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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 208: Live from Gen Con 2016

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2016/09/16

Robin is away at the Toronto International Film festival, and longtime listeners know what that means: it’s time to cover his absence from the podcast mic to drop the live episode we released at Gen Con. Join us for another glorious nerdtrope, a big hand for all our Patreon backers, and all the questions a […]

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Episode 207: It’s Pronounced “Executive”

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2016/09/09

Our 207th installment starts on a tripartite note as Patreon backer Andrew Young pops his head into the Gaming Hut to ask about the pertinence of three-act structure in roleplaying scenarios. Speaking of Andrews, the Tradecraft Hut opens the case file on East German spymaster Markus Wolf, at the behest of backer Andrew Collins. In […]

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Episode 206: They Had Hyenas In Inventory

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2016/09/02

Rules get hybridized in the Gaming Hut, at the behest of Patreon backer Jason Carter, who wants to fuse GUMSHOE’s investigative rules with the combat systems of other games, say for example Feng Shui. The man who shot Billy the Kid was himself killed in a dispute over goats. Coincidence? The History Hut looks at […]

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Episode 205: The Complaining Hut

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2016/08/26

Get your dice and character sheets together and head on into the Gaming Hut as we field Patreon backer Gnoll Warford’s question about preparing as a first-time convention GM. In How To Write Good, we slake patron Corey Pierno’s desire to know our writing and researching routines. When Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, […]

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Episode 204: Gen Con 2016

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2016/08/19

Voices weary and graveled, but with spirits lifted by ENnies Gold and Silver, Ken and Robin return from Gen Con to regale you with this year’s round-up of the Best Four Days in Gaming. As is our annual wont we throw separate segments to the wind to encompass all the Gaming Hut goodness. Sub-headings include […]

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Episode 203: Pull the Damn Trigger You Coward!

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2016/08/12

In a special live from our hotel room episode, we inflate a portable Gaming Hut to field a question from Frent about catastrophe pile-ups in popular continuities. The Tradecraft Hut looks at the implications of Russian intelligence’s hack of the Democratic National Committee emails. (See The Crusader, by Paul Kengor, pp. 317-320 for the full […]

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Episode 202: While We’re On the Surface of the...

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2016/08/05

Another all-Patreon backer request episode kicks off in the Gaming Hut as Tom Abella asks what Brexit will do to spycraft in our world and that of Night’s Black Agents. In The Business of Gaming Wesley Marshal asks about the ethics of working on an IP you don’t care for. Karl Schmidt wants the Consulting […]

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Episode 201: You Don’t Need to Drag Pokemon Into It

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2016/07/29

Pokemon fever is back and more feverish than ever. As Pokemon Go breaks loose of the Gaming Hut, forcing players onto the actual streets, is there anything we can riff about it that reality hasn’t already delivered? Ken watched every Dracula flick he could get his hands on, and now the result of that effort, […]

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Episode 200: Lightning Round 2016

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2016/07/22

Let the bells ring out and the banners fly! We can remember starting this occasionally humble podcast like it was yesterday, but here we are with our 200th episode. And you know what that means: lightning round questions. This time, served up primarily by our Patreon backers. Among the many topics: underused Lovecraft, why conversion […]

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Episode 199: Not That That’s What Time Travelers Say

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2016/07/15

In Ask Ken and Robin, Patreon backer Conrad Kinch asks what the cruel empire of Tsan-Chan might be up to in 5000 AD. The answer might surprise him! Now that you’ve worked your way through the filmography we provided in our Westerns 101 segment, the Cinema Hut rides back to the corral to pick some […]

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Episode 198: Stab Them in the Peninsula

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2016/07/08

Matters come to a head in the Gaming Hut, where we talk about writing scenario climaxes. In Ask Ken and Robin, Patreon backer Eric Jeppesen asks Ken and Robin to help weave a campaign around 16th century English-Ottoman relations and the figure of Edward Barton. Enterprising filmmakers tasked a deep learning neural net to write […]

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Episode 197: Obviously She Fought Radium Ghosts

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2016/07/01

Ever-prolific Ken dons a knit cap like all the youngsters wear to bring us the scoop on Bubblegumshoe in Among My Many Hats. In the Gaming Hut, we satisfy Patreon backer Sean McAuliff’s request for advice on playing historical figures. Finally the sound of bookseller cash registers ringing in New England tell us that it’s […]

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Episode 196: Conspicuously Non-Assassinated

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2016/06/24

In Ask Ken and Robin, Patreon backer Philip asks for ways to incorporate the beat cycle from Robin’s book Hamlet’s Hit Points into game systems that don’t already support it. The Tradecraft Hut peers into the dossier of Yakov Blumkin, the so-called Soviet James Bond. We gather in the Gaming Hut to wonder why breaking […]

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Episode 195: All Its Guns in Norman Rockwell

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2016/06/17

Patreon backer Trung Bui asks us to assemble in the Gaming Hut to tell him who the murderer is, and also to discuss the challenges of investigative scenario construction. The gore runs thick but the design sense runs high as the Cinema Hut answers a Marc Kevin Hall request for an introduction to Italian horror […]

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Episode 194: Knocking Off Early For Gin and Lemonade

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2016/06/10

The Gaming Hut becomes a boat we might just die in as Patreon backer Luke Wassink asks us to make environmental obstacles suspenseful and compelling. In Among My Many Hats, Ken tells us about his new Dark Osprey book, The Cthulhu Wars: the United States’ Battle Against the Mythos. Hey, who covered the floor of […]

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Episode 193: Bonaparte Eyes

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2016/06/03

In Ask Ken and Robin, Patreon backer Andrew Jones asks about working with Greg Stafford. The History Hut looks at the post-WWI occupation of Istanbul, as requested by Alexander Perman. How to Write Good rips the lid off of our least favorite fake stock moments in fiction. Finally the Conspiracy Corner finds Timothy Coram asking […]

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Episode 192: Emulating a Genre That Doesn’t Exist

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2016/05/27

In the Gaming Hut we ponder a meta-terminology games designers might use to describe the purpose and function of the various sub-systems they build into roleplaying rules sets. Now that Donald Trump has sewn up the Republican nomination, we head into the Politics Hut to ask Ken what happened to his party, and whether he […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Ghost Transit, Noir...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2016/05/24

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 191: In Case I Trip Over a Sand Dune

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2016/05/20

Patreon supporter Tim Brandis kicks us off with an Ask Ken and Robin question about which of our core design beliefs might have evolved over time. In the Tradecraft Hut we reach way back to that most classic of espionage scandals, the Dreyfus Affair. The Cinema Hut finds us in Stetsons and spurs for an […]

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Episode 190: Boy Meets Manifestation

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2016/05/13

Patreon backer Graham Wills starts us off in the Gaming Hut by asking how to balance conspiratorial genres, like the spy thriller, with group trust. Among My Many Hats finds Ken laying down some wisdom—some Starry Wisdom, that is. In the Horror Hut, Patreon supporter Cardboard Sandwich asks us how to adapt the ghostly works […]

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