Podcast Episodes

Episode 159: I Was a 10 Year Old Nihilist

The Gaming Hut finds us in an under-the-hood mood as we turn over Robin’s assertion that a full adventure written as early in the process as possible…

10 years, 3 months ago

Episode 158: Englishman is Not Actually Valued For Its Own Flavor

Our recording chambers may be hot but our subject matter gets cold, cold, cold, as Among My Many Hats takes a look at the Wendigo.

In How To Write Go…

10 years, 3 months ago

Episode 157: I Have Points in Both, Simon

A skepticism of all things pseudopod suffuses the question Thomas Deeny poses in Ask Ken and Robin. “Why Cthulhu? By that, I mean, why do gamers love…

10 years, 4 months ago

Episode 156: Crazily Pork-Bellied

In the dog days before Labor Day, Ask Ken and Robin happily accepts a softball from Cam Banks (a ringer name if ever we heard one.) “Why is “fantasy”…

10 years, 4 months ago

Episode 155: Semi-Facing Into the Abyss

Genetic enhancements meet tradecraft as Among My Many Hats looks under the hood of Ken’s new Mutant City Blues campaign frame, “Mutant City Spies.”

T…

10 years, 4 months ago

Episode 153: Gen Con 2015 in Review

As the action opens in the Gaming Hut, we find Ken and Robin just one day back from Gen Con, punchy but unbowed. Hear them talk Diana Jones Awards, t…

10 years, 5 months ago

Episode 152: X-Acto Athame

Buckle up your extra special rapier for a jaunt into the Gaming Hut to consider the connection between gear and status.

Take extra reindeer with you,…

10 years, 5 months ago

Episode 151: Draculas Competing To Be the Dracula

Robin gets a head start on his Dracula Dossier homework as the Gaming Hut lays out the whys and hows of campaign frames.

The titular chapeau takes on…

10 years, 5 months ago

Episode 150: Anniversary Lightning Round Extravaganza III

Stuff we’re here to talk about in this milestone episode might include Ben Franklin, the Flash, Zeus, Tom Fury, Phar Lap, keraunomedicine, the Lockh…

10 years, 5 months ago

Episode 149: Contemptible People Tavern

Line up your polyhedrals in order of social preference as we enter the Gaming Hut to examine caste and class in worldbuilding.

The History Hut provid…

10 years, 6 months ago