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When you are creating an adventure or a complete RPG for public consumption one thing you really need as a creator is Feedback.  From one shot adventures, longer adventures, campaigns you need feedback to hone your creation to make it as best as it can be.   Good Feedback is essential to making your creation to be as successful as it can be.  With self publishing become a large part of TTRPGs, you as a creator need good feedback on your creation.  

    Thank you all for Listening

    Music by Nathan Brumley, song The Games That Play Us,  off the album Shay Watson

     Saul was reading a Reddit and came across a post asking if people used maps or visual aids in their roleplaying games.  The poster also stated that they only used a while board and magnitized tokens in his sessions.  The OP then asked if you do use maps or visual aids how integral are they to your game.  

    Music by The Legend of Wolf,  song Crossing the Map,  off the album L:issle

Saul read an article about a couple of RPGs that had elimnated the Iconic Mechanic of Rolling to Hit.  Saul mentioned the idea to Jolene.  Jolene had a lot of questions about the whole idea and how it would work.   Jolene's questions were why, how and would it be fun?  

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    Music by Riff Master, song Rolling with Thunder,  off the album Enter the Realm

     Hey there Listeners,  Happy New Year!  Saul and Jolene were reminicing some of the more memorable times of their games. Jolene mentioned the times that they came across some very powerful creatures, Dragons were high on the list from game of D&D to Shadowrun.  Other powerful beings were giants, demigods and gods.  Saul and Jolene discussed what made those moment memorable and how and why they interacted with the Player Characters.  

    Music by Jay Van Ijzer, song Demigods

It is the New Year and as we look forward to 2025 EN Publishing asks what New RPGs we are looking forward to the New Year.  Saul choose his top three and discusses some of the games that made the list.  Saul noticed quite a few games are getting a 2nd edition and other are being resurrected from the way back machine and are getting a new edition thanks in no small part due to Kickstarter and other crowd funding platforms.

    Music by  A to the G, song By New Year's Day

There was a post on Reddit about how RPGers read rulebooks for new RPGs before they ran a session.  The answers at first were vey like minded.  People stating that they read the rulebook completely.  From reading it once to reading the rulebook from cover to cover multple times.  

    Music by Tobin James,  song Rules of the Road 

     Saul was reading Reddit posts and came across a post about players playing themselves too much in RPGs.  There was quite a bit of a discussion and most respondents said they didn't play themselves at all because they didn't want to play their boring lives.

     Saul on the other hand thought that he had for most of his RPG life had played himself or an aspect of his personality in the game.  Usually a one dimensional character.  As Saul got older he started to branch out and play characters that were totally different than himself.

       Thank you all for listening as we start to close out 2024 and head into the New Year!

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    Music by Claudio Souza Mattes, song Adapt Yourself, off the album Rewind

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     Jolene was looking online and found a person who was asking for help.  They had never GMed a RPG and they only had two players.  The person was asking if there were any games that were made for one GM and two players.  Jolene asked Saul about this and after a brief discussion they decided to do an episode on the subject.

    Music by Lead to Gold, song Less is More,  off the album 10 Minutes with LTG

         A listener and friend asked Saul and Jolene about a question his daughter had asked him.  The questions was, "Should a GM change a dungeon campaign after the players make characters that can see in the dark."  The GM designed the dungeon with the idea of limited visibility of the characters due to it being pitch black in the dungeon.  Slightly upset at the characters the GM decided to change the dungeon.  Is it okay for the GM to change the adventure after devulging information of the game?

    Music by Sounds Hilarious, song Changing!, off the album Make Money with Music

     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