{"id":1071,"date":"2016-04-01T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:09:30","slug":"episode-184-snorting-the-hand-of-vecna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-184-snorting-the-hand-of-vecna\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 184: Snorting the Hand of Vecna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/kenandrobin.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/themes\/kartas\/images\/abe_colour.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>We start with <strong>Ask Ken and Robin<\/strong>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kenandrobin\">Patreon<\/a> supporter Ross Ireland asks us to tell our best crazy game stories.<\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s off to the <strong>History Hut<\/strong> to consider the troubled Presidency of a guy who really couldn&#8217;t get a Supreme Court nominee approved, John Tyler.<\/p>\n<p>In our inaugural edition of <strong>Tell Me More<\/strong>, three items from Ken and Robin Consume Media, as approved by our patrons over on the Patreon, get expanded treatment: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1OYGoC2\"><em>The Secret History of Wonder Woman<\/em><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Uqd7r3\">Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible<\/a>, and Deadpool.<\/p>\n<p>Finally current events have again conspired to provide us with one of those fabled <strong>Nerdtropes in the News<\/strong>. What strangeness links the International Order of St Hubertus with the Marfa Lights?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Bend reality to your will, but be ready to pay the price, as Atlas Games&#8217; Unknown Armies bubbles up from the supernatural underground for a weird and majestic <a href=\"http:\/\/atlas-games.com\/in\/kickstartua3\/\">new Kickstarter campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlas-games.com\/in\/kickstartua3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/unknown-armies-third-edition-no-book.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ken fans who did not partake of the Kickstarter can now sink their fangs into the general release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/?p=7141\"><em>Dracula Dossier<\/em><\/a> from Pelgrane Press, consisting of the <em>Director&#8217;s Handbook<\/em> and <em>Dracula Unredacted<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/?p=7141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-h4RPUWZu1ZQ\/Vcy78-wob7I\/AAAAAAAAOVs\/9Iv0kZThYrc\/w150-h52-no\/Logo_red_150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a> If you\u2019re like every roleplayer we know, you strive to outshine others in showing your love of dice. Well, now you can arouse the envy of friends and foes alike with Askfageln\u2019s dazzling coffee table photo art book dedicated to all things pipped and many-sided, <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/1LoutTx\">Dice: Rendezvous with Randomness<\/a>. Luxuriate in the photo artistry of Mans Danneman. Grab the book or gorgeous prints through their <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/1LoutTx\">Kickstarter<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/1LoutTx\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dice_KaR.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> In a move that surely violates someone&#8217;s security clearance, this episode is also brought to you by our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/\">Arc Dream Publishing<\/a>. The Kickstarter for <em>Delta Green: the Roleplaying Game<\/em> has come to an end, but don&#8217;t let that stop you from indulging your fever for this classic game, or that pinnacle of the Cthulhu game zine world, <em>The Unspeakable Oath<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-mBeGgH1Tw5U\/Vh-3inm0soI\/AAAAAAAAPKk\/mLcXoz2VkZU\/s150-no\/DGRPG%2Bthumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5047\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1071-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20184.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20184.mp3\">https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20184.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken And Robin Talk About Stuff Episode 184.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1071-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20184.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20184.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start with Ask Ken and Robin, as Patreon supporter Ross Ireland asks us to tell our best crazy game stories. Then it&#8217;s off to the History Hut to consider the troubled Presidency of a guy who really couldn&#8217;t get a Supreme Court nominee approved, John Tyler. In our inaugural edition of Tell Me More, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,98,109,94,99,19,96,100,49,102,92,101,95,97],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ask-ken-and-robin","tag-behemoth","tag-count-von-sporck","tag-crazy-games","tag-deadpool","tag-history-hut","tag-john-tyler","tag-marfa-lights","tag-nerdtrope-cards-in-the-news","tag-order-of-st-hubertus","tag-tell-me-more","tag-texas","tag-war-stories","tag-wonder-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}