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No Plot, Only Lore — 89 episodes

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Title
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Meditations on Evil

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Badaptation

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

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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?

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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

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

45

Dragon Claus 4: Last Minute Christmas Shopping

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Dragon Claus 3 - The Christmas Dungeon

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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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The Fiddly Bits Part 1

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Steal Everything Episode 4: Board Game Mechanics Remix

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Steal Everything Episode 3: $#!% Happens

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Steal Everything Episode 2: Character Dynamics from Television

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Steal Everything: Episode 1 Video Games

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Games as a Service

57

Building Worlds

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Creating Character

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Balancing Act | No Plot Only Lore

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Gamifying Everything | No Plot, Only Lore

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Getting Controversial | No Plot, Only Lore

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Heroes and Cornplating | No Plot Only Lore

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Genre | No Plot Only Lore

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D&D Five Point Five | No Plot Only Lore

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Complexity | No Plot Only Lore Episode 23

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Villains | No Plot Only Lore Episode 22

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No Plot Only Lore 22: Theme, Tone, Context

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No Plot Only Lore 21: Adaptation II

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No Plot Only Lore 20: Always Adapting

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No Plot Only Lore 19: Talk to Me

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No Plot Only Lore 18: The Histories

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No Plot Only Lore 17: It's Me, Hi, I'm the Problem, It's Me

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No Plot Only Lore 16: Secret's in the Source

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No Plot Only Lore 15: Characters as Cool as You

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No Plot Only Lore 15: My House, My Rules

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No Plot Only Lore 14: One-Shot

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No Plot Only Lore 13: Tell Me About Warhammer 40k

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No Plot Only Lore 12: The Magic of Items

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No Plot Only Lore 11: You Were the Werewolf the Whole Time

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No Plot Only Lore 10: Let's Talk About Settings, Baby

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No Plot Only Lore 09: RPG Elements in Board Games

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No Plot Only Lore 08: What the Fuck is Kris Always Talking About?

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No Plot Only Lore 07: How the Hell do You Prepare for a D&D Session?

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No Plot Only Lore 06: Your Combat Doesn't Have to be Boring

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No Plot Only Lore 05: Tech Tools and the Rise of AI

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No Plot Only Lore 04: This Isn't D&D Anymore

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No Plot Only Lore 03: Running Games Past Josh

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No Plot Only Lore 02: Choo Choo Railroading

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No Plot Only Lore 01: Big Fat Failure