All Episodes
No Plot, Only Lore — 93 episodes
Building Theory-Craftable Worlds: Lessons from Deltarune and FNAF
Steal Everything: One Piece Lore
One Piece Season 2 is a Chaotic D&D Game
Failure to Thrive
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
The Fiddly Bits Part 1
Steal Everything Episode 4: Board Game Mechanics Remix
Steal Everything Episode 3: $#!% Happens
Steal Everything Episode 2: Character Dynamics from Television
Steal Everything: Episode 1 Video Games
Games as a Service
Building Worlds
Creating Character
Balancing Act | No Plot Only Lore
Gamifying Everything | No Plot, Only Lore
Getting Controversial | No Plot, Only Lore
Heroes and Cornplating | No Plot Only Lore
Genre | No Plot Only Lore
D&D Five Point Five | No Plot Only Lore
Complexity | No Plot Only Lore Episode 23
Villains | No Plot Only Lore Episode 22
No Plot Only Lore 22: Theme, Tone, Context
No Plot Only Lore 21: Adaptation II
No Plot Only Lore 20: Always Adapting
No Plot Only Lore 19: Talk to Me
No Plot Only Lore 18: The Histories
No Plot Only Lore 17: It's Me, Hi, I'm the Problem, It's Me
No Plot Only Lore 16: Secret's in the Source
No Plot Only Lore 15: Characters as Cool as You
No Plot Only Lore 15: My House, My Rules
No Plot Only Lore 14: One-Shot
No Plot Only Lore 13: Tell Me About Warhammer 40k
No Plot Only Lore 12: The Magic of Items
No Plot Only Lore 11: You Were the Werewolf the Whole Time
No Plot Only Lore 10: Let's Talk About Settings, Baby
No Plot Only Lore 09: RPG Elements in Board Games
No Plot Only Lore 08: What the Fuck is Kris Always Talking About?
No Plot Only Lore 07: How the Hell do You Prepare for a D&D Session?
No Plot Only Lore 06: Your Combat Doesn't Have to be Boring
No Plot Only Lore 05: Tech Tools and the Rise of AI
No Plot Only Lore 04: This Isn't D&D Anymore
No Plot Only Lore 03: Running Games Past Josh
No Plot Only Lore 02: Choo Choo Railroading
No Plot Only Lore 01: Big Fat Failure