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April 30, 2015
April 10, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: So Bad the Quakers Riot
In the latest episode of our hyper-compressed podcast, Ken and I talk tone, Fomenko's chronology, banished phrases and John Murray Spear.
April 03, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Glam, Baby
In the latest installment of our highly dramatic podcast, Ken and I talk GMing Hillfolk, Chandragupta Maurya, socially conscious RPGs, and ransomed Michelangelo letters.
March 27, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Wielding Fennel Without Proper Church Authority
In the latest episode of our dream-stalking podcast, Ken and I talk imaginary disease etiologies, Feng Shui movies, introducing settings, and the good walkers.
March 20, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Underground Subterranean Fort
In the latest episode of our well-excavated podcast, Ken and I talk overly real CGI, us as scared kids, the Toronto mystery tunnel and Charlemagne vs. Irminsul.
March 13, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Helping People Steal Concrete
In the latest episode of their revelatory podcast, Ken and Robin talk F20 entheogens, Rahm’s run-off, status quo first acts, and Goetia.
March 06, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: Regional Resentments of Canadian Mollusks
In the latest episode of our ENnie-winning podcast, Ken and I talk headline ripping, Igor Gouzenko, heroic surveyors and George Hunt Williamson.
February 27, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: How to Alert the Occult Police
In the latest episode of their ENnie-winning podcast, Ken and Robin talk GM/player scenario collaboration, crime & upward mobility, hallucinations, and Ken’s Frisco book raid.
February 26, 2015
February 24, 2015
A Note to Middle and High School Teachers
This is a request for understanding and courtesy addressed to pre-secondary and secondary teachers.
Don’t assign projects requiring your students to contact creative professionals to ask for a chunk of their time. You don’t mean it to be, but this is presumptuous, and puts the kids in an awkward position. For creators, time is the precious resource we must all fight to preserve. I get more requests to give my time to academic projects than I can fulfill. I do take part in a few of them but most have to go by the wayside because I barely have the time to complete my professional, paying work. The same holds true, I am sure, for experts or notables in any number of other fields. Even taking the time to say no without seeming to slap the inquiring student down can be taxing. When contacted by an adult academic or teacher at least my quick, polite refusal or failure to respond will be taken for what it’s worth.
In the case of younger students I’m surprised that school policies don’t prevent this on safety grounds. Having minors send their contact info to adults they don’t know is maybe not the greatest idea.
If you are a young student who has made an approach like this as part of an assignment, I don’t want you to feel bad about it. It’s the teacher who should know this, not you.
This happens often enough that I’m saving my latest reply to use as boilerplate. Fellow creators, feel free to protect your own time by clipping and saving for your own use.
One of the big facts about life as a professional creator is that you have to be very protective of your time, concentrating on paying work. I'm sorry to say that your teacher, I'm sure with the very best intentions, has put you in a bit of an unfair position by asking you to impose on people who work in a field that interests you. I'm sure I'm not the only creator who feels bad about having to turn these requests down, but has to nonetheless.
I'd be grateful if you could please forward this reply to your teacher.
February 20, 2015
Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff: The Heavy Hand of the Fourth Wall
In the latest episode of our ENnie-winning podcast, Ken and I talk historical script immunity, eggshell boats, gotcha traps and 2014's best movies.
February 19, 2015
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