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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

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Meditations on Evil

2

Badaptation

3

Tabletop Adaptations - What works and what doesn't when adapting an IP to the game table?

4

Seasons of Dungeons & Dragons - Examining the Change to the Publication Format

5

Why We Like Nazis

6

Too Much Lore: Sumo 2, Fatter and Sassier

7

Too Much Lore: Sumo Part 1

8

AI Re-revisited: Gray Ooze and the Enshittification of the Tabletop

9

AI Revisited: The Turd in the Digital Pool

10

Darkest Dungeon Board Game Disaster: Why Kickstarter is Killing Tabletop Companies

11

Kickstart Your Life - The Impact of Kickstarter on the Tabletop Gaming Space

12

The Walled Garden - The Open Gaming License, History and Future

13

December Sads

14

Winter Celebrations (That Aren't Christmas!) in Tabletop Role-playing Games

15

Best TTRPG Holiday Gift Guide 2023 | Lancer, Daggerheart & Dice!

16

Attention Economy and TTRPGs: Are We Krill in the Critical Role Pond?

17

The Ecology of Goblins: Deconstructing 'Goblin Mode' & Millennial Burnout

18

The Problem With Progress: OPR's Sentient Bugs and Fan Backlash

19

Anime Powers for TTRPGs: Can Groundhog Day Death & Turbo Granny Work in D&D?

20

Cringe: Why Sincerity Still Matters at the TTRPG Gaming Table

21

Bring out the Clowns: Humor and Jokes at the TTRPG Table

22

Ludonarrative Dissonance: When TTRPG Game Mechanics Don't Match the Story

23

Campaign Aftercare: What do You do When a Long TTRGP Campaign is Over?

24

Playing With Yourself: Solo Board Games that Don't Need Other Players

25

Dungeon Parenting: Worldbuilding Challenges of Raising Kids in Your D&D Campaign

26

Essential Board Game Expansions: Add-ons That Actually Improve the Core Game

27

Lost Civilizations & Ruins: How to Use Fallen Empires for TTRPG Worldbuilding

28

Slipperiest Game 2: The Failure of Narrative Design in Squid Game's Later Seasons

29

The Slipperiest Game, Pt 1: The Narrative Design Masterpiece That Didn't Need a Sequel

30

The Crossover: Dora the Explorer in Mortal Kombat, FNAF Lore, and the Star Wars Ewok Debate

31

The Gritty Reboot pt 2: Pokémon, The Boys, & James Bond, Too Real for TV?

32

The Gritty Reboot pt 1: Gritty Reboots for Zorro, Inspector Gadget & Narnia

33

The Chosen One: Buffy, Star Wars, Wheel of Time & The Problem with Fate in TTRPGs

34

Folklore with X Dialed Up to 11: Gross Selkies, Melancholic Santa, Queer Baba Yaga & Domestic Anansi

35

The End? The Apocalypse, Star Wars, and Why D&D Campaigns Never Finish

36

Your Premise Doesn't Matter: Anime, Star Wars, Airbud, and D&D

37

100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Setting the Fight's Absurd, NSFW Rules

38

Rule of Cool: Is It a DM Crutch or a Creative Tool?

39

Loot Fatigue

40

Long or Short Fork When Dining on Elf

41

Table Apocalypses and Chaos Goblins

42

Mouthful of Blood: Hooks and Player Buy-In

43

Too Much Lore: Star Wars Worldbuilding

44

Too Much Lore: Dads, Robots and the Keywork Trap - Coheed and Cambria

45

Dragon Claus 4: Last Minute Christmas Shopping

46

Dragon Claus 3 - The Christmas Dungeon

47

Dragon Claus 2: Christmas Characters

48

Dragon Claus 1: Christmas Campaign Hooks

49

NOPELOL is for the Children

50

The Fiddly Bits Part 2

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