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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 170: Deprived of Moss

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2015/12/11

What should you look for when revising a scenario? The Gaming Hut holds the answers. Cinematic technique, legacy and mortality all come out to play in the darkened space of the Cinema Hut as we delve into Robin’s powerful response to the documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut. Then Ken and Robin Recycle Audio, specifically more clips from Robin’s […]

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Episode 169: If You Dibs an Entire Hemisphere

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2015/12/04

We start amid the familiar shag carpet of the Gaming Hut to look at the question of making the mechanics serve the story and not the other way around. The History Hut delves into the best-named military conflict ever, the War of Jenkins’ Ear. In the Horror Hut we avoid gazing into mirrors while discussing […]

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[REPOST] Episode 168: Real Made-Up History

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2015/11/27

The New York Public Library online map collection provides a feast of gameable treasures. We gather in the Cartography Hut to pick our favorites and riff on ways to put them to use. Ken’s first map, of Brasov, appears here. Robin’s map, to the residences of Ebenezer Ingalsbie and T. R. Wolcott, is here. Ken’s […]

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Episode 168: Real Made-Up History

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2015/11/27

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Episode 167: Fred Williamson Syndrome

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2015/11/20

We kick off with Ask Ken and Robin, as Reinier Dobbelmann question about power-gaming, relevant to six-year olds literal and metaphorical. Smell the flavor volatiles as Food Hut looks at the science of taste. Referenced in this segment: Barb Stuckey’s Taste: Surprising Stories and Science About Why Food Tastes Good. In the Horror Hut we […]

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Episode 166: No Ice Cream Trucks Anywhere

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2015/11/13

We predicted that Ask Ken and Robin would feature a Manfred Gabriel question about incorporating prophecy into roleplaying sessions, and we were right! Dracula tried to thwart him, but Ken still managed to check out some titles at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival, and joins us in the Cinema Hut to talk about the […]

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Episode 165: If You Violate a Ghost’s Trade Policy

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2015/11/06

When Deep Ones suddenly display their powers of teleportation, are they being uncool? Step into the Gaming Hut for a look at situations where you want to keep the abilities of your monsters consistent. In Ask Ken and Robin @marcaddress gets us to riff a society where corpse reanimation for heavy lifting and other tasks […]

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Episode 164: Another Excuse To Drink In the Street

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2015/10/30

We kick off an episode devoted to Halloween in the Mythology Hut, where we survey the holiday’s history, mutations over time, and cultural diffusion. Ken suspects that 1933’s so-called Black Halloween might be entirely apocryphal, but even so we head for the Gaming Hut to riff an outline for a Trail of Cthulhu scenario in […]

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Episode 163: Building Things Out of Zebras

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2015/10/23

Find the enigma within the enigma as the Gaming Hut hosts a look at existential mysteries. In Ask Ken and Robin we find the key to a Gerald Sears question about Parisian official’s bid to remove the love locks from the Pont des Arts bridge. How to Write Good serves up tips on character names. […]

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Episode 162: Of the Massachusetts Necrotaurs

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2015/10/16

The Gaming Hut turns over the hourglass as we discuss villain clocks. Ken issues a Travel Advisory on the latest installment of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival. In Ask Ken and Robin we field a Pete Darley question about our adherence to canon in published scenario. And in a pulse-pounding, pumice-raining edition of Ken’s […]

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Episode 161: The Horse Had It Coming

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2015/10/09

The Gaming Hut features an ill-advised open bar as we mull campaigns in which player characters have to be married. Ask Ken and Robin tackles a question posed to us by approximately 75% of listeners: hey, what about that Nazi Gold train? Vegetables return to the Food Hut, demanding to know how we will roast […]

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Episode 160: Or His Solid Ghost

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2015/10/02

The Cinema Hut heralds the androids, fish men and yakuza vampires coming to a movie consumption venue near you as Robin regales you with the hottest tips from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Consult his full list here. It was the Gaming Hut, he thought, where the topic of internal monologue in roleplaying would […]

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Episode 159: I Was a 10 Year Old Nihilist

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2015/09/25

The Gaming Hut finds us in an under-the-hood mood as we turn over Robin’s assertion that a full adventure written as early in the process as possible can illuminate your RPG game design process. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio presents our final trove of treasures from the Gen Con investigative panel, with a series of […]

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Episode 158: Englishman is Not Actually Valued For...

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2015/09/18

Our recording chambers may be hot but our subject matter gets cold, cold, cold, as Among My Many Hats takes a look at the Wendigo. In How To Write Good, the dialogue turns to dialogue tags, he said, informatively. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio continues to pillage the very best treasures of the investigative roleplaying […]

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Episode 157: I Have Points in Both, Simon

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2015/09/11

A skepticism of all things pseudopod suffuses the question Thomas Deeny poses in Ask Ken and Robin. “Why Cthulhu? By that, I mean, why do gamers love Cthulhu games? Boardgames, RPGs — it seems as if you slap Cthulhu on the game, it just sells. What is the draw?” Providence proved Providential indeed for our […]

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Episode 156: Crazily Pork-Bellied

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2015/09/04

In the dog days before Labor Day, Ask Ken and Robin happily accepts a softball from Cam Banks (a ringer name if ever we heard one.) “Why is “fantasy” supposedly a genre in RPGs but people mostly mean “F20 fantasy”? Why is there no equivalent in science fiction RPGs?” Ken issues a Travel Advisory for […]

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Episode 155: Semi-Facing Into the Abyss

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2015/08/28

Genetic enhancements meet tradecraft as Among My Many Hats looks under the hood of Ken’s new Mutant City Blues campaign frame, “Mutant City Spies.” The Food Hut returns in what might be the first of an sweeping two-part series as we find ways to trick vegetables into being delicious. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio from […]

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Episode 154: Orange and Tufty From the Primordial Swamp

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2015/08/21

The featured headgear in Among My Many Hats is of a knitted variety as Robin talks about Ghosts in the Black, the Firefly campaign book he contributed to, and just what his credited role as story designer entails. Wistful nostalgia for the antics of a certain former Toronto mayor wafts through the Politics Hut like […]

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Episode 153: Gen Con 2015 in Review

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2015/08/14

As the action opens in the Gaming Hut, we find Ken and Robin just one day back from Gen Con, punchy but unbowed. Hear them talk Diana Jones Awards, the new regime at Chaosium, and the great D&D resurgence. Make future spending plans as they recount such Pelgrane-rich announcements as The Fall of Delta Green, […]

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Episode 152: X-Acto Athame

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2015/08/07

Buckle up your extra special rapier for a jaunt into the Gaming Hut to consider the connection between gear and status. Take extra reindeer with you, for your predecessor lost all of his when he entered the far confines of the Cartography Hut to talk Soviet map-making. From hominids and their tapir pals to the […]

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