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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 615: Ranger Problems

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/09/06

In the Gaming Hut we look at ways to tell whether your group will thrive in a sandbox game. Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else features our chat with fast-rising board game designer Clarence Simpson, whose credits include The Wolves, A Message from the Stars, Chomp, and Merchants of Magick. Part two of our Horror […]

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Episode 612: Into the Tundra to Dig Gypsum

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2024/08/16

Your intrepid gaming reporters return from Gen Con 2024 to talk awards, tabletop industry trends and scuttlebutt and maybe a restaurant recommendation or two. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the […]

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Episode 610: She Probably Met a Nice God

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2024/08/02

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Lauberfen asks us to seek mythic inspiration for gaming scenarios. Estimable backer Derek Upham beckons us to the Tradecraft Hut for our take on the theory that infamous pirate Henry Every might have had a second covert career as a spy. The Mythology Hut investigates the shamir, the […]

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Episode 608: The Power is in the Booties

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2024/07/19

Beloved Patreon backer Philip Masters invites a pack of bumblers into the Gaming Hut as he asks how one might run a series based around realistic incompetence in high places. Creep softly up to the Crime Blotter for the tale of prolific UK burglar Flannelfoot, aka Henry Vickers. The Cinema Hut doesn’t have trouble getting […]

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Episode 607: Legend of the Feral Pears

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2024/07/12

Gape in wonder at the Gaming Hut as beloved Patreon backer Steve Hammond asks how one might emulate the awe of the Jurassic Park dinosaur reveal scene at the gaming table. Well-traveled backers Ed Sizemore and Rafael Pabst journey to the Cartography Hut for the story of fictive medieval travel writer John Mandeville. The Monster […]

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[REPOST] Episode 606: Very Real Threat of Dialogue

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2024/07/10

Due to a posting error the week previous, some pod apps ignored this episode as already read and did not download it. Apologies to those receiving the file a second time. In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Ross Ireland asks gamemasters tips to use when the player characters receive an imaginary tome chock-full of […]

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Episode 605: Astrophysicists Not Acronym Physicists

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2024/06/28

Beloved Patreon backer Noel Warford summons us to the Gaming Hut, asking how to coax more independence from one’s players. Estimable backer Kevin Nault pries open the door to the Archaeology Hut to hear the very colorful story, or stories, surrounding the discovery of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts. The discovery of a planet with a […]

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Episode 604: It Takes a While to Work

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2024/06/21

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Ryan McClelland asks for tips on incorporating 1890s anarchists into The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. After many previous passing mentions, writer, explorer, scenester and cannibal William Seabrook finally becomes the subject of his own History Hut segment. Without the paper bag and cardboard box the grocery industry would […]

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Episode 602: They Have a Space Lawyer

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2024/06/07

In the Gaming Hut, Ken turns the tables on Robin by springing a concept for a game on him. Eavesdrop on the process as they riff on Ley Brothers. The Crime Blotter reaches back into America’s history of 19th century violence to cover the assassination of Kentucky governor William Goebel. In Ask Ken and Robin […]

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Episode 600: LIGHTNING ROUND!!!

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2024/05/24

Numbers come and numbers go but when the podcast odometer clicks over to 600 Ken and Robin listeners know what to expect: the thunderous return of LIGHTNING ROUND!!! Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all […]

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Episode 599: You Can’t Rule Fish Out

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2024/05/17

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Bob Grider asks how to create mystery hooks for sovereign citizens in The Yellow King: This Is Normal Now. With dire inevitability this leads to a discussion of pan-conspiratorialist Romana Didulo, aka the Queen of Canada. Estimable backer Paul Douglas seeks the Tradecraft Hut take on the death […]

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Episode 598: Do We Really Want That Horse In Here?

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2024/05/10

Picking up where a previous Gaming Hut left off, beloved Patreon backer Gene Ha asks about scenarios where one of the PCs is a mole working against the rest of the group. In Ask Ken and Robin, estimable backer Martin Rundkvist asks how Ken’s planned relocation of Swords of the Serpentine to Venice is going […]

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Episode 597: The Copper Scroll is Real

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2024/05/03

In the Gaming Hut we talk about our visit to Shadowcon in Barcelona, courtesy of our beloved pals at Shadowlands, who have just published a stunning edition of the Dracula Dossier in the Spanish language. Travel Advisory covers our exploration of the less nerdy reaches of our new favorite city, with an obligatory selection of […]

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Episode 596: Also a No Show Job

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2024/04/26

In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Andrew Miller asks for tips on playing paladins well. We enter the History Hut to wonder what shattered the mind of Tudor historian John Leland. Amid the popcorn munching of the Cinema Hut estimable backer David Sowa asks why so many action movies have poor final acts. Finally […]

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Episode 594: Bishop of the Drowned Land

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2024/04/12

In the Gaming Hut we identify the elements of a great recurring gamemaster character. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Lester Ward, the Archaeology Hut mulls the ancient Egyptian fortresses that were flooded by the building of the Aswan dam. In the Book Hut tough, wisecracking Patreon backer Adam Grotjohn seeks a 101 on […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: A Mexican Machen...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/04/02

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 592: A Rhode Island Level of Excitement

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2024/03/29

In the Gaming Hut we find ways to bring players back into the action when they make sensible decisions that sideline their characters. 2Beloved Patreon backer Paul S. Enns beckons us into the Tradecraft Hut to cover the May 23rd Lake Maggiore boating accident. In the Monster Hut we look at the blemmyae, the hungry […]

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Episode 591: Good Fun That Barbarians Have

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2024/03/22

In the Gaming Hut, Robin pitches Ken on a concept for a roleplaying game called Renfields. The Mythology Hut looks at the enigmatic Dacian god and/or person named Zalmoxis, who might have been a sky deity. Or an earth deity. Or a physician. In Ask Ken and Robin, beloved Patreon backer Walter Manbeck asks Robin […]

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Episode 590: Rolled a Critical and Saved a Clown

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2024/03/15

We hope you can make it to the Gaming Hut for a discussion of quorum and attendance vagaries. In the History Hut we answer the request of beloved Patreon backer Jeromy French to flesh out a topic we have previously only alluded to—the Toronto clown-fireman riot. Finally Ken’s Bookshelf features a mere half of our […]

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Episode 588: Full Stop Anti-Marooning

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2024/03/01

Keep your ancient documents well-hidden in the Gaming Hut, as beloved Patreon backer Brian Thomas asks us how to construct a Bookhounds of London one-shot around explorer Aurel Stein, the Great Game, and the Diamond Sutras. When architects go wrong they wind up not in their own hut, but on the Crime Blotter, as is […]

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