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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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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.

01:00:40

Steal Everything Episode 3: $#!% Happens

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2024/10/18

In which we discuss the various things that can happen in your games, as thiefed from Georges Polti.

01:06:32

Steal Everything Episode 2: Character Dynamics from...

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2024/10/11

Where Josh and I talk about TV shows that have good ensemble casts and relationships that you can steal from them.

01:00:07

Steal Everything: Episode 1 Video Games

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2024/10/04

Part one of our four-part series on things you should steal from other people who make good stuff. In this episode we go over cool setting ideas from popular video games (some of which we've even played!)

58:07

Games as a Service

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2024/09/27

We discuss one of my most embarrassing high school memories, a game we like to hear stories about more than play and... Oh, that thing Wizards of the Coast wanted to do with D&D Beyond not having 5th Edition Spells anymore as part of a strange subscription business model, I guess.

52:11

Building Worlds

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2024/09/20

We talk about humanoid raccoons and that time I gave my DM Joey a duotang full of backstory for a country that didn't exist for my character to be from.

01:20:55

Creating Character

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2024/09/13

Josh tries to make a dirt-simple character while Kris asks him ridiculous questions about his deep, detailed backstory.

01:06:36

Balancing Act | No Plot Only Lore

No Plot, Only Lore ·

2024/09/06

www.noplotonlylore.comThis week we talk about balance in tabletop role-playing games!

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