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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 119: Sex Argentina

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2014/12/12

In Ask Ken and Robin, we answer an Ian Porell question about how much writing should go into a GUMSHOE NPC, and move on from there to supply other tips on creating supporting players for investigative games. From there we take a short hop to the Gaming Hut to look at post-mortems and other ways […]

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Episode 118: There’s Nothing In It For Owls

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2014/12/05

In Ask Ken and Robin, Jeff Jones seeks advice on running an anti-Nazi campaign set in 30s America. We oblige in both pulp and occult genre modes. Become conscious of an enticing aroma in the Gaming Hut as we look at creature senses. The Consulting Occultist continues his Parisian sojourn with an examination of uxurious […]

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Episode 117: Covered in Cats and Croissant Crumbs

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2014/11/28

In Ask Ken and Robin, Stephanie asks Ken and Robin to find gaming ideas in the disappearance, and much later resurfacing, of Henry IV’s long-dead head. The Gaming Hut has us looking at moments where player choice conflicts with character believability. Back to matters Gallic, the Consulting Occultist details the life, thought, and possible Dreamlands […]

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Episode 116: Okay, I’ll Go Get Your Leg

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2014/11/21

The Tradecraft Hut takes an unusual lead slot as Ken answers an FMGuru request for the tale of WWII Soviet spy Richard Sorge. Horatio stands to our right and Laertes to our right as the Gaming Hut contemplates the use of supporting characters as foils. Blasting his trumpet for Dreamhounds of Paris, the Consulting Occultist […]

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Episode 115: Anopheles Mosquito, Stagnant Pond

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2014/11/14

The hats in Among My Many Hats are bowlers, and green apples obscure our faces, because we’re talking about Dreamhounds of Paris, now available for preorder, and its companion volume, The Book of Ants. In the Food Hut we answer a Ryan Macklin request to talk about herbs. Which delicious plant will we name as […]

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Episode 114: Don’t Read Books

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2014/11/07

Gallop into the Gaming Hut as we discuss a term from documentary filmmaking, chasing story, and how it might relate to roleplaying games. Take a seat in the Cinema Hut as Ken discusses his top picks from the 2014 Chicago International Film Festival. Begin at the beginning as How to Write Good looks at constructing […]

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Episode 113: And the Heads of a Whole Bunch of People

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2014/10/31

In the Gaming Hut we consider the dividing line between fun character customization and tiresome homework, and whether it’s moving lately. Still in a Draculanean mood, Ken enters the Book Hut for a vantage on the career of Bram Stoker. We rev up the Recommendation Engine for its sophomore run to talk about a movie, […]

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Episode 112: Someone Will Break Out Into Recipes

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2014/10/24

In the Gaming Hut we look at ways to add nuance to your setting’s faiths by considering the split between official and popular religion. Ken spills blood-red beans on the coming Dracula Dossier Kickstarter in Among My Many Hats. The Food Hut takes on a bookish sheen as we recommend our favorite food writing. Finally, […]

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Episode 111: A Rat Eats It and It Explodes

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2014/10/17

We kick off with a Gaming Hut riffed adventure premise, as heavily armed lords come from miles around to claim their share of a holy man’s ashes. How to Write Good stacks its deck in favor of the protagonists to show you how to avoid Mary Sue syndrome. Ask Ken and Robin leaves Robin as […]

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Episode 110: Eat My Orange Slices, Peons!

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2014/10/10

In the Gaming Hut Robin asks Ken to resolve Robin’s ambivalence toward creativity rewards. The Politics Hut puts one of Ken’s rules distinctions to real life use as we contemplate Stability, Sanity, and ISIL. Another lightning round flashes its electrical mayhem in Ask Ken and Robin. Finally Chris Huth prompts Ken’s Time Machine to journey […]

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Episode 109: Put a Pointy Wizard Hat On It

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2014/10/03

Ask Ken and Robin starts us in a murderous frame of mind as Dreaming Johnny wonders about settings and play styles for games where you play assassins. In The Business of Gaming we helpfully collate all of our advice on breaking into game design as a career in one handy segment. How to Write Good […]

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Episode 108: Too Many Cyber-Monkeys

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2014/09/26

Before getting to the main meat of the episode, a Preamble Hut seems necessary to update a few stories of interest to KARTAS listeners. So gather round as Ken dispatches fresh claims of a DNA solution to the Jack the Ripper mystery, and Robin covers the latest bizarre twist in the Rob Ford saga. Or […]

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Episode 107: Live from Gen Con 2014

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2014/09/19

Join us for another Ken and Robin live episode, this time from beautiful and now slightly better smelling Indianapolis, Indiana. We nerdtrope magical slave revolts, fit the Fords into the Cthulhu mythos, riff on our favorite spice, and more. Hurtle back into mid-August with us! Lead sponsor Atlas Games alerts you to a project near […]

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Episode 106: No One’s Gonna Get an Orange

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2014/09/12

Questions of pacing kick us into fall, as Ask Ken and Robin tackle a query from listener Michael Bowman. In Crime Blotter we hunker down in our tarmac-damaging humvee to consider the trend of police militarization that catapulted to world attention in the wake of the Ferguson protests. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio serves up […]

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Episode 105: Does This Look Like a Railroad to You?

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2014/09/05

In Ask Ken and Robin, we field a Tuukka Heimola question about running great one-shots and convention games. The History Hut reveals itself to be a series of rapidly constructed forts as we look at the Battle of Poltava. Joined by co-panelist Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Ken and Robin Recycle Audio in part one of a two-part […]

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Episode 104: Stabby Detective Stories

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2014/08/29

It’s Gen Con, Gen Con and more Gen Con as we issue our usual bumper Travel Advisory in the wake of the big show. Robin comes home wreathed in Hillfolk glory, Ken and Robin snag gold, Ken makes the flipper motions of supreme pleasure in the presence of Greg Stafford, and we limn unmistakable evidence […]

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Episode 103: Francis Peameal Bacon

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2014/08/22

Ken slaps down suggestions of a Gaming Hut renovation, but that poses little impediment to Robin as he sets out the four key components that make for an engaging obstacle. For more, see Robin’s latest publication, a fundraiser chapbook for the Kraken Convention called Sharper Adventures in HeroQuest Glorantha, available to the public soon after […]

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Episode 102: Nonsense is on the March

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2014/08/15

Ask Ken and Robin tackles a Tim Isakson question on ways to handle tone as a GM. Among My Many Hats tips its pith helmet to Ken’s new GURPS Horror book, The Madness Dossier. How to Write Good sits in the chair to examine discipline, morale, the value of routine, and the hazards of self-doubt. […]

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Episode 101: It’s Like Football Camp

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2014/08/08

Our multi-episode arc about the underwater dead who sell life and buy dreams comes to a conclusion in the Gaming Hut as we break out specific scenario ideas for our riffed setting. In a new segment called Recommendation Engine we tell you what’s catching our fancy in the worlds of books, TV, movies, and food. […]

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Episode 100: Special Anniversary All Lightning Edition

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2014/08/01

Let the bells ring out and the banners fly. It’s the landmark 100th episode of our humble podcast! To celebrate, we’ve collected from listeners across the social media landscape a cornucopia of lightning round questions, which we dispatch with varying degrees of efficiency. Also in a celebratory mood are our ever-reliable anchor sponsors and fine […]

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