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GamingPerspectives
by Saul Morales
A husband and wife team discuss their life long love of hobby gaming from RPGs to Boardgames.
Episodes
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Episode 362: No To Hit Rolls, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss having no "To Hit" rolls for combat. Saul and Jolene have played a few TTRPGs one-shots where there were no "To Hit" rolls in combat. Saul wondered why would a TTRPG creator move away from having to roll to hit in their TTRPG game they are making. Saul...
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Episode 361: Bring Back OOP TTRPGs Support, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul was looking at Reddit RPG topics and there was a question about if you could bring back suport for any out of print TTRPG which one would it be. It was pretty open ended question and as one might expect the answers were very varied. The games ranged from old to obscure. Saul noticed that…
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Episode 360: Why Gamers Don't Go to Game Cons, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul and Jolene attended a gaming convention called Pacificon in Santa Clara California. When Saul got home he asked Jolene about people, gamers, that don't go to cons. Saul had some ideas and discussed them with Jolene. That discussion is the basis of this episode. Saul and Jolene included a...
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Episode 359: The Considerate TTRPG Player, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. Saul and Jolene recorded this during a heatwave and so there is a bit of...
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Episode 358: Which is Lighter Fate or Legend, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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…
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Episode 357: A Good RPG for First Time GMs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. He talked to Jolene about it and though she did not...
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Episode 356: Advice for Experienced Players, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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...
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Episode 355: Character Creation Systems, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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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Episode 354: Why Buy Indy TTPRGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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". Jolene asked him why he bought Indy published RPGs. Saul pontificated why he thought he bought Indy published titles as...
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Episode 353: Top Five TTRPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. Saul as usual put his own spin on the question of the biggest...
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Episode 352: Returning TTRPG Players, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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...
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Episode 351: Mystery Games, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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...
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Episode 350: Actual Plays Detrimental to the TTRPG Hobby, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. She talked to…
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Episode 349: GM Questions, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene was looking online at how GM's run games. She came across the topic of the GMs asking questions to their players. Jolene saw a lot of threads and forums discussing this topic. Jolene asked saw about this topic and they both had a lengthy discussion about this topic. Saul said he usually…
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Episode 348: Leroy Jenkins, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Somehow Saul missed the 20th Anniversary of the Leroy Jenkins but it came up during the last gaming session both Saul and Jolene were playing in. So at one point there is a big battle at a beach where Jolene's character went charging into before any fellow players could react. Post the game…
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Episode 347: AI in TTRPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene was on Youtube watching various videos and came across Ginny D's video about using a service to write your character's background for a TTRPG. She wanted to contrast the difference between the work of people that charged a Low, Medium and High fee for this service. Ginny D was a bit upset…
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Episode 346: What If the Next D&D Goes All Digital, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene and Saul were on Youtube and came across a video by Dungeon Craft and he was talking about the future of D&D. He predicted that when a 6th edition of D&D comes out in the next few years it would be "Digital Only", meaning there would be no physical books and the only way to get the rules…
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Episode 345: The Fantasy Trip, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene and Saul recently played in a A Fantasy Trip: Melee RPG recently. Jolene was very interested in the game and wanted to know more about Melee. Saul explained that it was one of their friend's oldest favorite RPG. So Jolene took to the internet and found some interesting comment about The...
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Episode 344: Buy or Make Up Your Own Modules, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul and Jolene were talking and Jolene asked Saul which did he prefer to do buy an adventure module or make up his own. That was a complicated answer that lead to a lengthy discussion. After that chat they decided it would make a good episode to record. So Saul and Jolene did just that. They...
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Episode 343: Why Do GMs Run Games,
Why do GM's, Referees, Keepers, Loremasters of many other people that "run" RPG game do it? This was a question that Saul across online and since Saul GM's quite a bit he asked himself and other fellow GMs why they GM roleplaying games. As you would guess not all people that run RPGs do it for…
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Bonus Episode: Marigolds Dwarven Tale, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
A friend of Saul and Jolene ran two TTRPGs back to back on a Friday evening over Zoom using a lite ruleset called There and Back Again, and on Saturday morning The One Ring 2nd Edition RPG. The games did not use the same characters. On Friday the players played a group of Dwarves who set out to...
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Episode 342: What Games Are People Running, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul and Jolene were watching Youtube and came across Dungeon Craft whose host had gone to Gen Con in 2025. He was amazed at the size of the convention and the number of TTRPGs sessions that were available for convention attendees to play in. He decided to do some number crunching to figure out...
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Episode 341: New Year New RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. Thank you all for Listening! You can email us at...
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Episode 340: Rules You Need to Know, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. Saul states that he really dislikes the opening of the rulebook at the table as it distracts players and stops…
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Episode 339: Brindlewood Bay as Closer Look, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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…
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Epiosde 338: Player Engagement, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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 at times hard. Saul and Jolene over the years have noticed that some people find it hard to pay attention to the game during a session. Things that make people tune out of the...
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Episode 337: Adding a Player to an Existing Campaign, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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...
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Episode 336: Lethal or Deadly RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. Saul mentioned it to Jolene. Saul went into his...
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Episode 335: The Three Pillars, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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. Saul starting thinking about how some games or genres don't rely on these Three...
