Jolene was online when she came across a discussion about considerate players.  Jolene asked Saul his thoughts about this topic.  After a short discussion the decision was made to do an episode about what they were discussing.   

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Music by Blackburn, song nice, off the album Missed the Bus

Saul was thinking about his Monterey Dresden games he ran at home and at local conventions a few years ago.  Saul even bought the big Dresden Files rpg by Evil Hat but found the system more complicated than he had expected.  He had talked to Jolene about it in the past on how he wanted a lighter game to run his Monterey Dresden games.  

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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.

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Music by Ed Napoli, song First time, Every Time

     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.

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Music by Varjen, song The Big Advice, off the album Hardland

          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.  

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Music by Oliver Wolf, song The Beginning

     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".   

Music by Denni A, song Indy's Fantastic Dreamscape, off the album Indy's Album

     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.

Music by Frenz, song High-Five

      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.

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Music by Derek Joel, song Returning Innocence

    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.  

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Music by Tim and Mo, song Mysterious World, off the album Happy Accidents

     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.

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Music by Jim Gaven, song Be Good Together, off the album Road to Calvary