Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Kenneth Hite and Robin D Laws

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

  • 1 hour 17 seconds
    Episode 637: Sausage Apologist

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    The Gaming Hut gets a round table as beloved Patreon backer James Kiley seeks tips on mashing up Pendragon with Call of Cthulhu.

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    At the behest of estimable backer Chad Ward, the Food Hut looks at the role a humble cured meat played in schism and war, in the Affair of the Sausages.

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    Doughty backer Dylan Gault convenes the Architecture Hut for the real story behind the Newmarket Ghost Canal.

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    Finally our chrononaut reveals which Song Dynasty social club he had to edit from history using Ken’s Time Machine.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    The sorrowful solo gamebook Unhappy Birthday at Castle Slogar now dolefully awaits you from the frightening folks of Atlas Games. Packed with maps, riddles and dire dilemmas, it is sure to lure you to a delightfully solitary spiral of gloom!

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    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

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    Brace for more Delta Green Mythos horror with Dead Drops, Arc Dream’s latest bone-chilling anthology of black bag scenarios. From a secret Missouri church to a frozen Alabama town, the top secret terrors keep on unfolding. Acquire the 288 page full color hardback from the Arc Dream store, or purchase, download, rate and review the PDF at DriveThru.

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    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    21 February 2025, 8:30 am
  • 59 minutes 29 seconds
    Episode 636: I Don’t Know the Asparagus

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    In the Gaming Hut we look at the optional scene paradox in adventure writing.

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    The Weapon Hut gives us a rare chance to un-fun ruin, as we debunk claims that debunk the flail.

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    In the Word Hut Robin tests Ken’s knowledge of the often cheeky nicknames given to historical figures.

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    Finally we step into the Eliptony Hut for a look at the recent New Jersey drone flap.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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     Gaming Hut

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    3rd segment

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    4th segment

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    The sorrowful solo gamebook Unhappy Birthday at Castle Slogar now dolefully awaits you from the frightening folks of Atlas Games. Packed with maps, riddles and dire dilemmas, it is sure to lure you to a delightfully solitary spiral of gloom!

    Enigma-KS-Feature4-3Fer-NEWRELEASE.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

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    Brace for more Delta Green Mythos horror with Dead Drops, Arc Dream’s latest bone-chilling anthology of black bag scenarios. From a secret Missouri church to a frozen Alabama town, the top secret terrors keep on unfolding. Acquire the 288 page full color hardback from the Arc Dream store, or purchase, download, rate and review the PDF at DriveThru.

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    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    14 February 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Episode 635: His Cousin Latte Dick

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    In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Tom Abella seeks tips on compiling historical reading lists to players.

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    We don elaborate ruffs in the Tradecraft Hut to profile Jacobean spymaster Robert Cecil.

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    Today we look at them as soulful giants of the sea, but to the medieval mind whales were terrifying, diabolical beasts worthy of treatment in the Monster Hut.

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    Finally the Consulting Occultist looks at collector and art historian Aby Warburg.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    The sorrowful solo gamebook Unhappy Birthday at Castle Slogar now dolefully awaits you from the frightening folks of Atlas Games. Packed with maps, riddles and dire dilemmas, it is sure to lure you to a delightfully solitary spiral of gloom!

    Enigma-KS-Feature4-3Fer-NEWRELEASE.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    7 February 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    Episode 634: Jurisdiction Over Pretend Securities

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    In the Gaming Hut beloved Patreon backer Joshua Randall seeks tips on setting up a new campaign for success.

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    Our latest Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else segment features Ken’s chat with Daniel Harms, author of The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana  and editor of the definitive edition of the 19th century American grimoire The Long-Lost Friend.

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    Robin provides a guide to the variable realm of Internet Movie Database ratings in the Cinema Hut.

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    Finally the Conspiracy Corner shines a light on the Prime Bank Securities con, a fraud with a conspiratorial worldview that ensnares its practitioners.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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     Gaming Hut

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    2nd segment

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    3rd segment

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    4th segment

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

    Robin-Spacer.png

    The sorrowful solo gamebook Unhappy Birthday at Castle Slogar now dolefully awaits you from the frightening folks of Atlas Games. Packed with maps, riddles and dire dilemmas, it is sure to lure you to a delightfully solitary spiral of gloom!

    Enigma-KS-Feature4-3Fer-NEWRELEASE.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    31 January 2025, 8:30 am
  • 57 minutes 56 seconds
    Episode 633: Barrel Full of Outlaw

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    In the Gaming Hut, beloved Patreon backer Jörgen Blomberg suggests that there’s something F20 games handle even worse than falling damage—injuries from exposure. We brave the chill with our thoughts on the subject.

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    Not all western folk heroes became folk heroes. The Crime Blotter looks at the case of robber and ambusher Big Nose George Parrott, who in a gruesome twist of fate became… something else.

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    Fun with Science plumbs two marine mysteries brought to our attention by estimable backer David Millians: a mysterious deep sea communication and the pallid amphipod known as the sweetheart of darkness.

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    Finally Ken’s Time Machine peers into the timeline where a 10 year old Abraham Lincoln succumbed to his injuries after being kicked by a  horse.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    The sorrowful solo gamebook Unhappy Birthday at Castle Slogar now dolefully awaits you from the frightening folks of Atlas Games. Packed with maps, riddles and dire dilemmas, it is sure to lure you to a delightfully solitary spiral of gloom!

    Enigma-KS-Feature4-3Fer-NEWRELEASE.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    24 January 2025, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    Episode 632: An American is Being Wrong

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    At the behest of beloved Patreon backer Charles Picard, the Gaming Hut ponders cultural diaspora in F20 settings.

