{"id":1268,"date":"2017-03-10T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:09:35","slug":"episode-232-cat-hamlet-half-elf-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-232-cat-hamlet-half-elf-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 232: Cat Hamlet Half-Elf Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Banner-232.png\" \/><br \/>\nThe <strong>Gaming Hut<\/strong> may seem friendly and bucolic, but this time it\u2019s full of danger, as we riff a cast of conspiratorial small town NPCs.<\/p>\n<p>Take your seat and suppress your coughing as the <strong>Culture Hut<\/strong> gets classical. Patreon backer Noel Warford asks us for the scoop on such theosophically influenced composers as Henry Cowell, Dane Rudhyar and Leo Ornstein.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Ask Ken and Robin<\/strong>, Patreon backer Ronan Kennedy seeks advice on running an NPC as a member of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Then we enter the<strong> Eliptony Hut<\/strong>, which has been outfitted with an orgone accumulator for our discussion of Wilhelm Reich.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kenandrobin\">Support the KARTAS Patreon<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Snag Ken and Robin merchandise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teepublic.com\/user\/kenrobin\">at TeePublic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Wish to introduce innocent children to the horror of the Mythos, while remaining on budget? Atlas Games is here to affordably twist young minds with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-games.com\/in\/cthulhu4kids\/\">buy two, get one free deal<\/a> on Ken&#8217;s Mini Mythos line of childrens&#8217; book parodies: <em>Where the Deep Ones Are, Goodnight Azathoth, Cliffourd the Big Red God<\/em>, and<em> Antarctic Express<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-games.com\/in\/cthulhu4kids\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/KARTAS-Mini-Mythos.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> 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\u2019s flagship title, <em>Cthulhu Confidential<\/em>. 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Take your seat and suppress your coughing as the Culture Hut gets classical. Patreon backer Noel Warford asks us for the scoop on such theosophically influenced composers as Henry Cowell, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,48,404,30,10,105,406,403,315,336,407,405,401,402,408],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ask-ken-and-robin","tag-culture-hut","tag-dane-rudhyar","tag-eliptony-hut","tag-gaming-hut","tag-gmcs","tag-gmcs-as-party-members","tag-henry-cowell","tag-horror","tag-music","tag-orgone","tag-ruth-crawford","tag-small-town-gmcs","tag-theosophy","tag-wilhelm-reich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}