Saul and Jolene usually do a New Year episode where they pick the RPGs that they are most looking forward to or ones they find interesting.  This episode is a top ten of upcoming TTRPGs that Saul thought were pretty interesting.  

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This topic comes from a Reddit post which asked about what rules should a GM need to know when running a game.  And which rules can they leave to look up later at the game table.

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 Saul and Jolene were invited to a weekend RPG event hosted by Bay, a very good friend of theirs.   One game that both Saul and Jolene were eager to play was Brindlewood Bay.  Saul was interested because of the way the “mystery” was “solved” and the use of PBTA rules.  Jolene is a fan of mystery both in book and TV format.  Jolene watches a lot of mystery shows from old to new, American TV to British style mysteries. 

      Another good reason both Jolene and Saul wanted to play was that Bay is an excellent GM and has not disappointed either Jolene or Saul in a game that he has run.  So Saul was hesitant about the rpg ruleset “working’, Jolene was super eager to play in a real mystery RPG adventure.

     Saul and Jolene have mentioned Brindlewood Bay on previous episodes but it was from an opinion of just reading the rules and reading other peoples opinion of it. Now that they have both played the game, they decided it would be a good thing to review the game on an episode.

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When you are playing in a RPG, whether it is online or an in person game,  keeping the player engaged in the game can be 

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      Reading Reddit posts Saul cam across a post about a problem that they had when they joined a new group with an on going campaign.   The Poster was upset at a number of things that happened when he first started playing.  They sought help with dealing with their problems since joining.  Saul thought about things that could minimize problems like this Original Poster had.   He talked to Jolene that had multiple questions about the situation.

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     Saul was reading "RPG Reddit" posts and came across a person who described themselves as a 5th edition D&D player.  In this post they wanted to know about games that were more "lethal" than D&D.  They mentioned that D&D was too easy to survive.

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     In this Episode Saul was reading a blog where they discussed the Three Different Pillars of D&D.  Saul went on to read other sources from other bloggers to Reddit posts about this idea of what makes a good D&D Game.

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Jolene was looking at TTRPG topics and came across a Reddit Post where a user was asking why people consider playing TTRPGs a "niche" hobby.  The original poster was quite surprised that people thought that TTRPGs are not that popular. There were quite a few replies to that post and most were proposing that TTRPGs are not that big of a deal in the hobby sphere. 

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      Saul and Jolene went to a game convention over Labor Day weekend.  Their first game there was a RPG called Troika.  Saul had seen this rpg mentioned quite a bit in various posts.  From "Best Ever Indie Game", to "Most Underrated RPG" and many other lists.   Even though Saul had bought the PDF of Troika he had not yet looked at the rules, but had been very interested in what the buzz was about this RPG.  

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      Saul and Jolene went to a couple conventions in late August and Early September.  In late August they went to Galaxycon in San Jose.  It takes place in downtown San Jose at the McEnery Center.  It is the largest convention center in the South Bay.  Saul was really impressed with all the guest speaker, panels, activities that were available at Galaxycon.  This was Jolenes and Sauls first time attending a Galaxycon.  Both came away impressed with the con and it was a very fun experience for the both of them.

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