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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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1:05:57

Episode 587: Someone’s Gonna Wear the Skin

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/02/23

Beloved Patreon backer Mark Kenney inspires us to wear our classiest outfits in the Gaming Hut as we seek ways to bring the vocabulary of clothing and fashion to tabletop narration. The Food Hut examines an old school staple dessert ingredient and the man who popularized it in North America, with the story of Walter […]

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1:05:35

Episode 586: The Velveteen Rabbit of Signage

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/02/16

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Hector Trelane takes inspiration from Robin’s EZ One Shot system to ask if designers are finding a root language of roleplaying that points toward a less cluttered style of play. At the behest of estimable backer Kristian Groenseth the Cartography Hut investigates the fake stop sign epidemic that […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Slow Horses, American...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/02/13

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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1:01:45

Episode 585: Advice and Holy Water

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/02/09

In the Gaming Hut we look at the paradox of choice, in which players want many alternative paths yet also want to explore all of them. The Archaeology Hut surveys the career of William Stukeley, the 18th century polymath whose studies of Stonehenge and Avebury made him one of the field’s foundational figures. In the […]

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1:01:25

Episode 584: Maybe a Murder is Good Sometimes

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/02/02

In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Joshua Randall asks for help dealing with players who like to shoot down everyone else’s plans. Fans of irony will appreciate the story of Edo firebreaks, as told in the History Hut. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio concludes our excerpts from the Dramatic Interaction panel at Gen Con […]

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1:01:27

Episode 583: Marge the Druid is Feeling Rejected

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/01/26

In the Gaming Hut beloved backer Ludovic Chabant asks Robin to expand on his choice for favorite RPG adventure, as seen on the Scroll for Initiative blog. Naturally Ken also makes a choice or two himself. Estimable backer Fred Kiesche beckons us to the Architecture Hut, which has a Culture Hut inside, and possibly a […]

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1:07:42

Episode 582: That’s a Bad Laser

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/01/19

In the Gaming Hut beloved backer Jamie Twine seeks tips on signaling weirdness and danger in horror games not set in our recognizable world. Esteemed backer Ginger asks for the Tradecraft Hut take on the OSINT journalism entity Bellingcat. Ken and Robin Recycle Audio with the first part of a Dramatic Interaction panel from Gen […]

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1:03:46

Episode 581: Bureaucratic Survival Horror

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/01/12

Everything unravels in the Gaming Hut when beloved Patreon backer Tennant Reed asks us to use the Watergate docudramedy Gaslit as inspiration for a heist gone wrong game. Ken’s Bookshelf delivers a change of pace segment as Robin asks our resident bibliomane to describe the five most specialized books in his collection. In Ripped from […]

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1:05:29

Episode 580: The Most Fun Word in the History of...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2024/01/05

The Gaming Hut contains a special rack for displaying fancy blades as beloved Patreon backer Stephen Dosman asks us to find the tabletop fun in Ulfberht swords. In the Cinema Hut we look at the newest cycle of female-focused, character-driven horror films. Estimable backer Manfred Gabriel uses his Ask Ken and Robin powers to seek […]

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Episode 579: Live at Dragonmeet 2023

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/12/22

Our annual live episode recorded at London’s Dragonmeet finds our audience of expert questioners in a substantive mood. Accordingly, after nerdtroping WWII and the Peloponnesian war and contemplating high end snacks, we look at the unsolved problems of gaming, solo game design, troupe play and so much more. That puts 2023 in the rearview mirror […]

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1:10:31

Episode 578: Subtitle Quibbler

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/12/15

The Gaming Hut explodes in a molasses fireball full of staplers, but then does something entirely sensible, as we consider ways to reframe the fumble. The Eliptony Hut studies a locally beloved cryptid, the Loveland Ohio frogman. Finally Ken’s Bookshelf features an unusually sleek and selective London book haul, as our hero describes treasures liberated […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Godzilla Minus One,...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/12/12

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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1:06:22

Episode 577: A Glove on the Flipper

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/12/08

In the Gaming Hut we come to the aid of beloved Patreon backer Keelan O’Hea, who wants to know how to revive a campaign after a period spent on hold. Recent reports that it is the world’s oldest pyramid surely had you wondering when we were going to discuss Indonesia’s Gunung Padang in the Archaeology […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: High School Fight Club,...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/12/06

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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1:01:59

Episode 576: Pantheon Hop

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/12/01

In the Gaming Hut we ask ourselves whether designers should include optional rules they don’t actually recommend using. The History Hut takes on the smell of rocket fuel as beloved backer Fred Kiesche asks for the real made-up story behind the US anti-satellite weapons of Program 437. Estimable backer Shane Cubis bids us to the […]

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Episode 575: Your Starter Past Life

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/11/24

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Alexander Arebalo wants to know how to make a building more of a character than a setting in a scenario. Glittering backer Josh King checks the Crime Blotter for the story of Civil War gold that one treasure hunter accuses the FBI of stealing right from under his […]

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1:09:12

Episode 574: Kettle of Worms

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/11/17

In the Gaming Hut show you how to remind players that their characters are the experts. The Tradecraft Hut profiles American novelist, journalist and Soviet spy Martha Dodd. Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else finds us chatting with designer and theorist John R. Harness. Finally at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Patrick Holmes, […]

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Episode 573: Have a Train Handy

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/11/10

In the Gaming Hut we discuss ways to build premise acceptance into pregenerated characters. Beloved Patreon backer invites us to the Horror Hut to discuss H. P. Lovecraft’s view that Bram Stoker was not the sole author of Dracula. Director Paul Schrader recently observed that movie audiences are dumber now. In the Cinema Hut we […]

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Episode 572: Rains of Peas and Gravel

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/11/03

In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Bart Mallio asks us for ways to make traps exciting. Redoubtable backer Patrick Crowley directs us to the History Hut for a look at St. Louis’ Veiled Prophet tradition. The Food Hut takes on a retrofuturistic look as tasteful backer Rich Ranallo asks us for the lowdown on […]

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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Satanists, Demon...

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff ·

2023/10/31

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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