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      In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss what Homebrews and House Rules are in RPGs.  Saul defines each one and gives examples of each.  They are different creatures though most people might thi…

In running games that have combat one of the most difficult things as a GM to work out is how hard to make an encounter.  This is usually called balancing an encounter.  In this episode Saul and Jole…

     This is a Spoiler Free Episode.

    Full disclosure Saul and Jolene are have been fans of the Wheel of Time Books since the mid 1990's, and they both love the TV show.  

     With that out of th…

   Its the Holiday Season and Saul and Jolene discuss games that would make great gifts for your RPG Gamer.  It's not a definitive list, obviously but it should give you a few quick ideas as Christma…

    In this episode Saul and Jolene discuss TPKs.  Saul has very little experience with TPKs and had for many years seen it as negative.  A sign of a terrible GM, or Players not playing very intellig…

     Saul has been noticing quite a few Kickstarters and new editions of old RPGs.   Some of them really old such as Runequest, Tunnels and Trolls and Twilight 2000.   In fact the Twilight 2000 4th e…

     At one point as a RPG players your going to get into a situation where you may not be playing in a game that isn't your favorite.  Whether the RPG game Shuffler at the Game Con did you wrong or …

      Saul and Jolene wondered about multiple GMs running a campaign together.  Not at the same time but alternating GM between adventures or story arcs.  When Jolene searched on the subject most of …

     A while back Saul Kickstarted Flames of Freedom rpg.  Over the Labor Day Weekend Saul and Jolene returned from the first Game Con in over a year and a half and the Flames of Freedom greeted them…

     This topic comes from Jolene reading RPG forum and Redit posts.  Jolene asked Saul if there were any published RPGs and Saul actually had one RPG in his collection and almost Kickstarted two pre…

The Halloween episode, where Saul and Jolene talk about running Halloween Themed Rpg games.

     Saul talks about obvious Halloween themes such as Horror and Mystery games that would fit in perfectly…

     Saul and Jolene discuss playing to your GMing Strengths.  If your good at art, lean into your art skills and bring that talent to the game table.  If your good at making funny voices use that sk…

    A few episodes ago Saul made a comment about 5th Edition D&D.  The gist of the comment was that a ruleset not intended as a generic RPG be used as a generic RPG.   This was aimed specifically at …

    A listener posed a question to Saul and Jolene, does there need to be a Villain in your RPG adventure or campaign.   Saul's first  thought that sure you can and Jolene wasn't so sure.  

    Saul …

     The One Ring RPG is one of Saul's favorite RPGs.   Saul liked The One Ring so much, he bought extra copies of the rules to give them out to various members of his RPG group.  Two failed One Ring…

     In this Episode Saul and Jolene talk about "Game Balance" in RPGs.  But there was a failure of a "meeting of the minds" between Saul and Jolene.   Saul was thinking of balance in encounters were…

     Though we all love an RPG we know the basic rules, which eliminates a hurdle that we gamers have to jump when playing RPGs.  There are times that a set of RPG rules fits the setting so well ther…

     Money and Wealth in RPGs is handled a multitude of ways from the beginning of RPGs when you just threw gold pieces at the player's characters in the 70's and 80's.

    Though many games still em…

      Saul and Jolene on a previous episode discussed making combat encounters more fun, so Saul thought they should discuss encounters that do not center on combat.  Non-Combat encounters, even in g…

     In this episode Saul and Jolene talk about making combat encounters and scenes more fun and interesting.  In certain games combat can be a long complicated process and could become dull and mund…