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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 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

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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

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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...

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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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Episode 520: Cell Phone From the Elder Things

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2022/10/28

In the Gaming Hut we address a query from beloved Patreon backer Steven Dosman on keeping the solutions of mysteries far enough away from characters with the competence and point spends to solve them. The Mythos Hut obeys the command of estimable backer Joshua Randall, who seeks the eldritch secrets behind the Antarctic doom of […]

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Episode 519: Everything Weak and Flimsy

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2022/10/21

The Gaming Hut as always uses Skynet for your benefit, providing ways to use AI art at your roleplaying table. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to two someones: Katarzyna “Kate” Kuczynska and Marcin “Martin” Kuczynski of Game Machinery, publisher of the Defiant Roleplaying Game. In the Horror Hut we look […]

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Episode 518: A Big Fan of Heliocentrism

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2022/10/14

Belle Époque wings flutter as the Gaming Hut brings the faery world into The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. Ken issues a Travel Advisory for his recent visit to the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. In How to Write Good we look at calibrating your characters’ complexity level to the story you are telling. […]

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Episode 517: Kinda Goopy

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2022/10/07

The first annual Robin and Valerie International Film Festival has come to an end, and just like TIFF before it, that means Robin has a list of movies to recommend to you in the Cinema Hut. The twist: this time you can find and watch them right away. Then in The Business of Gaming we […]

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Episode 516: Co-Frankensteining

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2022/09/30

We enter the Gaming Hut to ponder the constituency of gamers who prefer lots of crunch, but don’t actually use it when they play. In the History Hut beloved Patreon backer Gene Ha asks if electricity-loving Benjamin Franklin was the real modern Prometheus. The Culture Hut situates itself near a vast outdoor art work as […]

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Episode 515: Live from Gen Con 2022

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2022/09/23

Rob Heinsoo and Gareth-Ryder Hanrahan step in for a sadly absent Robin as the annual live episode from Gen Con returns from the slumber of Pandemicland. They join Ken for a robust discussion of talking animals in the War of the First Coalition, Malort, why The King in Yellow gets restaged all the time, dealing […]

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Episode 514: Joseph Campbell in a Jar

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2022/09/16

In the Gaming Hut we look at a largely foregone phenomenon in tabletop, the roleplaying tournament. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Dan L, the Tradecraft Hut examines Project Coast, South Africa’s apartheid-era chemical weapons program, and its head, Wouter “Dr. Death” Basson. Esteemed backer Chad Ward meets us in the Mythology Hut to […]

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Episode 513: Tiptoe Away from His Flailing Proboscis

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2022/09/09

The Gaming Hut exists in all dimensions as beloved Patreon backer Jacob Boersma asks how to giving Evelyn Wang’s multiversal powers from Everything Everywhere All at Once to player characters. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to Cody Swendrowski, developer for the Foundry virtual tabletop platform, who tells how its community […]

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Episode 512: The Spiders Pay For Themselves

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2022/09/02

In the Mythos Hut we decide that fish people and serpent folk have hogged the spotlight for too long. It’s time for us to invent some humanoid toads, of the psychedelic variety of course, and wrap them into a Fall of DELTA GREEN scenario hook. Inevitably, Fun With Science must grapple, so to speak, with […]

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Episode 511: I Just Wanted to Say Astrosome

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2022/08/26

Foul sorcerers flee the Gaming Hut as beloved Patreon backer Jesse Lowe asks for the best Earth-based setting for swords and sorcery—the Hellenistic Era excepted, of course. In Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, designer Gwen Marshall joins Ken to discuss the thinking behind such acclaimed projects as the ENnie-winning Ancestry & Culture and […]

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Episode 510: The Worst Chocolate, The Worst Cake

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2022/08/19

Normally a post-Gen Con debrief takes up an entire episode. But since only one of us was there, Ken gives Robin the lowdown in a double-header Travel Advisory segment. In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Mikey Hamm wants to emulate genres in which death is threatened but never actually happens. We conclude with Ken’s […]

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Episode 509: Charismatic Megafauna of Food

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2022/08/12

In the Gaming Hut we demonstrate how to dovetail player-created character hooks into your scenario, as Ken proposes a Freaking Weird Moment for his This is Normal Now character and Robin weaves it into a trio of mystery premises. The Culture Hut uncovers a Dreamhound of Chicago, 30s surrealist painter Gertrude Abercrombie. Then we duck […]

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Episode 508: KARTAS A-Z

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2022/08/05

On August 2, 2012, the first installment of Ken and Robin Talks About Stuff debuted to a waiting gaming world. For our recent 500th episode celebration, we held the traditional Lightning Round. For this extra special anniversary, we take a look back at the show, its topics and its origins with an A to Z […]

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Episode 507: Awesomely Underfunded

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2022/07/29

In the Gaming Hut, Beloved Patreon backer Eric Jeppesen, or a clever facsimile thereof, kicks off an all-request episode, as he wonders how to run GUMSHOE One-2-One with a doppelganger protagonist. Stealthy backer Erik R gains access to the Tradecraft Hut to ask how to set Night’s Black Agents in Asia. Dimensionally resonant backer […]

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Episode 506: His Bonaparte Eyes

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2022/07/22

The Gaming Hut floats further from land than it ever has as beloved Patreon backer Alden Strock seeks the tabletop uses of Point Nemo, the planet’s literal middle of nowhere. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to author Ben Riggs about his history of TSR, Slaying the Dragon, now orderable from […]

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Episode 505: Move Them Back to the Fun

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2022/07/15

The next time you’re about to design a situation where the players can’t do what they want to do, you’ll recall this week’s Gaming Hut segment and think, “How do I let them do that without wrecking everything?” The Crime Blotter investigates a string of rhino horn thefts attributed to the Dead Zoo Gang. In […]

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