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No Plot, Only Lore

Josh Varty and Kristoffer Hansen

Two old men talking about the art and craft of collaborative storytelling games.

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40:53

The Chosen One

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2025/06/13

Josh thinks Buffy is bad. This starts us down a rabbit hole about the Chosen One trope and how that applies to both media and RPGs.

32:28

Folklore with X Dialed Up to 11

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2025/06/06

We take some traditional folklore and randomize a descriptor to see what ideas we can come up with. Gross selkies, Baba Yaga but queer-coded, cutesy chupacabras and the like.

30:52

The End?

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2025/05/30

Sometimes this shit gets away from us, man. I don't know what to tell you. We had an idea for what to talk about and then we barely talked about it for a half hour.

32:40

Your Premise Doesn't Matter - Here's Proof

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2025/05/23

Sometimes we spend a lot of energy trying to come up with a cool premise or the Big Idea for a new game. But stupid premises can be a lot of fun and have surprising depth to them, too.

28:54

1 Gorilla, 100 Men

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2025/05/16

TW: SA, bestialityLook, this one got away from me for real. I'm an improviser - I'll yes-and anything. But this shit got real weird and stayed in that space for a while. This is the first time I've ever had to put a trigger warning on a podcast episode.

33:14

Rule of Cool

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2025/05/09

Wherein we discuss the Rule of Cool and its place in role-playing games.

36:29

Loot Fatigue

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2025/05/02

Talking about the problem of catching too much loot, or too much of the same loot, or progressing too quickly in RPGs.

37:31

Long or Short Fork When Dining on Elf

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2025/04/25

Eating monsters! How would you cook them? What would they taste like? Are they dangerous? Poisonous? Does a gorgon have metal blood?

34:54

When it All Goes Wrong

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2025/04/11

What do you do when the shit hits the fan and it all goes wrong? Let's talk about it!

29:20

Getting Player Investment

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2025/04/04

Wherein we talk about my family's strange reaction to gore and trauma, and then try to figure out how to get players invested in rpgs.

32:19

Too Much Lore: Star Wars

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2025/03/28

This week we tackle the Star Wars expanded universe and just how much Lore is crammed into Tatooine for no good reason.

31:00

Too Much Lore 1 - Coheed and Cambria

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2025/03/21

What happens when you throw everything at the wall and everything sticks? When you have TOO MUCH lore, and it goes all over the place? Find out on this week's No Plot, Only Lore!

01:47:16

Dragon Claus 4: Last Minute Christmas Shopping

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2024/12/13

In which we discuss some of our history with tabletop games retail, and also what sorts of things you can buy for your favorite D&D nerd!

01:11:35

Dragon Claus 3 - The Christmas Dungeon

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2024/12/06

Decorating your dungeon! Villains and henchmen and items galore!

59:13

Dragon Claus 2: Christmas Characters

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2024/11/29

We talk about some characters from Christmas and what you might steal for your D&D games. Want to play Santa? Or Frosty? Or... Jesus? Let's talk about it!

56:14

Dragon Claus 1: Christmas Campaign Hooks

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2024/11/22

Part One in our four-part Christmas series! Josh and Kris talk about various ideas for getting your players into a Christmas themed one-shot or arc with a variety of Christmas hooks (though they tend to involve a concerning amount of child murder...) Chr

59:58

NOPELOL is for the Children

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2024/11/15

Dungeons & Dragons is a kid's game. So how the heck do you go about playing it with kids?

01:03:22

The Fiddly Bits Part 2

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2024/11/08

In which we come up with more cool ideas for ways to personalize and customize some of D&D's most iconic lore.

58:13

The Fiddly Bits Part 1

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2024/11/01

Where we fiddle with levers and try to come up with some fun new ideas for classic D&D monsters, species, and items!

01:08:34

Steal Everything Episode 4: Board Game Mechanics Remix

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2024/10/25

Josh and Kris rummage through their stacks of old board games to see what mechanics they can steal for RPGs.

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