful podcast called the Effekt podcast which mainly deals with Swedish RPGs but they discuss all kinds of RPG topics. They also have been working on a gritty, Western RPG called Tales of the Old West using a ve