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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 216: Some Old Schlubby Wine God

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2016/11/11

This week the Gaming Hut holds a special surprise: it’s not just a segment, but a free game in and of itself, as Robin teaches you how to run Death Spiral. In Ask Ken and Robin, Reiner Dobbelman asks us about mythic-level play. Then we again hear the protesting groans of Ken’s Bookshelf as we […]

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Episode 215: Not an Impaleologist

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2016/11/04

Among My Many Hats blows the lid off of Ken’s upcoming Kickstarter for a revised, revamped, and reanimated Tour de Lovecraft: the Tales. Are the results of this podcast rigged? Find out as the History Hut looks at the history of vote-rigging in America. When Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, sometimes that someone […]

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Episode 214: The Puppet Below

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2016/10/28

The Gaming Hut looks at top temporal locations for TimeWatch scenarios. Pelgrane Press celebrates our segment by offering you, the listener, a voucher code to order from its online store. Plunk in TIMEWATCH at the voucher prompt for 10% off any TimeWatch product. In keeping with the chronological confusion of TimeWatch, the offer is good […]

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Episode 213: I Would Have Been On the Other Side of That

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2016/10/21

A fork in the road leads to either the Gaming Hut, or the Gaming Hut, as we look at those times when giving players choice and control in a scenario leads to a less interesting outcome. The History Hut has us looking at the career of oil magnate E.L. Doheny, key figure in the Teapot […]

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Episode 212: I Was Scheduled For One Anyway

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2016/10/14

We kick off another episode inspired entirely by Patreon backer requests with John Corey, who asks Ken to expand on real history as the best setting for gaming and the challenges of reskinning it, thus inviting another round of That Thing I Always Say. The enigmatic asker known only as Bryan ushers into the Horror […]

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Episode 211: It’s Called Salvage

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2016/10/07

Unfurl your flags as we gather in the Gaming Hut to envision an F20 game in which nationalities take the place of alignments. In Ask Ken and Robin, Patreon backer Jason Breti asks us to talk about Microscope. How to Write Good looks at things that happen in real life that writers have to work […]

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Episode 210: Tell Jimbo That You’ve Moved House

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2016/09/30

Much tabletop roleplaying advice, ours included, helps GMs to keep players entertained. But what about the other way around? Thanks to Patreon backer Jesse Morgan, we head into the Gaming Hut to look at ways to keep your GM motivated. Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else covers not one but two areas of expertise, […]

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Episode 209: There is Mooching To Be Done

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2016/09/23

Take a reality check before you dare to enter the Gaming Hut, as we answer Patreon backer Bryan’s request to devise a campaign based on flawed perceptions. Time for another intro course in the Cinema Hut as Ken and Robin give your their film noir 101. Coriander meets pate as the Food Hut investigates the […]

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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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