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Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Kenneth Hite and Robin D Laws

Podcast by Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws

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Episode 539: Players and/or Humans

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/03/17

In the Gaming Hut we wonder whether it is always bad for the players to figure out the mystery prior to the big reveal scene. A relic heist comes under scrutiny in the History Hut as beloved Patreon backer Mark D. Rinna asks why black ops crusaders raided the tomb of St. Nicholas. Installment seven […]

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Episode 538: Perhaps an Exploder

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/03/10

We hope you’re wearing headphones for this one because we start in the Gaming Hut with a request from beloved Patreon backer Kevin L. Nault asks us to wrap a campaign around ear-entering, disease-causing ghosts. Then the Tradecraft Hut looks up in the sky for the truth about spy balloons. Finally, the Cinema Hut makes […]

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Episode 537: Bring Me the Incompetent Laggard File

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/03/03

We appear to be stuck in the Gaming Hut as beloved Patreon backer Walter Manbeck seeks tips on scenarios set in confined spaces. In the Tradecraft Hut estimable backer Dan L seeks gaming inspiration from Operation Pedro Pan, a covert effort to migrate unaccompanied teens and kids to the US from early 60s Cuba. The […]

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Episode 536: A Box Somewhere in Scotland

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/02/24

In the Gaming Hut we ask ourselves what we would pitch to Disney if they asked us to design an F20 game using their characters. Beloved Patreon backer Toonspew draws us to the Monster Hut to contemplate the prospect of evil unicorns. We take our seats in the Cinema Hut for installment five of our […]

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Episode 535: NASA is Not in the Neck Adjustment Business

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/02/17

The topic may be vagueness but the analysis remains sharp as the Gaming Hut looks at open questions and unsolved mysteries in RPG setting material. In Fun With Science, we look for plot hooks in the ChatGPT AI text generator, including the inevitable query about its Mythos implications from beloved Patreon backer Tom Abella. The […]

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Episode 534: Manimal Utopia

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/02/10

Beloved Patreon backer Michael Gemar requests that The Business of Gaming tackle Wizards of the Coast’s latest adventures in managing the Dungeons and Dragons Open License. We thought that would be one segment. Hear it, in real time, turn into three! That leaves room for the Cinema Hut’s Science Fiction Film Essentials series to reach […]

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Episode 533: Best Non-Answer of the 19th Century

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/02/03

In the Gaming Hut we look at what characters should do more often in horror: run! At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Eric Saltwell, the Word Hut seeks the real truth behind Unicode ghost kanji. In part two of our Cinema Hut Science Fiction Essentials series, we finally get to some actual movies, the […]

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Episode 532: In Which Ken Is Shot

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/01/27

In the Gaming Hut we remember our friend and colleague Darren Watts, prolific Champions designer and former head of Hero Games. The Crime Blotter comes a little too close to home for comfort as Ken tells the story of his recent shooting. We kick off a new series in the Cinema Hut, Science Fiction Cinema […]

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Episode 531: The Copts Still Have His Head

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/01/20

In response to this Caity Weaver New York Times Magazine article, beloved Patreon backer Scott Wachter makes the Gaming Hut a very quiet place indeed by asking us for the scenario possibilities of anechoic chambers. Estimable backer Ray Slakinski beckons us to the Northern Ontario location of the Horror Hut to discuss the Wilno vampire. […]

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Episode 530: More Than One Adida

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/01/13

Fire up your automated die rollers as the Gaming Hut goes digital to answer beloved Patreon backer Marc Kevin Hall’s request for guidance on running tabletop RPGs online. In the History Hut, unswerving backer Jeromy French unwittingly illuminates the number one rule of Canadian history by seeking the secrets behind the assassination of Ontario newspaperman […]

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Episode 529: More Cryptids Than It Can Consume...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/01/06

We start by whittling some polyhedrals in the Gaming Hut, as beloved Patreon backer Derrick Yates asks us to sketch out an Appalachian cryptid campaign. In The Business of Gaming we discuss another reason the books you’re waiting for are late, the great freelancer / creator crash-out of 2022. Then another long dormant segment returns, […]

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Episode 528: Live at Dragonmeet

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/12/23

After nearly three chaotic years, the universe has begun to right itself, as you can tell when this episode recorded live at Dragonmeet enters your ear canals. Ken answers the call of the nerdtrope card. Then, fortified by sticky toffee pudding and Christmas sandwiches, we talk topical villains, the cure for cursed dice, the occult […]

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Episode 527: 100% Game Handoutable

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/12/16

Our weary protagonists, fresh from Dragonmeet, stumble into the Gaming Hut. There they undergo the sort of deductive epiphany required, as per a request from beloved Patreon backer Keelan O’Hea, to bring visual “aha” moments into investigative games. Then London’s National Gallery becomes the Culture Hut as our heroes recall their visit to its current […]

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Episode 526: From What Steve Did

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/12/09

We start as per usual in the Gaming Hut, where this time beloved Patreon backer Bart Mallio asks for tips on combining The Esoterrorists with Night’s Black Agents. Then we move onto an ever-shifting southwestern Culture Hut, as estimable backer Robert Wolfe seeks knowledge on cartoonist George Herriman’s Krazy Kat and its effect on the […]

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Episode 525: Neptune Reveal Party

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/12/02

In the Gaming Hut we look at scenario text as a place to put GM advice. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Bret Kramer the History Hut hosts the tale of German-born eventual doctor Gottfried Knoche, who in the late 19th century took his penchant for mummification innovation to Venezuela. In Ken and/or Robin […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Andor, Guardians Holiday...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/11/29

Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we’ll talk about […]

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Episode 524: Let’s Just Dump It in the West

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/11/25

In the Gaming Hut we mull a peculiar property of RPGs as narrative, the expectation that a scenario will set up more plot elements than it actually pays off. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Jurie Horneman, the Cartography Hut gets out a map to look at the 50 square mile legal loophole known […]

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Episode 523: Never Seen With a Windsock

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/11/18

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Elias Helfer asks us how to start researching real-world places we intend to use in our games. The Archaeology Hut dusts off a request from estimable backer Steve Dempsey for a profile of innovative site diggers Tessa and Mortimer Wheeler. At the behest of regal backer Paul Douglas […]

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Episode 522: Pre-Rex

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/11/11

As noted wearers of colorful shirts, we are uniquely qualified to enter a Hawaiian edition of the Gaming Hut. There we respond to the call of beloved Patreon backer Kristian Groenseth, who wants to us to fit Magnum P.I. into Trail of Cthulhu. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks with J-M […]

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Episode 521: You Can’t See Atlantis for All the...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/11/04

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Neil Barnes dons his lovingly constructed Benjamin Disraeli costume to ask how to best portray historical figures at the roleplaying table. The Cinema Hut looks at the flattening of cinematography in the streaming era, asking the question that is on all of your lips. Is Netflix the new […]

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