Robin Laws

i did not in the end oh

that's that was ross's yeah ross beat you out for that uh i'm probably gonna do robin laws uh robin's loss of good game mastering and hamlet's hit points because they're they're not that long so we can get two in there and it'll just be your basic book club uh set up where it's like okay yeah at this time we're all gonna get on discord and talk about we'll have read chapters one through eight and we'll drink some red wine and uh talk about what we thought about hamlet's hit points

Yeah.

Those are the two I'm doing.

And Jean-Francois Paradis.

Welcome back once again to Ken and or Robin talk to someone else.

And today I, Ken, am talking to Glyza Champion, who is an emerging game designer and not just any emerging game designer, a Diana Jones Award certified emerging game designer, best kind of emerging game designer.

Yeah.

This is writer and game designer Robin D.

Laws.

And this is game designer and writer Kenneth Haidt.

And this is our podcast, Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.

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Stuff we're here to talk about in this episode include...

And instead of the benevolent gaze of Peter Frampton coming alive, we have the melancholy Dane feigning madness.

Or is he? Question mark.

Um, if you've, if you've been with Archon for a while, you may have heard me say core activity before.

Uh, this is a term coined by Robin Laws, I believe, and the It basically breaks down to the question, you know, well, who are we, what are we doing and why in a role play game.

Famously, uh, several games do not do this well.

Um, Dungeons & Dragons still kind of struggles with it to a degree, uh, which is the, the most common, you know, form of, of role playing in Dungeons & Dragons.

[laughs] Anyway.

Uh, I did give a copy of the clothbound one, give a copy to Robin Laws.

Um-

Oh, okay.

Yeah, fair enough

... which is interesting.

So Robin Laws, th- this, you know...

So okay, let's talk about, uh, Robin Laws.

Sooner or later.

We will have to wait for the Robin Laws

books.

Oh, it's only in the Robin Laws book, not the old one?

It's in the upcoming Robin Laws book.

Oh, cool.

But there's this very nice video from six or seven years ago when Jeff and Robin presented Pebbles as the ultimate sandbox.

I saw the manuscript for Age of Vikings in 2017.