{"id":1336,"date":"2017-06-23T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T08:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:09:37","slug":"episode-247-so-fair-it-shines-as-a-marketing-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/episode-247-so-fair-it-shines-as-a-marketing-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 247: So Fair It Shines as a Marketing Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Banner247.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stare! Stare my friends, into the most psychically destablizing hat of all. For this week <strong>Among My Many Hats<\/strong> has the Yellow Sign neatly embroidered upon it, and you know what that means: Robin&#8217;s new GUMSHOE project for Pelgrane Press, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/2tPEZeX\">The Yellow King Roleplaying Game<\/a><\/em>, is Kickstarting now. Ken hangs onto his last Composure point as he asks Robin all about it.<\/p>\n<p>At the triple command of Patreon backer Rafael Pabst, the <strong>Book Hut<\/strong> takes a look at the mythic work of Robert Graves.<\/p>\n<p>A simple yet elusive question confronts us in the <strong>Gaming Hut<\/strong>. Half-elves: what&#8217;s their deal?<\/p>\n<p>Finally Patreon backer Tim Vert knows who he\u2019s gonna call. He asks the <strong>Consulting Occultist<\/strong> to tell us all about Harry Houdini\u2019s ghostbusters.<\/p>\n<p>Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kenandrobin\">Support for 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>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/atlas-games.com\/unknownarmies\/\">Unknown Armies<\/a><\/em>, Atlas Games\u2019 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! <a href=\"http:\/\/atlas-games.com\/unknownarmies\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"class\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Unknown-Armies-image.png\" width=\"359\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The book has been written. <\/i><i>The book has been read. <\/i><i>Now it rewrites you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Across time it spreads, creating dread new realities. <\/i><i>And you\u2019re in all of them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Pelgrane Press is terrified to announce that Robin\u2019s epic new GUMSHOE project, <em>The Yellow King Roleplaying Game<\/em>, is now live on Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/2tPEZeX\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TYKRPG-KARTAS-banner.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saddle up! Askfageln\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1152089861\/western-the-roleplaying-game\">Western<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1152089861\/western-the-roleplaying-game\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WE4_western_is_coming.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> John Scott Tynes\u2019 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpgnow.com\/product\/186347\/Puppetland?affiliate_id=48458\">Puppetland<\/a><\/em> 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! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpgnow.com\/product\/186347\/Puppetland?affiliate_id=48458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Puppetland-cover-2016.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4899\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1336-1\" 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%20247.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20247.mp3\">https:\/\/kenandrobin.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/media\/Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20247.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 247.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1336-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%20247.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ken%20And%20Robin%20Talk%20About%20Stuff%20Episode%20247.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stare! Stare my friends, into the most psychically destablizing hat of all. For this week Among My Many Hats has the Yellow Sign neatly embroidered upon it, and you know what that means: Robin&#8217;s new GUMSHOE project for Pelgrane Press, The Yellow King Roleplaying Game, is Kickstarting now. Ken hangs onto his last Composure point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4,6,10,506,507,505,497,371],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-among-my-many-hats","tag-book-hut","tag-consulting-occultist","tag-gaming-hut","tag-half-elves","tag-harry-houdini","tag-robert-graves","tag-the-yellow-king-roleplaying-game","tag-yellow-king-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","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=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}