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 often as he did. From supporting the little guy, to the varied systems Indy publishers put out, to genres not done by big publishing companies Saul listed his reasons. Jolene went online to see what other people thought on this subject. The result of that discussion and Jolene's foray into the online Indy ttrpg scene is this episode. Thank you all for Listening! You can email us at gamingperspective.com@gmail.com Podcast Art by Jim D. Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones

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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 five TTRPGs. Saul didn't disclose his list until the recording of the episode to get her unfiltered reaction to his list. As Always, Thank you all for Listening! You can email us at gamingperspective.com@gmail.com Podcast Art by Jim D. Foster Episode Art by Michael Shean-Jones

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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 returned to players. After discussing what things could be done to make returning players more at ease in returning to the game table. What can GMs or player do to make this transition for players that are returning to the hobby after a long absence.

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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 watched numerous videos on the subject and then compared notes. After that discussion Saul and Jolene recorded this episode for Gaming Perspectives dealing with making and running mystery games. Thank you all for Listening!

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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 Saul and about it, where he understood where that sentiment came from, to which Jolene totally disagreed. What followed was a sprited discussion about actual plays and the result is this episode of Gaming Perspectives. Thank you all for Listening!

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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 asks questions to keep the players "in the game" and keeping the players attention on the game. After the discussion they wrote out their ideas and decided to do this episode on GM Questions. Thank you all for Listening!

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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 session another player called what Jolene did a Leroy Jenkins which made everyone laugh and Jolene stating that she did not pull a Leroy Jenkins. Jolene looked online and found that this was not a rare occurence in TTRPGs. Jolene and Saul discussed this and other situations to figure out if they could be considered a Leroy Jenkins move or not. The result is this episode of the podcast. Thank you all for Listening!

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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 on the High priced service when she discovered that the person was using AI. What was worse in Ginny's and Jolene's eyes was that after Ginny sent that person a message asking if the background was done using AI the contracted person denied using AI. Jolene asked Saul about this Ginny D's episode. Saul said that AI is getting pretty invasive in many aspects of life. From professional to amateur work. The use of AI is becoming a big issue in the world that goes far beyond TTRPGs. That discussion lead to the following episode. Thank you all for Listening! You can email us gamingperspective.com@gmail.com

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