GamingPerspectives

     In this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about making a RPG from a computer game.  This was from a question that Saul read online about a father that wanted to make a RPG for his kids that played Destiny 2.  Saul thought he recognized the game and even thought he had the older computer game but he was thinking of Mass Effect 2.  Still Jolene and Saul discussed the trials and tribulations of making your own RPG. 

    Music by Soul Understated, song Gonna Make It,  off the album Unreleased 

     Saul was looking at Reddit and found a post about how the person didn't like playing "Lighter" RPGs because they were more work for him in roleplaying than a crunchier systems like Pathfinder.  Others also agreed and added comments about why they didn't like RPGs.  

     Saul and Jolene have tried a few "Light RPGs".  Games like Kobolds Ate My Baby, Sleepaway Camp, The Quiet Year, Tales From the Loop and others.

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    Music by Frenz, song The Light

          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 today.  So why do they still want to play? Listen and find out.

    Music Bruce Zim, song Friends Forever

      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.  

    Music by Shirley Jones, song Questions,  off the album Black Cat Blues

          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 she liked to just three though she reluctantly did come up with a final 3.  

    Music by Sharon C, song Forever,  off the album Calling You

      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.  

        Web Art by Jim Foster

    Music by Brian Cho, song Prepare For Combat.

     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 Caller would talk to the GM. The Caller could even countermand what the player had told the Caller what they wanted to do.  Needless to say Saul never went back to the game club.  

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    Music by Tanay Jackson, song In the SpotLight,  off the album Tanay

        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.  

    Music by Julian Child's Band, song Time Machine,  off the album Opus

     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 following prices have a Tabletop events fees of a couple dollars.  A Weekend Pass is 40 bucks for the whole Friday to Monday convention.  GMs only have to run a four hour game and they get a GM pass for 16 dollars and those in the Military and Veterans get for basically free plus the service feel for Tabletop Events website.

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     Web Art by Jim Foster

          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 PCs only if they questions those NPCs. 

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    Music by Solxis, song Confused Life,  off the album Dance, Dance, Dance.