Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
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Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff
Podcast by Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws
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Episode 670: The Ghost of Cromwell’s Head
The Gaming Hut looks at the peace paradox, in which players successfully negotiate their way out of a conflict and then feel let down by the anti-clim...
Episode 669: His Botanist Turns On Him
The Gaming Hut becomes a pit stop as beloved Patreon backer Aser Tolentino asks how a tabletop game might reproduce the spectacle of Formula One racin...
Episode 668: Skating and Painting
In the Gaming Hut we wonder what might appear on a tabletop roleplaying design course curriculum. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Charles Pica...
Episode 667: Live at Gen Con
Recorded live at Gen Con, Ken, special guest co-host Darcy Ross and a cameo from Robin’s disembodied voice, this extra-special episode features the ob...
Episode 666: It Ruins the Flavor
In the spirit of the episode number, we kick off a demons and devils special in the Gaming Hut. Robin pitches Ken three ideas for a game with demon PC...
Episode 665: A Friend is a Crunchy Bit
Clutch your stakes and polish your silver bullets as the Gaming Hut looks at the special vulnerabilities that allow player characters to defeat monste...
Episode 664: Oxford, Another University
In the Gaming Hut we look at how the unsatisfying nature of real life persuasion leads to player dissatisfaction with social combat systems. In Ken an...
Episode 663: I Know This Isn’t in the Brochure
Beloved Patreon backer Sikander orders and/or bribes the Gaming Hut into a discussion of game mechanics that require players to take in-genre actions...
Episode 662: Scuttlebutt City
Ken is back from Gen Con to share his main takeaways from the 2025 show in OUR latest Travel Advisory. The Cinema Hut fantasy film essentials series c...
Episode 661: Dismiss All the Butlers
In the Gaming Hut we look at ways to run prelude scenes in scenarios, set before its main objective becomes apparent. The Word Hut gets judgmental as...
Episode 660: That’s North Brownland Energy
The episode starts with a retreat to the Gaming Hut as we talk about the importance of a safe headquarters for player characters. The Command Hut look...
Episode 659: We’ve Ouroborosed It
In the Gaming Hut we consider the two meanings of the term roleplaying. Through the joint auspices of Travel Advisory and the Culture Hut we profile s...
Episode 658: Personality Temu
Beloved Patreon backer Tennant Reed seeks Gaming Hut tips on scenarios where the player characters discover that they’re not who they think they are....
Episode 657: More Mason, Less Free
Settle back for some Gaming Hut disambiguation as beloved Patreon backer Bart Mallio asks us to explain the difference between a setting and a campaig...
Episode 656: They Brought Him Pig Lard
The Gaming Hut gets informative as beloved Patreon backer Daiv Barr asks for campaign frames built around the librarian answer-seeking list Stumpers-L...
Episode 655: You Think Too Much About Pole Arms
As assigned by an anonymous beloved Patreon backer, the Gaming Hut ponders a university urban fantasy campaign where the syllabuses matter as much as...
Episode 654: My Serpent Man Godfrey
The Gaming Hut has stacked up the non-perishables and gas masks to answer beloved Patroen backer’s Jason Thompson about a campaign that starts on the...
Episode 653: Flankington’s Syndrome
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Michael Cule wants to know more about the role dice play in roleplaying games. Fun With Science answers estim...
Episode 652: Break a Window and Wait for Film Night
In the Gaming Hut we talk roleplaying the French Revolution at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Dr. Nick. The Tradecraft Hut profiles English spy...
Episode 651: Meditating in a Cave
Beloved Patreon backer beckons us to the Gaming Hut seeking tips on keeping PC hope alive when the bad guys run the authorities. In the Tradecraft Hut...
Episode 650: LIGHTNING ROUND!!!
Much has changed since our last anniversary episode, but one thing that remains the same is our dedication to celebratory LIGHTNING ROUND!!! questions...
Episode 649: I Should Join Your Undead Throng
The Gaming Hut finds reasons for player characters to show mercy toward defeated opponents. Hoaxing is usually a white collar crime. Not so, as the Cr...
Episode 648: Hey Isn’t That Ezra Pound?
In Among My Many Hats, Robin tells all about Page Turners, his game of dramatic interaction for one player and one game moderator, in which he is join...
Episode 647: Live at THE KRAKEN
For the first time at THE KRAKEN, the legendary Gaming Retreat held in the remote yet cozy environs of the Schloss Neuhausen in what used to be Prussi...
Episode 646: Three Airstrikes, Total
Sometimes you want to let the player characters stand back and let more capable parties mop up the threat. The Gaming Hut finds ways to keep that exci...
Episode 645: I Don’t Make Up These Real Events
In the Gaming Hut we look at that essential tool in the GM’s arsenal, the ability to bend world logic toward the fun. At the behest of beloved Patreon...
Episode 644: This is Not a Skeptical Museum
The Gaming Hut situates itself in a dense woodland for beloved Patreon backer Ben A’s request for tips on a historical time slip scenario. Ken issues...
Episode 643: Not Even Enough Gnomes
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Sikander asks us to tackle a scenario where the PCs have to figure out whether their boss’ secrecy is siniste...
Episode 642: Radicalized by a Fish
In Gaming Hut we discuss organizing one’s game mastering notes. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Sam Rutzick, the Horror Hut asks if Jacobin op...
Episode 641: Consolation Mummy
In the Gaming Hut we ask what it means for a rule to work. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Nicola Wilson, the Archaeology Hut investigates the...
Episode 640: Smooth-Fingered Dystopia
At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Lauberfen we gather the suspects in the Gaming Hut to ask how to make the revelation as compelling as the myst...
Episode 639: This Appendix Should Not Have Been Printed
In the Gaming Hut we look at optional rules. What does it mean to designate a rule as optional, and what rules are we likely to put in that bucket? Th...
Episode 638: Subtlety is Its Enemy
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Walter Manbeck asks us to tell him more about the 2023 Irish weird folk music film All You Need Is Death, and...
Episode 637: Sausage Apologist
The Gaming Hut gets a round table as beloved Patreon backer James Kiley seeks tips on mashing up Pendragon with Call of Cthulhu. At the behest of es...
Episode 636: I Don’t Know the Asparagus
In the Gaming Hut we look at the optional scene paradox in adventure writing. The Weapon Hut gives us a rare chance to un-fun ruin, as we debunk claim...
Episode 635: His Cousin Latte Dick
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Tom Abella seeks tips on compiling historical reading lists to players. We don elaborate ruffs in the Tradecr...
Episode 634: Jurisdiction Over Pretend Securities
In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Joshua Randall seeks tips on setting up a new campaign for success. Our latest Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someo...
Episode 633: Barrel Full of Outlaw
In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Jörgen Blomberg suggests that there’s something F20 games handle even worse than falling damage—injuries fro...
Episode 632: An American is Being Wrong
At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Charles Picard, the Gaming Hut ponders cultural diaspora in F20 settings. The Archaeology Hut looks at a recen...
Episode 631: A Vestigial Nub
In the Gaming Hut Robin discusses his recently concluded Golden Age DC superheroes versus the Cthulhu mythos game. Travel Advisory recalls our visit t...