{"id":126,"date":"2012-11-06T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T13:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.com\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2015-08-20T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:25:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff is the podcast of authors and game designers Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws. Stuff talked about includes hobby gaming, history, occultism, chrono-travel, food, cinema, narrative, art, politics, food, maps, Cthulhiana, and in fact any matter subject to jocular yet penetrating erudition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robin-d-laws.blogspot.com\"><strong>Robin D. Laws<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0designed the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying system, including such games as\u00a0<em>The Esoterrorists<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Ashen Stars<\/em>. Feng Shui 2, his reboot of his classic action movie roleplaying game, can now be found in all its glory in a friendly game store near you. <em>Hillfolk<\/em>, his game of\u00a0riveting personal conflict, won the 2014 Diana Jones Award and the Indie RPG Award for Indie Game of the Year.\u00a0Recent highlights of his nine books of fiction are\u00a0<em>New Tales of the Yellow Sign<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Blood of the City<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Worldwound Gambit.\u00a0<\/em>As Creative Director of Stone Skin Press he edited such fiction anthologies as\u00a0<em>The New Hero<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Shotguns v. Cthulhu<\/em>, and<em>The Lion and the Aardvark: Aesop&#8217;s New Fables<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/princeofcairo.livejournal.com\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Kenneth Hite<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> has designed, written, or co-authored more than 70 roleplaying games and supplements, including the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Star Trek Roleplaying Game, GURPS Infinite Worlds, Day After Ragnarok, Trail Of Cthulhu,<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Night\u2019s Black Agents<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Outside gaming, his works include <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Tour de Lovecraft: the Tales, Cthulhu 101, Zombies 101, Where the Deep Ones Are,<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> and the graphic illustrated version of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>The Complete Idiot\u2019s Guide to U.S. History. <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">He writes the \u201cLost in Lovecraft\u201d column for <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Weird Tales<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> magazine, and his essays and criticism have also appeared in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Dragon <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Magazine, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Games Quarterly<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Magazine, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>National Review, Amazing Stories,<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> and in anthologies from Greenwood Press, Ben Bella Press, and MIT Press. He lives in Chicago with his wife Sheila, two cats, and many, many books<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff is the podcast of authors and game designers Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws. Stuff talked about includes hobby gaming, history, occultism, chrono-travel, food, cinema, narrative, art, politics, food, maps, Cthulhiana, and in fact any matter subject to jocular yet penetrating erudition. Robin D. 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