In the latest episode of our 2016 ENnie-nominated podcast, Ken and I talk Tsan-Chan, Westerns 201, pre-nuclear steel, and Trois-Echelles.
July 15, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Not That That’s What Time Travelers Say
In the latest episode of our 2016 ENnie-nominated podcast, Ken and I talk Tsan-Chan, Westerns 201, pre-nuclear steel, and Trois-Echelles.
July 11, 2016
Feng Shui 2, KARTAS and More at the ENnies Voting Booth
The electronic voting booth for the 2016 is now open for business. If you were planning to support Feng Shui 2, gather your chi for its nominations in five categories: Best Game, Best Setting, Best Rules, Best Aid/Accessory, and Product of the Year.
The sagacious voter will also note a Best Podcast nomination for Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, and Page XX for Best Webzine.
Or if your tastes run toward the literary and vampiric, you might spot a nomination or five for my boon compadres at Pelgrane Press and their Dracula Dossier.
July 08, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Stab Them in the Peninsula
In the latest episode of our ENnie-nominated podcast, Ken and I talk scenario climaxes, Edward Barton, AI screenwriting, and Nixon unpardoned.
July 01, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Obviously She Fought Radium Ghosts
In the latest episode of our epoch-making podcast, Ken and I talk Bubblegumshoe, playing historical figures, and Ken’s New England book raid.
June 24, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Conspicuously Non-Assassinated
In the latest episode of our irrepressibly upbeat podcast, Ken and I talk playing the beat cycle, Yakov Blumkin, breaking the fourth wall and the Business Plot.
June 17, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: All Its Guns In Norman Rockwell
In the latest episode of our clock-melting podcast, Ken and I talk investigative scenario hard parts, Italian horror cinema, surrealist Communism, and past life regression.
June 10, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Knocking Off Early For Gin and Lemonade
In the latest episode of our rugged yet avalanche-threatened podcast, Ken and I talk environmental obstacles, The Cthulhu Wars, Toynbee tiles, and Ken’s claim to be from Porlock.
June 06, 2016
Me and the Kraken
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be doing the guest thing at The Kraken at the Schloss Neuhausen in Germany this October 7th to 10th. Billed not as a convention but a gaming retreat, the event offers grown-up, all-inclusive amenities to go with its games and panels. It unfolds primarily in English and, I am now told in an exciting update, still actually has a few unsold slots left. Those unable to attend will be able to enjoy its panels when they are later posted as Internet videos.
June 03, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Bonaparte Eyes
In the latest episode of their always authentic podcast, Ken and Robin talk Greg Stafford, occupied Istanbul, fake stock moments and the Westfield Watcher.
May 27, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Emulating a Genre That Doesn't Exist
In the latest episode of our densely speciated podcast, Ken and I talk rules taxonomy, getting Trumped, Tell Me More, and Alan Moore, occultist.
May 20, 2016
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: : In Case I Trip Over a Sand Dune
In the latest episode of their rootin’, tootin’ podcast, Ken and Robin talk things they used to say, the Dreyfus Affair, Westerns 101, and peasant revolts.
May 13, 2016
Why You Want To Hear From Fresh Voices on an Industry Panel
I don’t run Gen Con or its Industry Insider panel track.If I did, I would greatly care about the paying customers drawn to the convention by this programming.
I would not particularly concern myself with the desires of the folks who qualify to speak on its panels. They belong to a very large pool of people, too large for the program to accommodate. The goal of any programming track is not to assign status to panelists, but to serve the audience.
Attendees who make a specific point of going to multiple Industry Insider events more often than not are hoping to break into the industry themselves.
They are better served by newer or emerging voices who did that recently than by those of us who did it years ago, when conditions were completely different.
Sure, we graybeards can give you the immutable basics.
Let me do that right now:
- Follow the project specs.
- Be on time.
- Be good.
There you go. That’s basically it.
But the stuff about winning notice and getting assignments keeps changing, at a faster rate than ever before.
Though he would seem to be a foremost expert on it, Ed Greenwood can’t tell you how to be Ed Greenwood. That’s because the Ed Greenwood spot is already occupied, by this guy named Ed Greenwood.
Panelists with somewhat less grey beards, or heaven forfend no beards at all, have the fresher scoop. While we weren’t looking, the biz became way too big to have heard of everyone. The name who broke in under your radar may be able to show you how to do the same.
And if you’re wondering what Ken is doing amid a slate of supposed whippersnappers, check out his photo on the Gen Con page. Clearly he’s used his famous time machine to bring a puppyish Ken from 1992 to labor on his panels, while the 2016 version kicks back in the Omni bar. Now that’s the way to do it!
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Boy Meets Manifestation
In the latest episode of our shining trapezohedral podcast, Ken and I talk treacherous trust, Starry Wisdom, M. R. James and non-standard UFO conspiracies.
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