Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff · Kenneth Hite and Robin D Laws

Three Airstrikes, Total

April 25, 2025·54 min·5 clips
What if the airstrike you called forces you to race against time to avoid being caught in your own napalm?
Ken and Robin discuss game design techniques for making off-screen battles suspenseful, explore the history of Milton Bradley and board games, analyze journey narratives in RPGs, and delve into the 1955 Hopkinsville Goblin UFO case with gaming applications.

As heard by us

A brisk mix of game history, structure, and one very strange goblin.

Ken and Robin move from Skipping the Big Battle into Milton Bradley the Person, Journey Narratives, and the Hopkinsville Goblin, so the episode feels like a conversation across design, structure, and folklore rather than a tidy topic list.

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Why you'd press play

For when you want board-game history with your goblin lore.

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