Podcast Episodes

Episode 38: Driving Bananas Around

We start with a visit to the Gaming Hut to discuss the play utility of illustrations.

In the Food Hut we explore the legends and lore of packaged goo…

12 years, 8 months ago

Episode 37: Ghost-Kissed Pilsner

The undertones of jet lag in Robin’s voice indicate the issuance of another Travel Advisory, in this case concerning his lovely trip to Germany’s Han…

12 years, 8 months ago

Episode 36: A Scuba Diver Walks Into an Ice Cream Shop

Ken and Robin hit a bare and blackened stage to bring the improv concept of “yes anding” to the Gaming Hut.

In Ask Ken and Robin, they answer Kevin J…

12 years, 8 months ago

Episode 35: The Most English Story Ever Told

We start in the leatherbound precincts of the Book Hut for a look at a classic piece of early travel writing, Alexander William Kinglake’s Eothen. Gr…

12 years, 8 months ago

Episode 34: Easily Approached By My Techniques

Ken and Robin meet in the Gaming Hut to workshop a game mechanic—the interpersonal disadvantage.

The Tradecraft Hut uses further evidence that Blackw…

12 years, 9 months ago

Episode 33: Bring Your Own Goat

We kick off with another Travel Advisory, this one centered on Ken’s quest to Las Vegas and the Gama Trade Show, to prise from it premonitions of the…

12 years, 9 months ago

Episode 32: Cash in Your Magic Swords

Scoops of polyhedrals in hand, we enter the Gaming Hut to contemplate the power of experience points. Are they justified in a genre-emulative design?…

12 years, 9 months ago

Episode 31: Love, Gerald Ford

In the Gaming Hut, we consider the soul of the orc. How do you present this classic fantasy trope without letting in the toxin of real world racism?

12 years, 9 months ago

Episode 30: Ring-Tailed and Fructivorous

In our latest venture into the Gaming Hut, we consider the classic sandbox versus railroad opposition. Useful dichotomy, or intellectual black hole t…

12 years, 10 months ago

Episode 29: Because, Hey, Benzedrine

We start by venturing into the Genre Hut to limn the fraught boundaries of the Fake Nerd crisis.

Our examination of the Chelyabinsk meteor takes us i…

12 years, 10 months ago