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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 189: It Won’t Fix Me But It Will Fix That

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2016/05/06

Patreon backer Kevin J. Maroney gets us started with an Ask Ken and Robin question about other designers’ mechanics we consider to be under-stolen. The Tradecraft Hut takes on a recent story claiming that infamous Nazi military officer Otto Skorzeny ended his career as a Mossad assassin. In the Food Hut we heroically accede to […]

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Episode 188: He Drinks Tables Under the Table

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2016/04/29

In the Gaming Hut, Patreon backer Bill Sundwall wants Ken to mash up two of his projects, The Madness Dossier and Night’s Black Agents, into one. The Business of Gaming looks for the best ways to combat harassment within our community. The Book Hut responds to backer Frank King’s request for a look at the […]

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Episode 187: Honest and Dishonest Graft

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2016/04/22

The Gaming Hut gets organized as we answer Patreon backer Samwise Crider’s question about tracking clues in GUMSHOE and other investigative games. Backer Adam McDonald enters the Politics Hut for the 101 on machine politics—particularly that of Ken’s beloved Chicago. Backer and colleague Hal Mangold grabs his popcorn in the Cinema Hut with his request […]

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Episode 186: You Need Canapes To Have a Secret Society

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2016/04/15

Ask Ken and Robin gets especially educational as Patreon supporter Brent Brown asks us for tips for using RPGs to teach history, home school style. Tradecraft Hut peers into the espionage scene in Brussels. How To Write Good looks at influences and how to incorporate them well. Finally the Consulting Occultist slakes the hankering of […]

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Episode 185: I Don’t Think I Prefer That At All

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2016/04/08

Among My Many Hats is an Egyptian headdress with a distinctly feline aspect, as Ken talks about his installment of Ken Writes About Stuff devoted to Bast. The Gaming Hut looks at ways to write scenarios to present the information about Game Master Characters GMs need to run their games. Thanks to Patreon Patron Jeff […]

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Episode 184: Snorting the Hand of Vecna

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2016/04/01

We start with Ask Ken and Robin, as Patreon supporter Ross Ireland asks us to tell our best crazy game stories. Then it’s off to the History Hut to consider the troubled Presidency of a guy who really couldn’t get a Supreme Court nominee approved, John Tyler. In our inaugural edition of Tell Me More, […]

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Episode 183: Eaten By a Ghost

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2016/03/25

Pull your swords out of your stones and step into the Gaming Hut for a consideration of the Chosen One trope. How to Write Good explores a phenomenon Robin calls Nigeling, when you make one character look good by painting others as rubes. You’ll place great stock in… no, I’m sorry, I can’t. Let’s just […]

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Episode 182: Much Like the Person In It

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2016/03/18

Now that backers of our exciting and handsome Patreon campaign get priority access to pose questions for the show, we have a bunch of great questions in the hopper. So let’s get to four of them in a special celebratory all-request episode. In the Gaming Hut Paul Stefko asks us for tips on running games […]

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Episode 181: Taking Latitudes with Longitude

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2016/03/11

In this special theme episode, we start in the uncharted waters of the Cartography Hut, to look at the struggle to accurately measure longitude at sea, and its underdog hero, clockmaker John Harrison. We shift to the Gaming Hut to ask ourselves how to introduce navigational uncertainty into magic-rich F20 worlds. Then the Consulting Occultist […]

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Episode 180: Nordic Tamborine Cult

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2016/03/04

Sneak up on us very carefully as Ask Ken and Robin responds to a Josh Kroger question regarding stealth systems in RPGs. Recent events force us to reconsider past Politics Hut pronouncements as, with increasing trepidation, we ask once more, is Donald Trump America’s Rob Ford? In the Mythology Hut we pry under the ecclesiastical […]

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Episode 179: Art Film with Explosions

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2016/02/26

Let’s schmooze a while in the Gaming Hut as we spitball a game based on social experience points. Get in touch with your inner cave dweller as the Conspiracy Corner checks out Neanderthal conspiracy theories, most notably those of painter and sculptor Stanislav Szukalski. Finally it’s that time of year again: in a bumper segment […]

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Special Minisode: Our Patreon Launches

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2016/02/25

Long have we teased it! Now it’s finally here, for your keeping-the-show-alive convenience: our Patreon campaign. In this special mini-episode we talk the whys, the wherefores, and the long-coveted extra stuff we can do if we hit particular milestones. Jump on board to make show notes, transcripts and the new Ken and Robin Consume Media […]

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Episode 178: Whoops! Democracy!

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2016/02/19

There’s a rat looking at us and a hawk flying overhead as Ask Ken and Robin fields a Michael Shreeves question on making familiars narratively satisfying. Our lead time prevents the Politics Hut from engaging in prognostication, so instead we step back to look at ways of understanding this most chaotic and suspenseful of US […]

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Episode 177: You’ve Got Your Chainsaw Working

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2016/02/12

Can you make it through the terrors of Ask Ken and Robin, when Sean Maclean asks us how to run survival horror? If so, the Tradecraft Hut awaits, where we deliver our promised full segment on legendary M15 counterintelligence honcho Maxwell Knight. Go down to the basement and get made small as Horror Hut zooms […]

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Episode 176: Shut Up, Fungus

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2016/02/05

Get your chlorophyll on as we enter a vine-choked version of the Gaming Hut to riff an alien species that feeds via photosynthesis. Ken gets you started on your collection of books about maps in a bibliographic Cartography Hut. It’s been a while since Ask Ken and Robin had a lightning round, so let’s have […]

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Episode 175: And Then Everyone Gets Indicted

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2016/01/29

Oh, the humanity! How do we characterize being a human in F20 games and settings? Answers lie inside the Gaming Hut. You think the media is bad today. Back during Chicago’s circulation wars you could get shot for reading the wrong paper on the subway. Elucidation waits in a hard-to-target corner of the History Hut. […]

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Episode 174: Metaphor Drift! Metaphor Drift!

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2016/01/22

Roll the dice with us as Among My Many Hats finds Ken headed to Las Vegas 68. Grant our dramatic petition while How To Write Good breaks down dramatic scene construction. Join us for a plate of tamarind-infused noodles as the Food Hut looks at the politics of pad thai. Finally, narrowly avoid drowning not […]

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Episode 173: The Unknown Quadruped

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2016/01/15

In the Gaming Hut we rise to popular new demand to riff a whole bunch of scenario entry-points to get you started with a Dracula Dossier campaign. As teased last episode, the History Hut looks at anatomical tables, as seen in our December visit to London’s Royal College of Physicians. Continuing the London weirdness, the […]

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Episode 172: #notAllAstrologers

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2016/01/08

While in London in December, the Consulting Occultist got a sneak peek at key items of John Dee’s book collection. Join us in previewing the upcoming exhibit Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee, which runs Jan 18-July 29 at the Royal College of Physicians. Then we turn to the […]

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Episode 171: Live from Dragonmeet 2015

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2015/12/18

Once again we end a year of talking about stuff with a live episode from Dragonmeet in London. Join us as we discuss a time war involving Isaac Newton and the Crusades, GUMSHOE, Feng Shui, highly detailed games, hypothetical gaming-inspired cookbooks, what we’re afraid of now, and making gnomes interesting. Enjoy your holidays, and join […]

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