Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

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 the free spirit. Finally at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Jason Thompson the Consulting Occultist profiles short-lived mystical novelist Rene Daumal. 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 list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running. Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show. Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic. Rejoice, for the prophecy is fulfilled! The Ars Magica Definitive Edition, in all of its arcane glory, can now be ordered from Atlas Games. Dispatch your most reliable grog to acquire this most splendid of tomes today. Mapheads assemble! Profantasy Software’s Kickstarter for its RPG mapping tools is now underway. Bring Campaign Cartographer, City Designer and Dungeon Designer to a new state of the art with random generation, faster display, intuitive workflow and a context-sensitive sidebar. As our darkened globe spins through the eternal night, the lasting legacy of the human race is nothing but a scream drowned out by the roar of destiny. This is your last chance to show the cosmos what it means to be human: the will to fight. Delta Green: The Millennium lays bare Delta Green’s dark and desperate past. It reaches into the corpse of the 20th century and digs deep, mapping in blood the terrain of our twisted pulp apocalypse. Sign up to be notified of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for The American Crisis: Dark and Bloody Ground at YourDadWillLoveThis.com. Download a free copy of the Nations & Cannons core rules using code KENROBIN.

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 Cinema Hut covers gameable titles from the most recent run of the Robin and Valerie International Film Festival. Finally Ken’s Time Machine peers into the alternate timeline where key ballot boxes weren’t thrown into the river and William Randolph Hearst became New York City mayor. 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 list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running. Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show. Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic. Rejoice, for the prophecy is fulfilled! The Ars Magica Definitive Edition, in all of its arcane glory, can now be ordered from Atlas Games. Dispatch your most reliable grog to acquire this most splendid of tomes today. Mapheads assemble! Profantasy Software’s Kickstarter for its RPG mapping tools is now underway. Bring Campaign Cartographer, City Designer and Dungeon Designer to a new state of the art with random generation, faster display, intuitive workflow and a context-sensitive sidebar. As our darkened globe spins through the eternal night, the lasting legacy of the human race is nothing but a scream drowned out by the roar of destiny. This is your last chance to show the cosmos what it means to be human: the will to fight. Delta Green: The Millennium lays bare Delta Green’s dark and desperate past. It reaches into the corpse of the 20th century and digs deep, mapping in blood the terrain of our twisted pulp apocalypse. Sign up to be notified of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for The American Crisis: Dark and Bloody Ground at YourDadWillLoveThis.com. Download a free copy of the Nations & Cannons core rules using code KENROBIN.

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 allow Ken to go nuts at them? Ken’s Bookshelf has the answers. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Rejoice, for the prophecy is fulfilled! The Ars Magica Definitive Edition, in all of its arcane glory, can now be ordered from Atlas Games. Dispatch your most reliable grog to acquire this most splendid of tomes today. Mapheads assemble! Profantasy Software’s Kickstarter for its RPG mapping tools is now underway. Bring Campaign Cartographer, City Designer and Dungeon Designer to a new state of the art with random generation, faster display, intuitive workflow and a context-sensitive sidebar. As our darkened globe spins through the eternal night, the lasting legacy of the human race is nothing but a scream drowned out by the roar of destiny. This is your last chance to show the cosmos what it means to be human: the will to fight. Delta Green: The Millennium lays bare Delta Green’s dark and desperate past. It reaches into the corpse of the 20th century and digs deep, mapping in blood the terrain of our twisted pulp apocalypse. Sign up to be notified of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for The American Crisis: Dark and Bloody Ground at YourDadWillLoveThis.com. Download a free copy of the Nations & Cannons core rules using code KENROBIN.

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 KARTAS Patreon! Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running. Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show. Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic. Rejoice, for the prophecy is fulfilled! The Ars Magica Definitive Edition, in all of its arcane glory, can now be ordered from Atlas Games. Dispatch your most reliable grog to acquire this most splendid of tomes today. Mapheads assemble! Profantasy Software’s Kickstarter for its RPG mapping tools is now underway. Bring Campaign Cartographer, City Designer and Dungeon Designer to a new state of the art with random generation, faster display, intuitive workflow and a context-sensitive sidebar. As our darkened globe spins through the eternal night, the lasting legacy of the human race is nothing but a scream drowned out by the roar of destiny. This is your last chance to show the cosmos what it means to be human: the will to fight. Delta Green: The Millennium lays bare Delta Green’s dark and desperate past. It reaches into the corpse of the 20th century and digs deep, mapping in blood the terrain of our twisted pulp apocalypse. Sign up to be notified of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for The American Crisis: Dark and Bloody Ground at YourDadWillLoveThis.com. Download a free copy of the Nations & Cannons core rules using code KENROBIN.

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 Missing Month and Beef. Finally the Conspiracy Corner looks into not one but two Alaska volcano hoaxes. 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 list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running. Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show. Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic. Rejoice, for the prophecy is fulfilled! The Ars Magica Definitive Edition, in all of its arcane glory, can now be ordered from Atlas Games. Dispatch your most reliable grog to acquire this most splendid of tomes today. Hamlet’s GM Screen, Robin’s book applying exquisitely diagrammed story analysis to classic moments at the gaming table, can now be ordered from Pelgrane Press. Turn your bringdowns into gratifications with this follow-up to the classic Hamlet’s Hit Points. The play The King in Yellow has haunted imaginations like a dirge since its first appearance in 1895. Now ask it to predict the future and run your life with Arc Dream’s King in Yellow tarot deck. Daniel Harms and John Scott Tynes, famous clairvoyants, divined the forms and portents of this Carcosan deck. Painter Kurt Komoda, in a fevered fugue of inspiration, reproduced designs thought long lost. Add it now to your accursed Arc Dream shopping cart. Sign up to be notified of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for The American Crisis: Dark and Bloody Ground at YourDadWillLoveThis.com. Download a free copy of the Nations & Cannons core rules using code KENROBIN.