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    The Archaeology Hut looks at a recent discovery in Denmark, an Iron Age house built on a foundation of weapons and armor.

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    Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else features our chat with Nerdburger Games’ Craig Campbell, designer of Capers and Good Strong Hands.

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    Finally the Eliptony Hut peers at the legendary and murky Rendlesham Forest UFO incident.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    Stop gazing lovingly at that seed catalogue and start pre-ordering Vicious Gardens from Atlas Games. This contemporary, distinctive, choice driven card game combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.

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    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    17 January 2025, 8:30 am
  • 55 minutes 19 seconds
    Episode 631: A Vestigial Nub

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    In the Gaming Hut Robin discusses his recently concluded Golden Age DC superheroes versus the Cthulhu mythos game.

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    Travel Advisory recalls our visit to the British Museum’s current Silk Roads exhibition.

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    If we’re thinking about stuff that happened while we were in London, longtime listeners know what that means: Ken’s Bookshelf lovingly lists the purchases our hero made at Treadwell’s and Foyles.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    Stop gazing lovingly at that seed catalogue and start pre-ordering Vicious Gardens from Atlas Games. This contemporary, distinctive, choice driven card game combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.

    Vicious-Gardens.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    10 January 2025, 8:30 am
  • 47 minutes 4 seconds
    Episode 630: Live at Dragonmeet 2024

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    As is our seasonal custom, we close our year with a live episode recorded at London’s Dragonmeet. At the show’s final outing in its longtime Hammersmith Novotel venue, Ken pulls off a revolutionary nerdtrope, and we field questions on the dangers of Tarot deck accumulation, the world’s ineluctable spiral into chaos, and tricking Brussels sprouts into being delicious.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

    Robin-Spacer.png

    Stop gazing lovingly at that seed catalogue and start pre-ordering Vicious Gardens from Atlas Games. This contemporary, distinctive, choice driven card game combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.

    Vicious-Gardens.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    20 December 2024, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Episode 629: Laugh With You Near Them

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    Make sure your ropes are securely fastened as the Gaming Hut asks: have we been doing falling damage wrong?

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    In Ken and/or Robin Talk To Someone Else, we talk to tabletop game designer of DIE: the Roleplaying Game fame (and sure, comics writer extraordinaire) Kieron Gillen.

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    The Mythology Hut gets festive for an encounter with the krampus, demonic dispenser of jolly Yuletide punishment.

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    Finally the Consulting Occultist raps tables and psychically excites the zither for a look at Victorian spiritualist William Stainton Moses.

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    Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon!

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

    Robin-Spacer.png

    Stop gazing lovingly at that seed catalogue and start pre-ordering Vicious Gardens from Atlas Games. This contemporary, distinctive, choice driven card game combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.

    Vicious-Gardens.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    13 December 2024, 8:30 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Episode 628: July 1st Seems Good Enough

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    In The Business of Gaming we check in on the state of crowdfunding through the lens of the recently concluded Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition campaign.

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    There are ants, ants, ants as big as well they’re quite small really but they’ve nearly completed a program of global conquest so Fun With Science takes a look at their supercolony wars.

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    Grab some cotton candy or a corn dog as the Word Hut offers a course on 1920s and 30s carnival slang.

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    Finally, at the behest of beloved Patreon backer Paul S. Enns, Ken’s Time Machine glimpses the dark timeline where an 1866 proposal by a US Congressman to annex the British North American colonies actually went somewhere, depriving Canada of its origin story and the world of Canada.

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    Our Patreon-backed Letterboxd list of all films mentioned on the show is now up and running.

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    Stop gazing lovingly at that seed catalogue and start pre-ordering Vicious Gardens from Atlas Games. This contemporary, distinctive, choice driven card game combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.

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    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

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    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

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    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    6 December 2024, 8:30 am
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    Episode 627: The Dream of All Arts

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    Ready your picks and jimmies as the Gaming Hut seeks fail forwards for one of the trickiest cases of all, the locked door.

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    In Ken and/or Robin Talk to Someone Else, Ken (and some crows) talk to fantasy, horror and SF writer Molly Tanzer.

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    The Culture Hut covers the enigmatic, influential and Eliptony-adjacent theater experimenter Jerzy Grotowski.

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    Finally the Eliptony Hut examines the hoaxed artifacts known as the Michigan relics.

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    Also check out the Goodreads list of books mentioned on the show.

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    Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.

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    Stop gazing lovingly at that seed catalogue and start pre-ordering Vicious Gardens from Atlas Games. This contemporary, distinctive, choice driven card game combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest plants, and sabotage others in a cut-throat competition.

    Vicious-Gardens.png

    A global mythos conspiracy ensnares the player characters in The Borellus Connection, Pelgrane Press’ new Fall of DELTA Green mega-campaign by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite. Journey in the guise of federal narcotics agents to Saigon, Beirut, Prague and Bozukepe. Buy it for your GM and demand that she run it today!

    Borellus.png

    Don your pallid mask and get all the Ken, Carcosa, and footnotes you require now that Arc Dream’s The King in Yellow: Annotated Edition is now available in paperback and ebook formats. With stunning art by Samuel Araya, this lavish tome of terror earns a space on any shelf.

    King-In-Annotated.png

    Turn your digital dials to Gen Con TV, The Best Four Days in Gaming – All Year Long. Entirely free and streaming your way on Twitch, Gen Con TV offers actual plays, reviews, dramatized gaming shorts, minis painting and its flagship show, Table Talk, beaming to you Fridays at 2 pm with polyhedral news you’re dying to use.

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    29 November 2024, 8:30 am
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