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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 236: Not on the Front Page of the Literature

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2017/04/07

Get ready to argue logistics as the Gaming Hut considers player planning. When is it prelude to play, and when is it play? The Crime Blotter opens one of the most famous cold cases of all: the Black Dahlia murder. Ask Ken and Robin features a query from Patreon backer Padriag Griffin about the plausibility […]

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Episode 235: He-Man’s Woman Hating Civilization

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2017/03/31

In the Gaming Hut Patreon backer Joan Guardiet asks us to make a game set in a warrior woman society work for a party of male PCs. Speaking of requests, in Ask Ken and Robin backer Kalin Kadiev seeks tips on researching Bulgarian occultism. Tell Me More teams up with the Cartography Hut for a […]

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Episode 234: I Barely Killed Anybody

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2017/03/24

We creep into the Gaming Hut at the command of Patreon backer Alexander Permann, who assigns us the mission of envisioning a Night’s Black Agents spinoff featuring the Kingdom of Asturias. In a joint session of the Horror Hut and our Tell Me More feature, we look at that crowdsourced urban legend, Slenderman. Robin vents […]

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Episode 233: It’s Peter Framptons All the Way Down

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2017/03/17

The Gaming Hut goes abstract as we discuss metagaming. At the behest of Patreon backer Vana Stillwater, the Food Hut hosts a look at culinary crimes and scams. Then we paw through the contents of Ken’s Bookshelf, as acquired during his annual raid on the Bay Area. Support the KARTAS Patreon! Snag Ken and Robin […]

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Episode 232: Cat Hamlet Half-Elf Robot

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2017/03/10

The Gaming Hut may seem friendly and bucolic, but this time it’s full of danger, as we riff a cast of conspiratorial small town NPCs. Take your seat and suppress your coughing as the Culture Hut gets classical. Patreon backer Noel Warford asks us for the scoop on such theosophically influenced composers as Henry Cowell, […]

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Episode 231: Please Compensate For Our Brutal...

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2017/03/03

The Hoary Hosts of Patreon backer Elias Helfer command the opening of the Gaming Hut! Therein we shall describe ways to portray weird and magnficent landscapes like those seen in the Doctor Strange movie in roleplaying sessions! Backer Alex Johnston penetrates the vaunted infosec of the Tradecraft Hut to demand our dossier on Nikolai Vavilov […]

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Episode 230: Not the Helsinki Mojitos

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2017/02/24

Know us by our funny voices and exaggerated mannerisms as we meet in the Gaming Hut to discuss what makes a Game Master character easy to play. Grab a mojito and light a fine cigar as Ken supplies a Travel Advisory on his recent jaunt to Cuba. It’s Oscar time, and you know what that […]

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Episode 229: Your Perspective on Trees and Badgers

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2017/02/17

The Gaming Hut stands at the service of Patreon backer Vince Arebalo’s son Dax, who asks for tips on getting comfortable around unfamiliar fellow players. The CIA has finally put its trove of declassified historical documents in a readily accessible online database. In the Tradecraft Hut we find out what Ken searched for first. Backer […]

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Episode 228: I Assume Someone Has Blood-Typed All the...

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2017/02/10

In the Gaming Hut we ask ourselves how far rules and GM influence should go to prevent the players from idiot plotting their own characters. Speaking of gaming the system, esteemed Patreon backer Jeremy Forbing acts as a stalking horse for a certain shadowy figure to convene the Politics Hut. With a mysterious knowledge of […]

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Episode 227: Other Buopoths Do

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2017/02/03

Another all-request episode starts in the Gaming Hut, where Patreon backer Gerald Sear wants us to consider the Mythos implications of the Disney corporation. Then assemble your miniature greenhouses and sail over to the History Hut, where we make up interesting facts about botanist and tea smuggler Robert Fortune at the behest of backer Steve […]

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Episode 226: Yig is More of a Moundsville Ohio Guy

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2017/01/27

A surrealist sandbox and a structured mystery make a date in the Gaming Hut, as Josh Rose asks how to run Dreamhounds of Paris as a GUMSHOE One-2-One setting. Given that the world has turned into a spy novel, and not a particularly believable one at that, maybe it’s time to duck into the Tradecraft […]

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Episode 225: Just Make Up a Bunch of Dwarves

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2017/01/20

Patreon backer Zachary Joyner poses some Gaming Hut questions about improvising a GUMSHOE game. How quickly do you give out clues? How do you maintain pace without leading the players? Though our latest trip to London has faded into the mist of nostalgia, we would be remiss not to paw through the books Ken raided […]

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Episode 224: Without Checking, Because That Spoils...

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2017/01/13

Gather in the Gaming Hut as we ask ourselves when one should take historical license when running or designing a game set in the real past. Spoiler: we also answer ourselves. In the Book Hut, Patreon backers Scott Haring and Kalin team up to demand a rundown on the works of Tim Powers. Sorting one’s […]

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Episode 223: There’s No Blood in a JPEG

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2017/01/06

The contents of this podcast become too horrible to correlate as we slip into the Gaming Hut to answer a question from Patreon backer Laurel Halbany about handling secret mythos knowledge in an age of ever-present information. In Ask Ken and Robin, backer Jeff Kahrs ask us to expound on the contradictions of opting out […]

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Episode 222: Suddenly You’re Eating Mustard Lettuce

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2016/12/23

Finally, after ceding all recent chapeaus to Ken, Robin seizes control of Among My Many Hats to talk about Cthulhu Confidential and the design of the GUMSHOE One-2-One system. Because it’s finally up for pre-order over at the Pelgrane store. While we’re mulling Cthulhu Confidential, Ken and/or Robin Talks To Someone Else has a word […]

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Episode 221: Live at Dragonmeet 2016

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2016/12/16

If it’s December, Ken and Robin must be coming to you live from Dragonmeet, the little London convention that isn’t so little any more. Join us as Ken emerges triumphant from a draw of the nerdtrope deck that definitely, definitely happened exactly just as Robin describes it. Plus red herrings, steak, and more stupid gnomes. […]

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Episode 220: Bear With Us, Everyone Else

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2016/12/09

In the Gaming Hut, urged on by Patreon backer Fred Kiesche, Ken takes us under the hood of his Rex of the Old 97 campaign. What does he do behind that Peter Frampton GM screen, and how does he do it? But stranger requests await us still! Patreon backer Jeromy French convenes a meeting in […]

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Episode 219: Argue With Ceramics

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2016/12/02

Dirk the Dice rolls into the Gaming Hut to ask us how to make sword and sorcery monster encounters exciting. Don’t believe a word you hear in the Conspiracy Corner, as we look at the history and evolution of propaganda. Expand your consciousness in the Cinema Hut, where backers Andrew Collins and Adam Grotjohn invite […]

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Episode 218: This Podcast Still Hates Nazis

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2016/11/25

Patreon backer Michael Kotschi pops a moony question over the Ask Ken and Robin transom, prompting us to look at 70s NASA from a Moon Dust Men perspective. The Politics Hut still has a hangover, but I guess we still have to address that thing that happened. In Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, […]

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Episode 217: Home Movies You Didn’t Take

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2016/11/18

Patreon backer Ethan Cordray rises from the Pacific waves of Ask Ken and Robin to pose a stumper: how to make Cthulhu scary again. Ken is back from an extended sequester in the Cinema Hut to talk about his favorites from the Chicago International Film Festival. Once more we learn How to Write Good, this […]

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