No Plot, Only Lore
BookmarkJosh Varty and Kristoffer Hansen
No Plot, Only Lore is a leisure podcast hosted by Josh Varty and Kristoffer Hansen. It has 89 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
Two old men talking about the art and craft of collaborative storytelling games.
leisure ·en ·89 episodes
Meditations on Evil
Badaptation
Tabletop Adaptations - What works and what doesn't when adapting an IP to the game table?
Seasons of Dungeons & Dragons - Examining the Change to the Publication Format
Why We Like Nazis
Too Much Lore: Sumo 2, Fatter and Sassier
Too Much Lore: Sumo Part 1
AI Re-revisited: Gray Ooze and the Enshittification of the Tabletop
AI Revisited: The Turd in the Digital Pool
Darkest Dungeon Board Game Disaster: Why Kickstarter is Killing Tabletop Companies
Kickstart Your Life - The Impact of Kickstarter on the Tabletop Gaming Space
The Walled Garden - The Open Gaming License, History and Future
December Sads
Winter Celebrations (That Aren't Christmas!) in Tabletop Role-playing Games
Best TTRPG Holiday Gift Guide 2023 | Lancer, Daggerheart & Dice!
Attention Economy and TTRPGs: Are We Krill in the Critical Role Pond?
The Ecology of Goblins: Deconstructing 'Goblin Mode' & Millennial Burnout
The Problem With Progress: OPR's Sentient Bugs and Fan Backlash
Anime Powers for TTRPGs: Can Groundhog Day Death & Turbo Granny Work in D&D?
Cringe: Why Sincerity Still Matters at the TTRPG Gaming Table
Bring out the Clowns: Humor and Jokes at the TTRPG Table
Ludonarrative Dissonance: When TTRPG Game Mechanics Don't Match the Story
Campaign Aftercare: What do You do When a Long TTRGP Campaign is Over?
Playing With Yourself: Solo Board Games that Don't Need Other Players
Dungeon Parenting: Worldbuilding Challenges of Raising Kids in Your D&D Campaign
Essential Board Game Expansions: Add-ons That Actually Improve the Core Game
Lost Civilizations & Ruins: How to Use Fallen Empires for TTRPG Worldbuilding
Slipperiest Game 2: The Failure of Narrative Design in Squid Game's Later Seasons
The Slipperiest Game, Pt 1: The Narrative Design Masterpiece That Didn't Need a Sequel
The Crossover: Dora the Explorer in Mortal Kombat, FNAF Lore, and the Star Wars Ewok Debate
The Gritty Reboot pt 2: Pokémon, The Boys, & James Bond, Too Real for TV?
The Gritty Reboot pt 1: Gritty Reboots for Zorro, Inspector Gadget & Narnia
The Chosen One: Buffy, Star Wars, Wheel of Time & The Problem with Fate in TTRPGs
Folklore with X Dialed Up to 11: Gross Selkies, Melancholic Santa, Queer Baba Yaga & Domestic Anansi
The End? The Apocalypse, Star Wars, and Why D&D Campaigns Never Finish
Your Premise Doesn't Matter: Anime, Star Wars, Airbud, and D&D
100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Setting the Fight's Absurd, NSFW Rules
Rule of Cool: Is It a DM Crutch or a Creative Tool?
Loot Fatigue
Long or Short Fork When Dining on Elf
Table Apocalypses and Chaos Goblins
Mouthful of Blood: Hooks and Player Buy-In
Too Much Lore: Star Wars Worldbuilding
Too Much Lore: Dads, Robots and the Keywork Trap - Coheed and Cambria
Dragon Claus 4: Last Minute Christmas Shopping
Dragon Claus 3 - The Christmas Dungeon
Dragon Claus 2: Christmas Characters
Dragon Claus 1: Christmas Campaign Hooks
NOPELOL is for the Children
The Fiddly Bits Part 2
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