Godzilla Gaming Podcast - Show 2.1

At last! It’s good to get the show back on the road! This month Cam and I are talking about bringing new people into the gaming hobby. To help us out, we’ve got Jenny McConnell, a co-worker of mine from Tokyo, to help us out and give us her perspective on being a newbie gamer.

There's a bit of ghosting on the soundtrack during the feature - still shaking down the equipment here so I apologize for that.

I’ll be running The Mountain Witch in January at Endgame in Oakland, California. Endgame is the gamestore I’ve always wanted to go to, and one of the owners is Chris Hanrahan of the Ogre Cave Audio Report, which is the premier gaming industry news podcast (as far as I’m, concerned).

Nobilis, Warhammer (CSI: Middenheim!), and The Mountain Witch were all on the table last month. If anyone out there has played these, shoot me an email – I’d love to hear what your group did with these!

Next month I think we’ll scrounge up some interesting J-snack for your gastronomic edification (did I just use ‘edification’ in a sentence) but this month we do a little traveling. Check out the Japanese Sword Museum and the Edo-Tokyo Museum if you’re in Tokyo, and the Toshogu Shrine is in Nikko, only a 90-minute train ride from Ueno. All three are perfect for getting you pumped for some samurai gaming!

In our review, we look at Arc Dream's Godlike, the World War Two superhero RPG, which turned out to be a lot better for me than I thought. Godlike is grim and gritty, and really captures the mood of World War Two combat.

In our feature, we’re on about introducing new players to RPGs. We’d love to hear about your experiences with bringing new people to the hobby! Send your stories and any other comments about the show to [e-mail]

See you next month!