Podcast Episodes

Oxford, Another University

Season 2025 Episode 664

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 and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken sits down…

Published on 3 days, 11 hours ago

I Know This Isn’t in the Brochure

Season 2025 Episode 663

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 versus those that offer rewards for doing so.

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

Scuttlebutt City

Season 2025 Episode 662

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 covers the early 1970s.

Speaking of Gen Con, t…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Dismiss All the Butlers

Season 2025 Episode 661

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 we look at archaic, obscure and rarely used wo…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

That’s North Brownland Energy

Season 2025 Episode 660

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 looks at Aggressor, Krasnovia, and other fictional…

Published on 1 month ago

We’ve Ouroborosed It

Season 2025 Episode 659

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 surrealist occultist painter Ithell Colquhoun, s…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Personality Temu

Season 2025 Episode 658

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.

The Crime Blotter profiles Old West cattle ru…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

More Mason, Less Free

Season 2025 Episode 657

Settle back for some Gaming Hut disambiguation as beloved Patreon backer Bart Mallio asks us to explain the difference between a setting and a campaign frame.

The Mythos Hut listens to a conch an…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

They Brought Him Pig Lard

Season 2025 Episode 656

The Gaming Hut gets informative as beloved Patreon backer Daiv Barr asks for campaign frames built around the librarian answer-seeking list Stumpers-L, aka Project Wombat.

The Mythology Hut looks …

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

You Think Too Much About Pole Arms

Season 2025 Episode 655

As assigned by an anonymous beloved Patreon backer, the Gaming Hut ponders a university urban fantasy campaign where the syllabuses matter as much as the sylphs.

The History Hut retreats to the h…

Published on 2 months ago