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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 327: Good Luck Getting Any Wood

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2019/01/18

In the Gaming Hut we examine the desire to play less than competent characters. The History Hut takes us back to the 7th century BC and the reign of Assyrian super-king Ashurbanipal. In How to Write Good we look at the connection between character sympathy and emotional rhythm. Finally we sidle into the Eliptony Hut, […]

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Episode 326: Credulous Ghost-Hunting Dupe

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2019/01/11

Struggle to stay one step ahead of the authorities as the Gaming Hut finds ways to do the classic trope of the protagonist framed for a crime in a roleplaying scenario. The Horror Hut enters an old-timey uncanny valley as we look at the wax museum sub-genre. In Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, […]

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Episode 325: NIMBY Horror

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2019/01/04

We kick off 2019 with an all-request episode, starting with Patreon backer Bryan Gustafson, who enters the Gaming Hut to ask us how to use the tiny houses movement in a Cthulhu Confidential scenario. In the Command Hut, backer Tom Abella seeks the scoop on the series of WWII commando and bombing raids against a […]

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Episode 324: Live from Dragonmeet

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/12/21

Once again we close out the year with an episode recorded in front of a live audience at Dragonmeet in Hammersmith, London. Topics include the relationship between Queen Elizabeth and the Peloponnesian War, Cthulhoid Teletubbies, giant cows, modes of Yellow King RPG Game Mastering, and of course, sausages. We’ll be back with our first episode […]

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Episode 323: They Pecked the Anglo Saxons

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2018/12/14

Jet-lagged and full of pudding, we return from our latest trip to Dragonmeet to issue a Travel Advisory about the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms exhibit at the British Library. In the Gaming Hut we pursue a request from Patreon backer Mikey Hamm to talk about chase rules. If we were just in London, our hero must […]

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Holy Forking Shirtballs Ken and Robin are Consuming...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/12/11

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 322: The Cinnabon of the 17th Century

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/12/07

Not to spoil anything, but we open in the Gaming Hut as Patreon backer V Weather asks us what to do when it turns out you’ve already read the adventure your GM is running. In How To Write Good, we examine the uses and abuses of ambiguity in RPG setting materials. Then it’s off to […]

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Episode 321: Red Dawn Times

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2018/11/30

Get out your space calculators as we meet in the Gaming Hut to entertain a request from Patreon backer Robert Dean, who wants to hear more about the time Ken ran Traveller for accountants. In the History Hut we fulfill the desire of backer Joe Littrell to learn the real reason behind Churchill’s wartime initiative […]

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Episode 320: Ghost Rationing Policy

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/11/23

This podcast never wastes your time, but what if you, as a GM, have to fill some space in your session? The Gaming Hut looks at ways to vamp for time. In the drafty confines of the Architecture Hut, Patreon backer Darren Hennessy wants to know about Houska Castle in the Czech Republic, known […]

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Episode 319: Eventually You Run Out of Zigs

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/11/16

Under the black stars of Carcosa, we celebrate the impending publication of Robin’s The Yellow King Roleplaying Game and the manuscript completion of Ken’s The King in Yellow Annotated Edition with an all-Pallid Mask edition of our decadent podcast. In Among My Many Hats, Ken shares what he’s learned about Chambers and the Hyades while working on […]

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Episode 318: Bootlegger Reverse

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/11/09

We open in the Gaming Hut, or is all part of an elaborate trick, as Patreon backer Sean asks how to pull switcheroos on players who don’t like being fooled. Ken meets us in the Cinema Hut to reveal the filmic goodies he saw at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival. In Ask Ken […]

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Episode 317: To Be Sure, the Romans

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/11/02

Join us in the Gaming Hut to assist Patreon backer Dustyn Mincey with his difficulty in sticking with a single game, when there are so many awesome games in the world. Then Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, specifically designer extraordinaire Steve Kenson. Finally it’s again time to vicariously caress the covers of […]

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Episode 316: Remembering Greg Stafford

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2018/10/26

Join us for an elegaic Gaming Hut as we tackle but a single topic: the life and work of our friend and inspiration, the grand shaman of gaming, Greg Stafford (1948-2018.) Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Snag Ken […]

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Episode 315: Eloi au Vin

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/10/19

In the Gaming Hut we assist Patreon backer Jean-Francois Paradis in creating a campaign where the PCs’ homeland is invaded by a technologically superior rival. Stay far from manhole covers and sewer grates as the Horror Hut looks at CHUDs and troglodytes. Then Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, specifically gaming’s cartoonist laureate, […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Ken Does the Chicago...

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2018/10/16

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Episode 314: Preamble Snipper

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/10/12

Another all-request episode kicks off in the Gaming Hut as Patreon backer Gene Ha asks what F20 evil deities get out of all the dungeons they create and manage. In the Cartography Hut we look into trap streets and parch marks, at the behest of backer Jurie Hornemann. Ask Ken and Robin gives backer […]

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Episode 313: All the Hitting in the World

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/10/05

The Cinema Hut bursts with upcoming delights as Robin returns from his annual jaunt to Toronto International Film Festival to provide highlights on a banner year. In the Gaming Hut we tackle a perennial problem: how do you make sure the talky PC gets to talk to the talky NPC before the killy PC […]

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Episode 312: Short Inspirational Napping Pieces

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/09/28

Advice for players kicks us off in the Gaming Hut, as we suggest ways to react when the GM provides you with a magic gun. Then in a segment we persist in calling How To Write Good, rather than Robin Yells Into the Wind, we show you how to tag jokes on the Internet. Ken […]

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Episode 311: Live from Gen Con 2018

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/09/21

Let’s summon the spirit of summer one last time by hearkening back to a balmy Indianapolis Friday, when Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff live from the surprising new confines of the Lucas Oil stadium at Gen Con. Come for the Nerdtrope cards, come for the incisive questions from our ever-alert audience. Want to […]

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Episode 310: The Social Media Impact of Ulthar

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2018/09/14

The Gaming Hut makes room for our collection of crystal balls as Patreon backer Rob Towell asks for hints on GMing prophecies and divinations. The Crime Blotter looks at a rash of highly professional heists targeting relics looted from the Old Summer Palace and held in European museums. Patreon backer Polydamas asks us to […]

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