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 712: Old Tornado Hand
His head still spinning from the whirl of Gen Con 2026, Ken issues a Travel Advisory covering its news and scuttlebutt. The Gaming Hut’s Hamlet’s GM S...
Episode 711: Supervising Sub-Eviscerator
The Gaming Hut’s Hamlet’s GM Screen series continues with the handoff, the moment when the players deal with the scenario’s initial choices. In the Ho...
Episode 710: USS Self-Awareness
Our Hamlet’s GM Screen series continues in the Gaming Hut with a look at the prelude sequence in an adventure where the PCs poke around town shopping...
Episode 709: From Sling to King
We open in the Preamble Hut for an important announcement. This year, along with the rest of the Pelgrane Press crew, we will be attending Tabletop Sc...
Episode 708: A Threat and a Metaphor
The Gaming Hut tour through Robin’s new book Hamlet’s GM Screen resumes with a look at the beats of Session Zero. The Tradecraft Hut peers into the do...
Episode 707: What Animal Did That to You
Beloved Patreon backer Hyperlexic summons us to the Gaming Hut to propose alternate eras for Fall of DELTA Green. Fun with Science reveals the gnarly...
Episode 706: A Thing I Seemed to Be Wrong About
Our Gaming Hut tour of concepts from Robin’s new book Hamlet’s GM Screen continues with a look at up and down beats, the lifeblood of narrative engage...
Episode 705: A Real Science That Can Do Magic
Gaming Hut starts a deep dive into Robin’s imminent book Hamlet’s GM Screen, by looking at the types of narrative beats as they appear at the gaming t...
Episode 704: Mummy Curse Coded
Among My Many Hats presents Robin’s new book Hamlet’s GM Screen, coming in July from Pelgrane Press. The Monster Hut looks around the corner at that l...
Episode 703: I Only Knew Twenty Lesser Sages
The Gaming Hut picks up on our previous general discussion of tuning pregens to a scenario by finding hooks for Trail of Cthulhu Investigators about t...
Episode 702: An Alliance with Squirrels
Want to make sure that your players feel their successes? The Gaming Hut pitches in by looking at the difference between permissions and rewards. Belo...
Episode 701: Star of Arioch Setting
In the Gaming Hut we get started quickly by asking how much background detail players want in a pregenerated character. Making good on a promise from...
Episode 700: LIGHTNING ROUNNNDD!!!
Ken and Robin celebrate the astounding 700th episode milestone of their eponymous podcast by once again answering listeners’ LIGHTNING ROUNNNNDD!!! qu...
Episode 699: Double Deepfake
We’re really in the Gaming Hut, honest, as beloved Patreon backer Ben Brighoff asks for deepfake plot hooks. Estimable backer Alexander Arebalo reques...
Episode 698: A Common or Government Bar
The Gaming Hut looks at the key difference in scenario design, between what happens to the player characters, and what they can do. The Tradecraft Hut...
Episode 697: Supposedly Good Idea Hall of Fame
Taking inspiration from a previously dropped idle phrase, the Gaming Hut proudly presents Dinosaur Flying Aces. At the behest of beloved Patreon backe...
Episode 696: Too Ready in Some Cases
The Gaming Hut advises players assigned the role of ringer or traitor. The Archaeology Hut tours the Papoura Hill Circular Structure in Crete, recentl...
Episode 695: You’ve Clearly Never Dealt with Balloon People
In the Gaming Hut we wonder what encumbrance rules would look like if they were fun. The History Hut profiles a figure who appears in Ballad Hunters,...
Episode 694: The Age of Plentiful Miniatures
The Gaming Hut provides tips for staying true to the path of the doom as a player in Page Turners. The Monster Hut ventures into the forest for a meet...
Episode 693: Suits or Whippersnappers
In the Gaming Hut Ken recaps his just-concluded, seven year long FALL OF DELTA GREEN campaign. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Sam Harris, the...
Episode 692: Guys Who Hate Mustaches in Kent
At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Manfred Gabriel, the Gaming Hut shows how to keep the heat on the PCs when they’re on the run. Whether he’s a...
Episode 691 – From Such Triangles As
The Gaming Hut entertains a salty take as we wonder whether GMs who say rules don’t matter are actually using them in the first place. Beloved Patreon...
Episode 690: Never Look It Up
The Gaming Hut takes you through the process of devising a supporting cast for a Page Turners scenario. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer bt, th...
Episode 689: Bring Out the Claw
In the Gaming Hut we explain why idiot plotting is an even bigger problem in tabletop rpgs than fiction or movies. At the behest of beloved Patreon ba...
Episode 688: Earthquake Marriage
In the Gaming Hut we create a Page Turners protagonist. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Charles Picard the Architecture Hut examines the work...
Episode 687: Speaking of Magical Tools
The Gaming Hut starts us off with a contemplation of introductory adventures. The Horror Hut unearths the surely vampiric backstory of a loin-cloth cl...
Episode 686: Those are Saga Numbers
We start in the Gaming Hut by looking at providing clues to players. In the History Hut we ask which saint had the highest body count. Was it Norway’s...
Episode 685: Eleven Johnsons
Before beloved Patreon backer Sikander can betray us, the Gaming Hut answers his question about the Mr. Johnson trope in roleplaying games. Special gu...
Ken and Robin Consume Media: Blue Moon, The Secret Agent, Chain Reactions
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...
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Episode 684: His Other Cavil is Even Worse
In the Gaming Hut we reluctantly rouse ourselves to answer beloved Patreon backer Toonspew’s request for a look at the Church of the Sub-Genius. At th...
Episode 683: Disturbing Holes and Barrows
In the Gaming Hut we look at the sorts of stories that work as Page Turners scenarios. The Archaeology Hut digs into the case of the Russian archaeolo...
Episode 682: The Biter Has Departed
The Gaming Hut follows up a previous pedagogical segment by wondering what a course syllabus for tabletop rpg development and editing might look cover...
Episode 681: Space Oprah
As you may have heard in our previous episode, a mysterious technical event ate our recording of our live episode at this year’s Dragonmeet. In the fa...
Episode 680: It’s the American
The Gaming Hut wonders what would happen in an F20 world where the smoke from burned magic scrolls produced a potent intoxication? Thanks to the Secre...
Episode 679: His Frequency is Powerful
Beloved Patreon backer Ben A. takes the Gaming Hut to New York’s Chinatown in 1973 for tips on a game that mixes triads with the Bruce Lee legacy. Est...
Episode 678: A Word for All the Chairs
In the Gaming Hut we look at a core part of the rpg designer’s skill set, table sense, or the ability to predict what players will do with your materi...
Episode 677: South America is Very Long
Beloved Patreon backer Darcy Casselman summons us to the Gaming Hut in search of tips on playing a gestalt or troupe-style leader character, such as a...
Episode 676: Always Want to Get Book
In the Gaming Hut we examine the principle of design by subtraction. The Crime Blotter investigates the career of thief turned detective Eugène-Franco...
Episode 675: Performative Hermitry
The Gaming Hut continues its preview of Robin’s new game Page Turners with a demonstration of scene calling choices. The History Hut takes a garden st...
Episode 674: As I Used to Pronounce It
With the print run imminent for Page Turners, Robin’s new game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, the Gaming Hut takes it for a spin,...