Podcast Episodes

Episode 148: The Truffles of the Fiend Folio

The Gaming Hut acquires extra filigrees and an extended backstory as we examine the cognitive investments gamers make when they learn to love detail.…

10 years, 6 months ago

Episode 147: The Worst Doppelganger

Spruce up your decor as the Gaming Hut reveals the secrets of room description.

Ken does the bulk of the replying in an eliptonic Ask Ken and Robin, …

10 years, 6 months ago

Episode 146: The Most Punished “Well Actually” Ever

Guns blaze and mystic swords clash as Among My Many Hats goes under the hood on Blowing Up the Movies, Robin’s new book of essays combing the action …

10 years, 6 months ago

Episode 145: I’ll Bet It’s a Bad Star

Alex Guerrero has played before but never GMed. He wants to introduce a trio of interested neophytes/family members to roleplaying through a session …

10 years, 6 months ago

Episode 144: Chaotic Prolix

Abandon your neutrality as we enter the Gaming Hut to talk about alignment in D&D.

Find out if we’ve been digging what you’ve been digging about the …

10 years, 7 months ago

Episode 143: You Can’t Just Set It on Fire

Using the conveniently public domain 1972 film Horror Express as a baseline, we demonstrate how to adapt a movie into a scenario worthy of the Gaming…

10 years, 7 months ago

Episode 142: The Scots Cannibal Registry

In the Gaming Hut we ask how much work game design should do to constrain problem players.

Be careful in the History Hut not to sit in the sledgehamm…

10 years, 7 months ago

Episode 141: Larger and Larger Cups

In Ask Ken and Robin your intrepid hosts field an Eion Dornan question about helping players take on the role of real historical figures.

The story o…

10 years, 7 months ago

Episode 140: More Like Winter Derleth

Crack open your Chaotic Neutral dictionary as Ken and Robin venture into the Gaming Hut to spitball a fantasy world extrapolated from the existence o…

10 years, 8 months ago

Episode 139: Live from Cthulhucon

Screaming to you from the abyssal depths of the downtown Portland Oregon Crowne Plaza, comes our latest live episode. Join us as we talk Dracula vs. …

10 years, 8 months ago