GamingPerspectives

     In this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about one of the oldest RPG's Traveller.  Traveller is a science fiction rpg that continues to be published to this day.  First published in 1977 Traveller consisted of a small format box set, similar to the box set of Original D&D.  The box set contained 3 little black books which split the rules into Book 1 Characters and Combat, Book 2 Starships, Book 3 Worlds and Adventures.  Saul talks why he didn't like Traveller, but now feels he may have been overly critical of the game. 

    Yea!! We have made it to 52 regular episodes making this our one year mark of Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene.  Thank you all for listening and all we ask is that you share our podcast with your family and friends. 

    Thanks for all of you that take the time to download and listen to our podcast.

     Well, we are almost at Episode 52, which makes it a year of our podcasts.  We missed a week due to going to Kublacon over Memorial Day weekend. But we did publish two bonus episodes that we recorded at Kublacon on Friday and Saturday of the con.  We had a great time and were very busy the whole weekend.

      So in this episode Saul and Jolene talk about Rules As Written(RAW) over Story.  No game is all of one or the other in Roleplaying games.  At times a GM will have to make a decision that may or may not follow the rules as written.  Sometimes it is done due to a mistake, trying to keep the narrative going, or many other reasons.  Saul and Jolene give examples of why people like to have run games RAW.  

       Saul and Jolene discuss the idea of the GM telling the players of his game his expectations of the game that they will be running.  This will help alleviate any problems that could arise from players expecting a different game than the one the GM is intending to run.

    As always thank you all for listening and all we ask of you is that you share our podcast with friends and family in order to get our podcast to as many people as possible.  

    No music due to the podcast computer dying and being stubborn about being brought back to life.  

     This Bonus Episode was recorded on Saturday at Kublacon.  A little tired we got to our spot at 9am and began recording shortly there after.  Here is some notes about this show.

    At 1 minute  Kevin a Lifetime Kublacon badge holder joins us right away.                                 We talk to him from a variety of topics.  Thursday night                                       Kubla, playing online, RPGs in prison, kids affecting your                                   gaming.

     21:00           Our friend's son joins us, 15 year old Alan M.  Gives us his                                   first Kublacon memory and it includes a hot tub.  Games he                               has played and what he likes about Kublacon.

     43:30          Steve DeWinter joins us and tells us what he has been doing                              and what he has been working on.  Steve is a very busy man.                               We talk about his name change, Ashland Oregon, and the 40                              novels he has written.

     51:30           Just Do It and Steve's Wizard of Oz novel.

      55:30         Steve's game Starship Hero  Starship-hero.com

      1:00:00      Screen Writer format.

      1:06:00      Movie maker and Radio Drama creator.

      1:08:00      Narrative Adventure Story App, living next to Levi Stadium.

      1:23:00       Jolene is tired and hungry but we are joined by our friend                                   Bay to help us sign off for the day.  The game Sol Bay talked

                           about by Ryan Spangler is available from                                                                   Elephantlaboratories.com

       As always thanks for listening and please share with your friends and family.

     First of all I want to apologize for the lateness of this episode.  Technical difficulties prevented us from post these right after recording.  And even before we left for Kublacon our podcast computer died.  What I thought was a bad or corrupted boot file was worse.  So it taken a bit longer to get these episodes published.  

      We also recorded longer than our normal 30 minutes and the episodes area about an hour and a half long. 

    So I will be including a bit more detailed show notes.

   1-13 minutes Saul and Jolene talk about what games they  have been playing.

   14  Lifetime pass and Hyatt Regency discussion.

   21  Game of Thrones

   22  Ron Smith co creator of Wizardz Bluff talks about the game he is                     demoing at Kubla.  Can check out the game at Wizardzbluff.com 

    24  Back to Game of Thrones rant by Saul

    26:40  Steve and the Conan Boardgame Kickstarter and mandatory 

                  Kickstarter discussion.

     31:00    Flea Markets and Garage Sales finds.

     40:00    Empire of the Petal Thrones discussion

      48:40   Sean Nittner Comes by and talk about Big Bad Con.  How it                                started and what it has become.   Sean also talks about running                          Agon, Blades in the Dark and Ride or Die.  BigBadCon.com

       1:00:10  Theresa of Temple Gate Games sits and talks about her                                           "Exhibitor" badge and what she is doing at KublaCon.  Their                                products can be seen at Templegategames.com

        1:20:00   We sign off for the day.

       As always thanks for listening and please share with your friends and family.  

     What happens when your game goes a direction that you had not thought it would?  This happens to every GM.  Whether your a railroady type of GM or a more improve type sometimes your players really throw you for a loop. You don't know what to do.  Saul and Jolene discuss the idea of having one or two encounters that you can fit into almost any situation.  Something that you can slide in to help get the players back on track or just to tide you over until the next session where you can figure out what to do next in your campaign.  Though we talk about D&D this could fit into almost any RPG you play from Traveller, Numenera, Deadlands or whatever your playing this could help keep you sane.  

     We are coming up on Episode 52 which is our one year anniversary of starting our podcast.  We are thinking of doing something special.  So stay tuned.

   As always thanks for listening and all we ask is that you share with your family and friends.