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 the same reason, though many peoples reason does overlap. Saul asked Jolene why she GMs and after that discussion they decided to record an episode on the subject.

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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 enter Moria, against the standing order of King Dain Ironfoot. It was literally a tale of There and Back Again. Saturday the players in an on going campaign are around the area of Tharbad. In the past we encountered a pair of Dwarves and later heard about a group of them passing through the ancient city of Tharbad. So the storylines intertwined but only for a moment. Jolene decided to write a tale that one would hear at a tavern. Her character in The One Ring is a schlar and a bit of a storywriter. From her notes of the game and imagination was born Marigold's Dwarven Tale. Saul edited it and added some sound effects but the story was all Jolene. 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 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 what were the top ten TTRPGs by the number of sessions offered. As he went down the list some of them were no surprise and others were. On a late night sometime after watching that video, Saul decided to do the same for an upcoming local convention called DunDraCon. How many TTRPGs were offered and what games had the highest number of games offered of each RPG game is what Saul wanted to figure out. Going through every game offered he wrote down each RPG and if there were offered more than once he noted it with a hash mark. In this episode Saul and Jolene present his totally unofficial findings.

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