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Episode 334: TTRPGs Niche or Big Deal, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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...
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Episode 333: Troika the RPG, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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…
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Bonus Episode: Galaxycon and Pacificon, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
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…
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Episode 332: Video To TTRPG Gamer, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
A listener, Phil, asked about how easy would it be for a video gamer to become a TTRPG gamer. At first glance it would be a no brainer that those that played video game on a conole or PC would move to playing TTRPGs. Saul and Jolene talked about some of those differences and what similarities…
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Episode 331: PCs Running Away, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Many times there seems a point in an RPG when the players should either not fight an encounter. Why do players not consider the tactic of running away. Saul and Jolene discussed this topic. Saul admitted that he ran a lot of D&D and Pathfinder and the rules are set up for the GM to match the...
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Episode 330: Play Styles, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul was reading and thinking about long campaigns and what it took to keep them going for extended period of time. Saul ran two D&D to Pathfinder Campaigns from 2001 to 2009. Then he started running campaigns for his 6 year old son and his friends. Saul ran another 2 campaigns starting with...
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Episode 329: Attacks Before Initiative, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene was reading about a GM who was running D&D 5th edition had players trying to do combat actions before the GM had called for Initiative. She asked Saul about this and asked if it happened in his D&D or any other RPGs he had GMed. After a brief discussion they decided to do an episode on…
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Episode 328: Players Not Learning the Rules, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul was looking at Reddit posts and came across a GM that was lamenting that his players had not learned their characters abilities after 10 sessions of D&D 5th edition. The GM didn't go into too much detail, for example age of players, experience of players, etc. Saul noticed the large number…
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Episode 327: Running Non-Violent RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene was looking at the different types of games she has played in. Though she likes tactical combat games. She loves Shadowrun 5th edition and D&D for example, she also likes mysteries, dramas, and crime solving. So she asked Saul about what games do not concentrate on combat but other types…
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Episode 326: Rotating GMs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene was looking for some interesting topics to talk about and came across an article discussing Rotating GMs. She looked for more articles and there were quite a few articles and discussion on how to do this type of roleplaying. Jolene asked Saul and about it. Saul told her he had tried it a...
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Episode 325: Things GMs Say, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene was reading online and came across an article that talked about things that GMs say that players should pay attention to. She told Saul and this and Saul thought about some things he says that conveys more than intended. Sometimes these comments from GMs are questions, in fact most of them...
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Episode 324: GM Couldn't Kill PC, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Jolene was looking online at RPG topics and came across a confession by a new GM. This novice GM was running their first campaign which they had been running with new players for nine months. There was a point in the game were a character would have been killed but the GM pulled their punch. The...
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Episode 323: Stealing From RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
A question was asked about what are some things that you found in one RPG that as a GM would Steal to use in all other RPGs that you run. Saul and Jolene each thought abou the topic and they each found something that they really liked that they believed could be "easily" used in a variety of…
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Episode 322: Feedback Post Session, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
A listener was thinking about some games he played with a particular GM, who took a few minutes after the game asking how the session went. So this listener asked what would be the best way or some hints as to asking for feedback right after the session ends. Saul and Jolene discussed how this...
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Episode 321: Best Non D&D Campaigns, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
A listener asked what we thought were some good Non D&D published campaigns? Saul questioned what makes a good, quality and fun campaign. Saul's criteria was the same if it was you home campaign but in a published one it is essential that the criteria that Saul sets out is met. There are many...
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Episode 320: Monster of the Week RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolen
A listener asked about a good RPG to run a Monster of the Week game. Saul came up what criteria would make a good Monster of the Week game. From ease of rules, types of character and other factors. Then Saul and Jolene talked about what games would make it easy to run a Monster of the Week game....
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Episode 319: Getting Those Games to the Table, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
A listener asks about getting a RPG off the Shelf of Shame and on the the table to play. This is a problem that inflicts both RPG gamer and board gamer as both groups have this problem. Both have games that have not hit the game table and for many a gamer this is a terrible source of frustration....
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Episode 318: Cozy RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul was at Kubla Autumn a new game con taking place over Veteran's Day which is celebrated here in the U.S. on November 11th. Right when he got there he sat in a seminar the dealt with the future of boardgames. In that seminar they talked about Cozy games. Saul immediately thought of Cozy RPGs....
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Episode 317: When Players Do Weird Things, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
In the long time that Saul has been playing RPGs, there has been some instances where players did some weird things. At least unexpected things that he saw as both a GM and a Player. Saul remembers a couple instances where players acting strange may have caused problems in the session. Jolene...
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Episode 316: Run Those IP RPGs, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
In this Episode Saul and Jolene discuss why some GMs do not like running Intellectual Property games. Those are games based on books, Tv shows, or movies. Whether its Conan, Star Wars, Star Trek of hundreds of other RPGs that are based on others creative works some GMs shy away from running these...
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Episode 315: Running on Short Notice and Time, Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene
Saul is slowly recovering from heart valve surgery but Jolene and Saul are back to recording episodes. This episode comes from a Reddit post about a GM that needs to run a game with no prep for 1st time players with only a 2 hour window. Though many answers were the names of games that people...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A husband and wife team discuss their life long love of hobby gaming from RPGs to Boardgames.
HOSTED BY
Saul Morales
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