Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Get your share of the reward as the Gaming Hut Hamlet’s GM Screen series looks at treasure. Beloved Patreon backer Toonspew ventures into the Mythos Hut to request our thoughts on Mythos entity team-ups. How to Write Good righteously defends the adverb. Finally the Ken’s Time Machine heads to the kingdom of the Franks as […]

Beat analysis finally covers beatings as the Gaming Hut Hamlet’s GM Screen series discusses the ups and downs of combat. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken chats with Gorilla Games’ Jeff Siadek. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Robert Wolfe, the Culture Hut reveals what is hidden about vaudeville. Finally estimable […]

After a hiatus, our Hamlet’s GM Screen series stealths back into the Gaming Hut for a look at the narrative beats of sneaking and infiltration. The Tradecraft Hut assembles a dossier on the recent arrest of former German spy chief August Hanning. The Stock Character Hut learns to loose its inhibitions with a look at […]

Get ready to go to hell and have a good dangerous time there as Among My Many Hats delves into Robin’s writing and design contributions to the computer narrative strategy game Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, now available on Steam. Inspired by Ken’s recent journey there, Travel Advisory presents a gamer’s guide to Florence. The […]

You heard us at Edinburgh, but now it’s time to talk about Edinburgh, and Tabletop Scotland, in our latest Travel Advisory. Speaking of Edinburgh, the History Hut doffs its helmet to the Scotland’s First Warriors show at its National Museum. But wait you ask does Edinburgh have used bookshops? Did Sheila buy enough yarn to […]

From the airport-adjacent splendor of Edinburgh’s Highland Hall, Ken and Robin appear live at Tabletop Scotland to talk Edison’s miracles, wild west icons, successors to The Armitage Files, updating cyberpunk, food allergy protocols, and, of course, haggis. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for […]

The Gaming Hut gets salty as we look into the dire implications of the standard rpg writing phrase “at the GM’s discretion.” The Crime Blotter recounts the exploits of serial 18th century prison escaper Jean Henri Latude. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken talks to Glaiza Champion, designer of such games as […]

The Gaming Hut series of revelations from Robin’s new book Hamlet’s GM Screen continues with moments in which characters just might lose it. At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Rob Lightner, the Tradecraft Hut ponders the case of CIA officer David Rush, incarcerated but not so far indicted after being caught with approximately 666 […]

The Hamlet’s GM Screen series continues in the Gaming Hut with tips on paying off player character signature elements. In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken passes the baton, or perhaps bloody stake, to lead designer of the upcoming new Vampire edition, Diogo Nogueira. The Architecture Hut delves into the psychogeographic consequences of […]

Live at Gen Con 2026, Ken and special guest Darcy Ross talk yokai in the 9 Years war, evil sorcerers, Indy food discoveries, Aleister Crowley, convention games and so much more. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd […]