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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 483: Don’t Come at Me, Circle People

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/02/11

In the Gaming Hut we look at GMing techniques to respond to that moment when one player makes a unilateral choice that causes the rest of the group to groan in protest. The History Hut acquires a pointy hat as beloved Patreon backer Bob J. Koester asks us to delve into Yale’s 1825 Conic Sections […]

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1:02:39

Episode 482: I Never Really Got Rid of Her

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/02/04

The launch pad has been positioned uncomfortable close to the Gaming Hut, as beloved Patreon backer Neil Barnes seeks ways to center a game around the Soviet Space Program. The Crime Blotter has to wait a little while longer for that immersion blender as we look at the recent media flap over package thefts from […]

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1:03:43

Episode 481: We Love This Gnoll

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/01/28

In the Gaming Hut we consider the genre all tabletop roleplaying games bend toward. Spoiler: it has to do with the players. Our ongoing Mythos Hut process of creating a new Lovecraftian god reaches the stage where we outline a story to introduce her. What will Qotha-Nhur’rin, the Destruction at the Heart of Creation, get […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Hawkeye, Finch,...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/01/25

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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1:15:35

Episode 480: Not Described Otherwise as Being a Metal...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/01/21

The Gaming Hut attempts to pin down a much-used bit of tabletop terminology as beloved Patreon backer Ludovic Chabant asks what we mean when we say that a game breaks. Esteemed Patreon backers Jeromy French and Bryce Perry weave into the Food Hut, hungry and wanting to know more about archetypal drunk food, and why […]

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1:04:28

Episode 479: His Old Draping Skills

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/01/14

Get ready for twists and Gaming Hut turns as beloved Patreon backer Terry Robinson asks for advice on genre shifts on the tabletop. The Tradecraft Hut finds intrigue behind an old-timey Canadian historical footnote with a profile on Thomas Miller Beach, infiltrator of the Fenians. In part two of our Mythos Hut series on creating […]

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1:19:08

Episode 478: His Pursevant Had Dropsy

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2022/01/07

We open up the Gaming Hut for another year and find a strangely folded missive from beloved Patreon backer Stephen Dosman, who wants us to incorporate the practice of letter-locking into historical games. A new series begins in the Mythos Hut, as we construct a Lovecraftian deity, starting with a look at the common qualities […]

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1:11:02

Episode 477: Not For That, But Not Not For That

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/12/24

Nestle your rattling dice and thumping miniatures with care for our final episode of 2021. In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Bob Grider seeks the connection between the King in Yellow and locally celebrated fast food chain White Castle. The History Hut goes nautical once more as formidable backer Dave Munro requests the rundown […]

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1:25:49

Episode 476: Homeostasis and Recurrence in Great...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/12/17

In the Gaming Hut we find ways to design scenarios that highlight the cool and unique features of a location. It’s that most wonderful time of the year as the Horror Hut contemplates Christmas ghost stories. The Mythology Hut takes a look, get it, look, at the oddball Greek mythological figure Argus Panoptes. Due to […]

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1:07:44

Episode 475: Romance or Blasphemy

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/12/10

Hey look it’s another all-request episode! Beloved Patreon backer Kieron Gillen opens the Gaming Hut, which we hope isn’t a portal into a hellish otherrealm, to ask how designers screen out their skill as GMs during in-house playtests. Erudite backer Bruce Miller infiltrates the Book Hut to ask about Richard Marsh’s The Beetle, a horror […]

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1:03:19

Episode 474: Becuthbert

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/12/03

In the Gaming Hut we look for ways to design F20 encounters that players don’t want to skip. The Architecture Hut reaches unprecedented heights as beloved Patreon backer Philip Masters seeks the esoteric secrets of the London Eye. The Cinema Hut takes a bash at that laziest of storytelling devices, the dream sequence. Finally well-measured […]

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1:07:04

Episode 473: The Special Ability is It’s a Gun

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/11/26

In the Gaming Hut we take on a classic horror scenario design issue. When the menace stems from ambient weirdness, how do you build fresh ways for the player characters to conclude the story? Beloved Patreon backer Joshua Hillerup wafts salt air into the Culture Hut as he requests a nerdrtoping of Stan Rogers’ classic […]

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1:09:05

[Corrected] Episode 472: Running Away from a Bush

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/11/20

An all-request episode kicks off with a Gaming Hut question from beloved backer Tom Abella, who wants to know if, when playtesting, there is such a thing as too good a GM. Estimable backer Elias Helfer climbs all the way to the summit of the Tradecraft Hut to seek knowledge of Hassan-i Sabbah. In Ask […]

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1:09:10

Episode 472: Running Away from a Bush

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/11/19

An all-request episode kicks off with a Gaming Hut question from beloved backer Tom Abella, who wants to know if, when playtesting, there is such a thing as too good a GM. Estimable backer Elias Helfer climbs all the way to the summit of the Tradecraft Hut to seek knowledge of Hassan-i Sabbah. In Ask […]

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1:08:46

Episode 471: They Called Him Johnny Polymorph

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/11/12

Our Gaming Hut series on the axes of tabletop RPG design concludes, we think and hope, with an opposition separately suggested by beloved Patreon backers Nicola Wilson and Lauberfen: Randomness vs. Choice. Crime Blotter goes old-timey with a profile of con artists Tim Oakes and Larry Summerfield, inventors of the wire game. The Monster Hut […]

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Episode 470: Snailteaser

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/11/05

The Gaming Hut axes of RPG design series turns toward setting for its next opposition, Canon vs. Open. Ken is back from the Chicago Film Festival to report on his findings in the Cinema Hut. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Tristan Zimmerman of the Molten Sulfur Blog talks up his game, Shanty […]

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1:04:56

Episode 469: Real Rumors

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/10/29

Axes keep showing up at the Gaming Hut, and this week we look at the Abstract vs Emotional slider in roleplaying game design. Inspired by the passing of one of its prime exponents, Owen Luder, the Architecture Hut gazes at the brutalist style and its influence on science fiction. Then our resident bibliomane continues to […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: The Card Counter, Secret...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/10/26

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 468: Weird Mushroom Things and a Swirl Over...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/10/22

Our Gaming Hut look at the axes of roleplaying game design continues with the previously teased Ease versus Mastery. In Ask Ken and Robin beloved Patreon backer Joe Webb takes the bait and requests the previously teased adventures of T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves. The Culture Hut looks at the changing moods of SF […]

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1:10:00

Episode 467: Can We Make It Blow Up?

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/10/15

Our Gaming Hut series on axes of roleplaying design continues with Robin’s handling cost opposition, Harmonica versus Violin. In the Architecture Hut, beloved Patreon backer Anders Gabrielsson seeks the truth about Chicago’s Midway Gardens. Robin picks up a foreshadowed Cinema Hut thread on the changing face of international film, from access to style. Finally estimable […]

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