On your face and give me fifty you maggots!!!

...err, sorry. Just my old memories of basic training bubbling up to the surface. This month Cam and I talk about military roleplaying games and how to put the focus on the characters and less on the wargame aspects that often come up (for obvious reasons). We also have a review of the Angel Roleplaying Game from Eden Studios. Listener feedback and What We've Been Playing round out a very full show. Hope you enjoy it!

News, Feedback, and What We've Been Playing

Pin yourself up on our Frappr Map!

Call Recorder for Skype rocks! All my fellow gaming podcasters, trash the virtual spaghetti you've been using to do your interviews and download this  now!

Catch up on the Legend of the Five Rings campaign we've just finished here. Then check out the Nikko Toshogu Shrine that helped inspire me for the game!

Cam is cooking up more Unknown Armies madness! Lost plays of Shakespeare anyone?

Life sucks? Join the French Foreign Legion!

Burning Empires baby!

The Shab Al-Hiri Roach wants you! I know the title is WTFBBQ, but seriously, check it out, you won't regret it (unless you eat the roach...).

Feature: Military Roleplaying Games

Lawrence Schick's Heroic Worlds is an invaluable gaming resource, even if it only covers games up to 1990.

I have no fear when it comes to running military RPGs, so yeah, I've played 'em all, starting way back in the '80's with games like Behind Enemy Lines and Merc. Twilight 2000 was my old warhorse.

Weird War Two for Savage Worlds is my latest project. It is based on the D20 version of the game, also released by the Pinnacle Entertainment Group, for which I wrote the Pacific Theater supplement, Land of the Rising Dead. When Savage Worlds: Weird War Two comes out, I hope it will be a playable and accessible military roleplaying game.

Books like The Thin Red Line have a big influence on my military RPG campaigns. You can see it in play in the Actual Play threads of the playtests we did for Weird War Two last year on the PEG forums.

I am very interested in military RPGs with a character focus and not a hardware/wargame focus. One I've found is Unsung. Haven't had a chance to play it yet but it's exploring the path I'm interested in.

Review: Angel Roleplaying Game

Yah, I like chopping up undead bloodsucking freaks. What can I say?

Send your feedback to godzilla.gaming@gmail.com, or just post up here!

See you next month!

I think I finally have Skype tamed, and not by wrangling it together with Audacity; I've pretty much given up that route. A new piece of software I found called Skype Recorder is specifically made to record Skype calls and convert them to MP3 format. Yay!

Anyway, I'll be talking to Andy next week, and I should have the interview posted up about a week after Show #5, which Cam and I are going to record on Monday.

If you have any questions you'd like to ask Andy regarding J-RPGs, post 'em up here right quick (before 5/30).

This month we read some listener email (thanks guys!) and we talk about the games we're playing right now. In our feature segment we get into setting up and running epic scale roleplaying campaigns. Finally, our review this month looks back to 1986* and GDW's hard sci-fi roleplaying game of humanity's battle for the stars -  2300 AD.

The Mountain Witch actual play thread.

The most epic Legend of the Five Rings: Hour of the Boar actual play thread.

Feel free to comment on either thread in the RPG Net threads or here on the blog.

Pentapod's World - A superlative website with heaps of stuff for 2300 AD, and dozens of links to other 2300 AD related websites. I got this one bookmarked!

Far Future Enterpises is the current publisher of all of the old GDW Traveller, 2300 AD and Twilight 2000 RPG titles. The 2300 AD CD-ROM is an amazing collection and a real bargain for what you get!

Also I forgot to mention it in the intro, but I have set up a Frappr Map (like every other podcast out there) so go pin yourself up on it - I'm sure we can span the globe with Godzilla Gamers!

And if you know how to get Audacity to work with Skype on Mac OS 10.4.6 shoot me an email at godzilla.gaming@gmail.com

Finally, let us know about your experiences with bringing new players into RPGs. How have you gone about it? How did it go?

Looking forward to your feedback!

*Where were you in 1986? I was in my second year of uni...