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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 22: Her Agile, Ventriloquistic Foot

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2013/01/18

In a special Cartography Hut / Ask Ken and Robin crossover, Troy Holoday invites us to contemplate the vanished D&D roles of mapper and caller. On a serious note we go to the History Hut for a sense of perspective, if not solace, on America’s relationship with the gun. In the Cinema Hut Robin finally […]

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Episode 21: A Thin Sludge Along the Sidewalks

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2013/01/11

Our first episode of the new year begins in the Gaming Hut, where we examine the difference between showing up to be entertained, and showing up to play. Ask Ken and Robin fields Paul Weimer’s question about fudging die rolls—when, if ever, is it acceptable? The Politics Hut takes on the classic modernist curvature of […]

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Episode 20: Twentieth Century Eccentrics

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2012/12/21

In our final episode of 2012, we issue a Travel Advisory on our recent trip to Dragonmeet in London. A seamless segue then ushers us to the wonder of Ken’s Bookshelf, in which Robin vicariously enjoys the impressive pile of tomes Ken liberated from the British Isles during his journey. With yet another end of […]

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Episode 19: Live from Dragonmeet 2012

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2012/12/14

Join us for our first episode recorded in front of a live audience, in the council chambers at Kensington Town Hall as part of Dragonmeet 2012. We welcome special guest Simon Rogers for an uber edition of Ask Ken and Robin, which in turn encompasses a panoply of our trademark huts. In the process as […]

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Episode 18: Conspiracy To Commit Ophthalmology

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2012/11/28

This week’s episode commences with a trip to the Gaming Hut to consider Robin’s dichotomy of rewards versus incentives, which segues into a discussion of the co-designer syndrome in playtest feedback. Ask Ken and Robin fields a question from Brett Evill on how one might bend history to add Ruritania-style postage stamp states back to […]

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Episode 17: A Gorgeous Work of Rosicrucian Monomania

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2012/11/28

In Ask Ken and Robin, we examine the popularity, or lack thereof, of the western as a roleplaying genre, and point to models historical and cinematic for the adventuring party in spurs and Stetsons. We venture into a particularly cramped and cluttered iteration of the Cartography Hut to spin a passel of story threads from […]

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Episode 16: As Kenya is To Running

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2012/11/23

Inspired by Christian Marclay’s cinechronological video installation The Clock, Gaming Hut examines time and pacing in roleplaying. The Schaudenfreude Institute initiates a new PhD course and Ken plots a bold path forward for his beloved Republican party as we enter the ballot booth-like confines of the Politics Hut to mull the 2012 Presidential Election. In […]

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Truly We Are Golden Geeks

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2012/11/17

Many thanks to all who voted or influenced the voters for the Golden Geek Awards! Your hard work or subtle noodges have paid off, as Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff has won the 2012 Golden Geek Award for Best Podcast! We are both a lot honored and a bit dumfounded, given the great talent […]

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Episode 15: A Mere Frustum

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2012/11/16

In The Business of Gaming, Robin shares the Kickstarter lessons he learned from the recent bumper crowdfund of his new roleplaying game, Hillfolk. Ken brings the light of his presence to a devastated New Jersey in Travel Advisory, recounting his adventures at Metatopia. Ask Ken and Robin envisions the Dominion of America, the alternate world […]

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Episode 14: Undetectable Notes of Irony

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2012/11/09

We kick off with another film festival wrap-up in the Cinema Hut, this time Ken’s visit to the Chicago International Film Festival. Ask Ken and Robin asks us to contemplate the differences between two of Robin’s game engines, DramaSystem and Skulduggery, leading us to contemplate a broader old saw: does system matter? In the Cartography […]

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Episode 13: That Time We Burned Down the White House

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2012/11/02

This week’s Ask Ken and Robin asks us to turn a previous thing that Ken always says on its head. When is it better not to base your setting on the real world? Then Robin and Ken square off in the History Hut for their long-planned reenactment of the War of 1812. As in real […]

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Episode 12: +4 Damage from Boat

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2012/10/25

We kick off with a Gaming Hut segment contemplating the question: is it ever okay to kick someone out of your game group and, if so, when? Jason Breti supplies our Ask Ken and Robin question, leading us to examine Sandy Petersen’s original draft for Call of Cthulhu as compared to the final game we […]

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Episode 11: When Angels Tell You To Wife-Swap

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2012/10/18

This week’s installment of Ask Ken and Robin prompts us to wax autobiographical and reveal our similar yet opposite secret origins. Then we descend into the Paris catacombs, escaping from what we find there only through the maps snatched from the high cabinets of the Cartography Hut. [From Temples, Tombs and Catacombs, part of Profantasy […]

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Episode 10: Brand Confusion

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2012/10/12

In Among My Many Hats, Robin discusses Hillfolk, his new game of iron age personal interaction, and its DramaSystem engine, now up for crowdfunding. Ken teases “Moscow Station”, a DramaSystem Series Pitch offered as a campaign stretch goal. Ask Ken and Robin poses a follow-up on the Puritans, who turn out not to be as […]

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Episode 9: Riesling and Dirigibles

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2012/10/05

With a tip of the hat to sponsors Profantasy Software, we fling open the inaugural doors of the Cartography Hut to contemplate maps we have known and loved. In a frenzy of construction, we then throw caution to the wind and cut the ribbon on Politics Hut, in which we look at the current US […]

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Golden Geek Award Nomination

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2012/10/02

Wow! After a mere nine episodes, our humble audio adventure has garnered a Golden Geek Award nomination as Best Podcast from the good folks at RPGGeek. It’s a worthy crop of nominees and we’re proud to be counted among them. Ken’s aura has taken on a particular sheen with the announcement, as he is also […]

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Episode 8: Cruller-Infested Demi-Paradise

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2012/09/27

If there is a mother of all Cinema Huts, it is the Toronto International Film Festival. We kick off the episode with Robin’s picks from the just-completed 37th fest. Then we skulk into the Conspiracy Corner to put the inflammatory impact of Innocence of Muslims in historical context. In Ask Ken and Robin, we compare […]

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Episode 7: Lindbergh’s Mummy

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2012/09/20

Travel Advisory whisks us on an aural journey to Worldcon, courtesy of Ken, who brings back knowledge of Chinese SF, steampunk semantics, the best vampire novel of the last 100 years, and the dreaded hallway seminar. Along the way we explore the sub-cultural differences between the literary side of geekery and its gaming cousin. We […]

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Episode 6: The Mystic Power of Indexing

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2012/09/14

This week’s stuff-talking kicks off with another Among My Many Hats. Here Robin unravels the circuitous design history of his Dying Earth Revivification Folio, as Ken orders his sandestin to provide him with perks and snails. In Ask Ken and Robin, we ponder cases in which D&D fights are better off without a battle grid. […]

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Episode 5: Gen Con ‘12

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2012/09/07

It’s a bumper installment of Travel Advisory as Ken and Robin look back on the whirlwind that was Gen Con 2012. Amid the fast-flying references: Fantasy Flight’s Spartacus and Netrunner; GURPS Horror, Book of the Smoke, Bookhounds of London, the Coventry Street, Harmonsworth and Highgate Vampires; Charles Fort, Lorefinder, Ashen Stars, 13th Age, Delta Green, […]

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