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

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

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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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[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

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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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1:05:43

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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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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Episode 466: Foolish Enough to Get Near Us

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/10/08

Our Gaming Hut series on the axes of RPG design takes a turn as Robin looks at the trade-offs he thinks about while working on games, starting with Simulation vs Emulation. Fun With Science goes deep to contemplate the abundance of mesopelagic fish. The Horror Hut gets connubial at the behest of beloved Patreon backer […]

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Episode 465: Sour Joe

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/10/01

If it’s September, it must be, uh, Gen Con? Ken kicks off with a Travel Advisory on how the in-person side of the event went. Speaking of unusual versions of long running events, Robin opens up the Cinema Hut to provide highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and to make a stunning announcement. […]

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Episode 464: By Fun You Mean Opaque

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/09/24

Our continuing Gaming Hut survey of tabletop RPG design principles tackles Power. That sounds like something we always want. Does it belong at one end of a spectrum, or does it corrupt absolutely? Beloved Patreon backer the Molten Sulfur Blog makes a Tell Me More request that opens up the History Hut to profile Edwardian […]

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Episode 463: The Bubble Wrap of Roleplaying Games

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/09/17

In the Gaming Hut we continue our series on axes of tabletop RPG design with an examination of Resilience and Robustness. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Allen Wilkins, Ripped from the Headlines finds the real truth behind the November incident in which a crashing commuter train was saved by polyester whale tails. In […]

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Episode 462: I Can Turn Him Into a Skink

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/09/10

The Gaming Hut kicks off a series looking at the axes of RPG design, so appropriately enough we start with elegance. In the Architecture Hut beloved Patreon backer Nicola Wilson seeks the truth scoop on the Trylon and Perisphere, noted features of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Fun With Science fields a question from […]

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