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     Saul and Jolene explore RPGs which subject are animals or anamorphic in nature.  Saul talks about his first experience playing an animal rpg called Bunnies and Burrows.  Saul goes into some deta…

     Though Saul and Jolene touched on the subject before Saul thought that a whole episode detailing Solo RPGs would be worth while.  

     With the Pandemic still raging across the world, though th…

     In this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about making a good RPG Villain.   They discuss only a few tips of many ways you can make a villain in your RPG stand out and not be a cliche.  Saul offers t…

    In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss how damage is determined in RPGs.  Though there are many implementations of how damage is determined, Saul believes there are really only two ways damage i…

  If you play any games you need to learn the rules, and RPGs are no different.  Most likely you play or are interested in a new game that is published and you have to Learn New RPG Rules.  Saul and …

    In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the reasons to look at and buy a new edition of a RPG.   Some reasons for a new edition are fixing errors as simple as typos, rule contradictions, or a …

     In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss armor in RPGs.  Saul and Jolene discuss the most popular ways armor is represented in RPGs.  From D&D's Armor Class to Traveller's ablative armor.  Each w…

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about Light RPGs.  Saul defines what he means by "light" RPGs and gives examples of what he considers light RPGs.  Saul and Jolene discuss RPGs from Tales Fr…

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the term "crunchy" in RPGs.  Saul, again, goes way back to the beginning when he first started playing roleplaying games, and the first game he played …

      In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss the Liminal RPG by Paul Mitchener.  It is a modern urban fantasy RPG set in England.  Saul received a free PDF from Modiphius and it garnered enough of a…

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about GMing Styles.  Saul and Jolene discuss how your GMing style impacts the games that you run from type of adventure to actual the RPG that you like to ru…

      In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss playing more than one character in a RPG.  Saul begins the discussion with playing back in the ole days of D&D where people would "play" a character of a…

        Part two of New RPGs for 2021.  Well new RPGs that Saul is really looking forward to in 2021.  In a more quick shotgun style of listing games, Saul rattles through more RPGs that are slated t…

     Happy New Years to Everyone.  In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss, well mainly Saul does, the most anticipated games for Gaming Perspectives.  Not even covering all the RPGs that are slated …

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about the evolution of Experience in RPGs.   Saul starts the conversation talking about how Original D&D dolled out the experience.  Using D&D as one example…

     In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss roleplaying a character using their stats or attributes as a framework for their RP.  Saul and Jolene also discuss how it can be difficult to roleplay a c…

    With the current pandemic situation the only type of gaming many are facing in online gaming.  So Saul and Jolene decided to talk about what they have tried and what else is out there for gamers …

    In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss the planning a short session adventure.  They discuss a short 4 hour 3 session game and the game con favorite the four hour session/adventure.  Running a c…

     After playing a few session of Call of Cthulhu games run but a couple different GM's, Saul and Jolene decided to talk about their experiences with CoC.  Saul goes to the way back machine to 1980…

     Sometimes when Saul and Jolene feel extra enthusiastic they record two episodes back to back.  Problem, sometimes Saul loses the recorded episode in the hundreds of files he has on his computer …