Saul was looking at FB posts and he read a post concerning the topic of metacurrency in RPGs games.  The Original Poster had a rather negative view of metacurrency.  One that too many new RPGs were using this "gimmick".  Another complaint was that it drew him out of the immersion of the roleplaying session with the use of metacurrency which there was little or no explanation about the metacurrency in the actual play.   Another problem was that it seems lazy roleplaying game design.      This post got quite a few responses and Saul asked Jolene a ..read more

      This is a subject that is very close to every GM.  Saul who has been a GM for over 40 years has gotten things once or twice over those years from rules, to setting GMs can make mistakes.  Usually these mistakes do not have any long lasting effect on a long running game.         When Jolene told Saul about this topic from a Reddit topic, Saul starting thinking of mistakes he has made over the years and most were pretty small but couple affected the players characters significantly.    The Reddit poster had a question about approaching ..read more

     Saul was thinking about running an Urban FRPG in the near future and looked to see what kind of materials where available for running an Urban Campaign.   A campaign in that takes place entirely in a city.  He talked to Jolene about it.  She was intrigued by the concept and went off to find what she could on the subject.      Saul remembered a Physical Geography class from Jr. College that discussed where and why cites sprouted in certain areas.  Also how cites are constructed when planned or not, how they are populated and groups that for ..read more

      With Halloween coming up real soon, Saul and Jolene were discussing the idea of Horror RPGs specifically what it takes to run a good horror game.   Though Saul would say he is not the type of gamer that like the horror genre he does own more than a few Horror RPGs.  One of the first horror RPG he bought was Stalking the Night Fantastic back in the late 80's and Dark Conspiracy in the 1990's.  Saul now has quite a few what one would term Horror genre RPGs.        So how to you run an horror rpg and make it scary.  Jolene and Saul talk ..read more

      Saul and Jolene have experienced that player that wants to direct the other players action.  In boardgames its called quarterbacking.  In the old days of Original D&D and Advanced D&D there was the Caller, who told the DM who did what to make the game go by faster.  Back in the day Saul's brother and friends did not play that way.  Once he went to a D&D club and that was exactly how they played, and for Saul is was not fun at all.       So years later Saul and Jolene have experienced this phenomena at various tables at various ..read more

     Saul was looking at the Dragon Bane RPG boxset that was a gift from this brother Felipe.   He was looking at Low Fantasy Gaming and wondered why Dragon Bane was more successful.   They both very similar products.  Both were a D20 based Fantasy RPG, both are simple rules and yet there seems to be a disparity of how each was recieved by the RPG buying community.     Saul asked Jolene about this topic and she went to the internet and found various reasons why Dragon Bane was seemingly more popular than Low Fantasy Gaming.     Thank You All fo ..read more

            One of the many plights of GMs of RPGs is the dreaded getting the players to learn a new game.  Due to Saul's seeking to find that perfect RPG or just likes the "new shiny."   Due to this affliction Saul tries to share this affliction with all his players.  In some of Saul's groups the players groaned everytime they heard Saul had bought a new game.  In other groups his players were curiosious about some of the games in Saul's extensive RPG library.       In both groups the playes learned the game to various degrees o ..read more

    This week Saul and Jolene discuss the Long and Short rest from D&D 5th edtion.  Jolene had asked Saul what he thought about how these affected the game.  Jolene was not prepared for Saul's the long winded tirade about the topic.     At some point Jolene stopped Saul and told him it would make a good episode for the podcast.  Saul quickly got his GP notebook and starting scratching his thoughts about the Long and Short rest.         In short, Saul realized and not right away that he didsn't D&D's 5th edtion rules on the Lon ..read more

    Many times players and GM's ignore, change or get a rule wrong.  Sometime by accident, other times on purpose because  they don't like that rule.  Known as "House Rules", "Home Rules", and many other names changing and omitting rules is done all the time.   There are some type of rules that usually go out the window, whether you play the "Best Selling RPG" or the smallest "Indie RPG ruleset", rules get ignored.      Saul and Jolene had a conversation of some rules that are ignored at their RPG table.  Rules from D&D 5 Edition to Shadowr ..read more

Play and GM RPGs long enough and you will experience a gut busting funny RPG session.  This happens whether your are playing D&D, GURPs or any other RPG.  Play long enough and there is that session where everything comes together it is just play funny.          What about RPGs that try to bring that amusement, merriment or funny situations to the forefront of the game.   Saul and Jolene have played a wide assortment of games that are intended to be funny and some by their very nature bring out the laughter.  Saul and Jolene discuss their favorit ..read more