Show Notes
The Gaming Hut’s Hamlet’s GM Screen series continues with the handoff, the moment when the players deal with the scenario’s initial choices. In the Horror Hut we enter a hazy borderland, attempting to pin down the distinction between liminal and reality horror. How to Write Good asks when, if ever, one should use the word […]
More from 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 […]
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 […]