Podcast Episodes

Episode 18: Conspiracy To Commit Ophthalmology

This week’s episode  commences with a trip to the Gaming Hut to consider Robin’s dichotomy of rewards versus incentives, which segues into a discussi…

13 years, 1 month ago

Episode 17: A Gorgeous Work of Rosicrucian Monomania

In Ask Ken and Robin, we examine the popularity, or lack thereof, of the western as a roleplaying genre, and point to models historical and cinematic…

13 years, 1 month ago

Episode 16: As Kenya is To Running

Inspired by Christian Marclay’s cinechronological video installation The Clock, Gaming Hut examines time and pacing in roleplaying.

The Schaudenfreud…

13 years, 1 month ago

Episode 15: A Mere Frustum

In The Business of Gaming, Robin shares the Kickstarter lessons he learned from the recent bumper crowdfund of his new roleplaying game, Hillfolk.

Ke…

13 years, 2 months ago

Episode 14: Undetectable Notes of Irony

We kick off with another film festival wrap-up in the Cinema Hut, this time Ken’s visit to the Chicago International Film Festival.

Ask Ken and Robin…

13 years, 2 months ago

Episode 13: That Time We Burned Down the White House

This week’s Ask Ken and Robin asks us to turn a previous thing that Ken always says on its head. When is it better not to base your setting on the re…

13 years, 2 months ago

Episode 12: +4 Damage from Boat

We kick off with a Gaming Hut segment contemplating the question: is it ever okay to kick someone out of your game group and, if so, when?

Jason Bret…

13 years, 2 months ago

Episode 11: When Angels Tell You To Wife-Swap

This week’s installment of Ask Ken and Robin prompts us to wax autobiographical and reveal our similar yet opposite secret origins.

Then we descend i…

13 years, 2 months ago

Episode 10: Brand Confusion

In Among My Many Hats, Robin discusses Hillfolk, his new game of iron age personal interaction, and its DramaSystem engine, now up for crowdfunding. …

13 years, 3 months ago

Episode 9: Riesling and Dirigibles

With a tip of the hat to sponsors Profantasy Software, we fling open the inaugural doors of the Cartography Hut to contemplate maps we have known and…

13 years, 3 months ago