Podcast Episodes

Episode 28: Possibly an Anagnorisis

That Vitamin D sheen you see on Ken’s glossy coat shows that he recently escaped Chicago’s frigid embrace for the sunshine of California’s Bay Area, …

12 years, 10 months ago

Episode 27: League of Extraordinary Skeletons

In Ask Ken and Robin, we field Conrad Kinch’s query about the politics of game design. Do a designer’s political beliefs show up in his work?

Then, a…

12 years, 10 months ago

Episode 26: Passing the Legislation To See What’s In It

In an unprecedented merger of the Gaming Hut with the Politics Hut, we look to political scientist Steven Teles’ theory of government as kludgeocracy…

12 years, 11 months ago

Episode 25: Finally, the Woodrow Wilson Throwdown

In the Gaming Hut, we mull the economics of game design. Will the Kickstarter wave usher in a new era of component-driven play?

Then it’s off to the …

12 years, 11 months ago

Episode 24: Conan Gets a Fish

After two bits of preamble business, one elegiac and the other bathetic , we issue a Travel Advisory to wring vicarious enjoyment from Ken’s journey …

12 years, 11 months ago

Episode 23: Within the Eliptonic Radius

Kicking off with another service-oriented segment of Ask Ken and Robin, we suggest ways to introduce a rich setting to players who are unfamiliar wit…

12 years, 11 months ago

Episode 22: Her Agile, Ventriloquistic Foot

In a special Cartography Hut / Ask Ken and Robin crossover, Troy Holoday invites us to contemplate the vanished D&D roles of mapper and caller.

On a …

12 years, 11 months ago

Episode 21: A Thin Sludge Along the Sidewalks

Our first episode of the new year begins in the Gaming Hut, where we examine the difference between showing up to be entertained, and showing up to p…

13 years ago

Episode 20: Twentieth Century Eccentrics

In our final episode of 2012, we issue a Travel Advisory on our recent trip to Dragonmeet in London. A seamless segue then ushers us to the wonder of…

13 years ago

Episode 19: Live from Dragonmeet 2012

Join us for our first episode recorded in front of a live audience, in the council chambers at Kensington Town Hall as part of Dragonmeet 2012. We we…

13 years, 1 month ago