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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Saul was on Reddit and came across a post where a person was asking about what game would be a good game for a 1st time GM. That poster listed quite a few games. Some of the games were not what Saul considered easy to run for a first time GM. He talked to Jolene about it and though she did not agree with some of Saul's choices, that discussion lead to the current episode. Thank you all for…
Saul was looking at Reddit posts and came across a question. What advice would you give an experienced player. Saul thought about this question and asked himself what advice would he give to himself or any of the players in his RPG groups? He also thought that most advice is geared toward new players but thought there was advice that even experienced TTRPG players could use. Saul mentioned this to…
Saul was thinking about the different ways characters for TTRPGs are made. At first was the classic D&D which he 1st played in 1978 with his brother and two friends. The Class and Level system that all D&D games Saul played used. Since then D&D was played at various times with various intensity. Then Saul was thinking of Dark Conspiracy which didn't have the classic Class and Level system and had…
Jolene asked Saul if he bought Indepent publishers TTRPGs. Saul looked at his book shelves and thought that most of his RPGs he had bought were published by "Indy Publishers". Jolene asked him why he bought Indy published RPGs. Saul pontificated why he thought he bought Indy published titles as often as he did. From supporting the little guy, to the varied systems Indy publishers put out, to…
Jolene was looking online and came across a post about the top five ttrpgs. This post garnered a not of response and she asked Saul about this topic. Saul thought it would a be a great topic to discuss and record an episode about it. Saul as usual put his own spin on the question of the biggest five TTRPGs. Saul didn't disclose his list until the recording of the episode to get her unfiltered…
Saul and Jolene had a question from a listener about how to make an player that had played long ago and was returning to playing TTRPGs. Saul and Jolene talked about this idea. Saul had read about and heard about players for whatever reasons had stopped playing TTRPGs and now years later had returned to players. After discussing what things could be done to make returning players more at ease in…
Jolene was thinking about playing the various RPGs that she had played recently from Saul's Western Mystery adventure called Shadows Over the Quicienera, to Brindlewood Bay game, and Tales From the Loop Adventures. She asked Saul how do you make a good mystery adventure/game. Saul and Jolene watched numerous videos on the subject and then compared notes. After that discussion Saul and Jolene…
Jolene was thinking about Actual Plays especially after we saw Laura and Travis from Critical Role at Galaxy Con in San Jose. This happened as she was on Reddit and came across a discussion about how actual plays like Critical Role and others were detrimental to the TTRPG Hobby. She talked to Saul and about it, where he understood where that sentiment came from, to which Jolene totally disagreed.…
Jolene was looking online at how GM's run games. She came across the topic of the GMs asking questions to their players. Jolene saw a lot of threads and forums discussing this topic. Jolene asked saw about this topic and they both had a lengthy discussion about this topic. Saul said he usually asks questions to keep the players "in the game" and keeping the players attention on the game. After the…
Somehow Saul missed the 20th Anniversary of the Leroy Jenkins but it came up during the last gaming session both Saul and Jolene were playing in. So at one point there is a big battle at a beach where Jolene's character went charging into before any fellow players could react. Post the game session another player called what Jolene did a Leroy Jenkins which made everyone laugh and Jolene stating…
