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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 447: The Bert-Adjacent Ugly Wheels of Commerce

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/05/28

We start out in the Gaming Hut to tell your GM that the shocking premise subversion they have in mind isn’t as fun or cool as they might think. A segment that had to hibernate during the pandemic is back! In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to colleague Jeff Tidball about […]

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Episode 446: Well Also H. R. Giger

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/05/21

An all-request episode kicks off in the Gaming Hut with beloved Patreon backer Chris Camfield’s request to follow up on a carelessly dropped side reference about realist F2O. Esteemed Patreon backer Chris Melkus meets us in the Archaeology Hut to ask about a recent story of tomb robbing in China’s Shaanxi province, in which the […]

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Episode 445: The Cavern of Boring

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/05/14

In the Gaming Hut we provide tips enabling you to convince your fellow players to go along with your plans. Beloved Patreon backer Jurie Horneman asks us to convene a Book Hut to talk about Robert Anton Wilson. In Ask Ken and Robin, estimable Patreon backer Gabriel Rossman looks for a fictionalized treatment of the […]

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Episode 444: Axe Democracy

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/05/07

Prepare to reverse polarity as the Gaming Hut looks at scenarios that revolve around science mysteries. Beloved Patreon backer Tennant Reed asks us to unfurl the Crime Blotter for the story of penal colony escapee and confessed cannibal Alexander Pearce. In Ask Ken and Robin, estimable Patreon backer Kaijuthulu seeks tips on running a Mutant […]

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Episode 443: Ruined by Farm Children

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/04/30

In the Gaming Hut, we help you, the player, bring your character’s narrative hook, in this case a Freaking Weird Moment for The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, into play. As befits this weird year, the Cinema Hut finally gets around to our Top Ten Films of 2020, right in time for you to have already […]

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Episode 442: Mad at Unicorns

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/04/23

Bravely we enter the Gaming Hut, at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Scott Wachter, to roast the cockatrice and other weaksauce monsters. The History Hut runs aground as estimable Patreon backer Stephen Dosman asks how the Yellow Fleet, marooned in the Suez Canal after the Six Day War, might fit into a Fall of […]

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Episode 441: Cheese Made of Cheese

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/04/16

In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Joe Webb asks for a Fall of DELTA GREEN / Night’s Black Agents crossover inspired by a Cambodian pop song. (After we recorded this segment Ken remembered that Tod Browning’s Dracula uses the Swan Lake theme as its title music, but if he had done that in advance […]

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Episode 440: All the Van Helsings

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/04/09

In the Gaming Hut the beloved Patreon backer known as Ed, Speaker in Digressions, asks us to envision a game that that arcs from a state of nature to civil society. The Tradecraft Hut steams open the career of Alexandrine, Countess of Taxis, and Postmistress of the Holy Roman Empire. The ongoing Cinema Hut Horror […]

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Episode 439: Untainted By Dockyard Activities

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/04/02

Would we rather fight a turnip-headed wyvern, or an enormous Jenny Haniver? The answer awaits in the T-Shirt Justification Hut. In Ask Ken and Robin, mighty-thewed Patreon backer Mike Mearls asks for sources to run an F20 game in Ancient Sumer. The Cinema Hut finally gets with the present century as the horror essential series […]

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Episode 438: Anyone Can Bilocate

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/03/26

Beloved Patreon backer Jonathan Keim asks us to take care of the Gaming Hut for the winter, during which time we will contemplate making place as big a part of a game session as the Overlook Hotel is part of The Shining. In the Food Hut Ken takes us to almost Nebraska and the spiral […]

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Episode 437: Your Chartreuse Leotard

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/03/19

Pick up that flashlight and head down into the basement as the Gaming Hut looks at building moments that take advantage of a single protagonist for one-player games like GUMSHOE One-2-One. The History Hut returns to the wild streets of Ken’s signature city as beloved Patreon backer Neal Dalton seeks the story of Count Dante […]

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Episode 436: Needs to Have a Lith

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/03/12

In the Gaming Hut we parse the differences between crunch and simulation, as we examine the yen for complexity and the various related but separate impulses behind it. At the behest of beloved Patreon backers Will Ferguson and Felicity Pyatt, the Crime Blotter heads to 1827 Suffolk to open the case files of the notorious […]

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Episode 435: Unreliable Satanists

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/03/05

Sidle up to the Gaming Hut as we provide tips on bringing your player characters into historical events. In Ask Ken and Robin, beloved Patreon backer Dennis Harlow asks us to add detail and credibility to something Anton LaVey made up. Specifically that King in Yellow author Robert W. Chambers discovered the actual play while […]

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Episode 434: Fight the Mimes

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/02/26

Beloved Patreon backer Michael Curtis dons a Nehru jacket and John Lennon glasses to duck into the Gaming Hut for tips on running occult investigation in Swingin’ London. In part 9 of the Cinema Hut Horror Essentials series, we reach the late 70s, and the rise of the horror auteurs. Ripped from the Headlines gives […]

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Episode 433: Leave Out a Syllable For Elijah

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/02/19

The Gaming Hut nestles next to an apothecary and a retailer of used armor pieces as we suggest techniques to populate buildings for a city sourcebook. Fright film enters the psychic hangover of the Watergate era in the latest installment of the Cinema Hut’s horror essentials series. You wouldn’t think that familiarity with paranormal lore […]

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Episode 432: Smart Shark Money

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/02/12

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Jacob Ansari seeks tips on introducing complex settings to the players. Part 8 of our Cinema Hut horror essentials series sees the genre take an apocalyptic turn amid the turmoil of the late 60s and early 70s. Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes arise from following bad instructions. […]

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Episode 431: Working for Bigfoot

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/02/05

Keep that Abingdon Island giant tortoise under a blanket as beloved Patreon backer Kevin L. Nault beckons us into the Gaming Hut to work animal trafficking into RPG scenarios. Part 6 of our Cinema Hut horror essentials series continues the 60s gothic resurgence, and we assure you this segment wouldn’t hurt a fly. Plangent notes […]

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Episode 430: Look What’s Happened to Consensus Reality

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/01/29

Classic occult conspiracy meets eldritch espionage when beloved Patreon backer Daniel Fidelman pokes his head into the Gaming Hut, asking how to incorporate Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier’s The Morning of the Magicians into THE FALL OF DELTA GREEN. Our Cinema Hut Horror Essentials series hits a turning point in screen shock history, as the […]

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Episode 429: It Will Make a Lovely Allegory

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/01/22

In a co-production between the Mythology Hut and the T-Shirt Justification Hut, a particularly mournful example of the species inspires us to find ways to put the phoenix in your games. Then put the phoenix on yourself, or around your morning coffee, by saying Oh No, Not This Again at the Ken and Robin merch […]

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Episode 428: Only a Modernist Horse

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2021/01/15

In the Gaming Hut we return to that perennial, not at all distracting topic of the red herring, as beloved Patreon backer Kevin Greenlee asks how to work player-generated herrings into the drama. Then we take Interstate 71 to the Architecture Hut, where esteemed Patreon backer Tom Abella wants to know what the deal is […]

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