Episode 245: Floaty McBeercan
June 9th, 2017 | Robin
A guy in a hat was going to tell us what was in the Gaming Hut this week, but then one of your PCs just shot him with a crossbow. That leaves us to figure out what to do when the players kill off their information sources.
In the Book Hut, Patreon backer Andy Young asks us to name the essential reference books for any KARTAS listener’s library.
Backer Frank Turfler Jr. uses Ask Ken and Robin to seek the secrets of the prodigious Hitean memory. Can we all learn his tricks, or would that require overly expensive multiclassing?
Finally the Eliptony Hut goes to the cottage, dipping its toes off the dock into a lovely lake, loch or bay as backers Darin DuMez and Doc Cross team up to demand some lake monster sightings.
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In Unknown Armies, Atlas Games’ modern-day, occult roleplaying game, you play the heroically broken people who conspire to fix the world. That conspiracy just got easier, with the arrival of the game on store shelves near you! 
Want to plunge headlong into Lovecraftian mystery, but lack a gaming group? Want to introduce a friend or loved one to the roleplaying hobby? GUMSHOE One-2-One has come to your rescue! Find this new system by some guy named Robin D. Laws, in the line’s flagship title, Cthulhu Confidential. Now shipping at the Pelgrane Press store. 
Saddle up! Askfageln’s Western is now shooting it out at the Kickstarter corral! Play desperate desperadoes, merciless mercenaries, courageous native warriors and brimstone-tinged preachers in a time and place in need of heroes.
John Scott Tynes’ Puppetland is ready to knock the stuffing out of a game store near you in its gorgeous new full-color hardcover edition. Join the good folks at Arc Dream in battling the horrific forces of Punch the Maker-Killer! 
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Would KARTAS get benefits from posting Amazon links to the recommended books? Asking for a lazy, lazy friend.
There’s a great Geomatria calculator here: http://www.gematrix.org/
It does English, Latin and Hebrew and gives other words with the same values. For example, Ken And Robin Talk About Stuff has the value 1167, the same as Mother of All Things Beautiful, I Really Meant It And I Still Do, and Unbearable Egocentricity (http://www.gematrix.org/?word=Ken+And+Robin+Talk+About+Stuff).
Such a great book hut. Thanks guys!
A reading list for the book hut wild be very much appreciated.
I know it seems like an easy thing, but merging two lists crosses the line into a task we don’t have the time budget for. Perhaps one day we’ll hit that coveted show notes level on the Patreon.
trying to find an electronic edition of brewer’s dictionary of phrase and fable. do you have a link on your computer.
I took the liberty of assembling a list of the works referenced.
Classic reference texts that you do want to have in printed form and be able to browse
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Historical Atlas by Colin McEvedy
Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann: The Anchor Atlas of World History
Colin McEvedy: Century World History Fact Finder
William Langer/Peter Stearns: The Encyclopedia of World History
Encyclopedia of Military History
GURPS Books
DePuy’s Military History (?)
Diagram Group: Weapons: An International Encyclopedia From 5000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
Left Field Items
The Complete Works of Charles Fort
Bill Whitcomb: The Magician’s Companion: A Practical & Encyclopedic Guide to Magical & Religious Symbolism
SAS Survival Handbook
Howdunit series
Heiram Collins Haydn: The Thesaurus of Book Digests
David Godwin: Godwin’s cabalistic encyclopedia
You are a prince among men! I was just coming back hear to take a relisten, after looking at Ken’s 2002 article about research (spoiler: he really likes Google).
What a great read – I’ll be sharing with my friends. This is appreciated!
Great content.