No Plot, Only Lore

07/04/2025

This week on No Plot, Only Lore, we're taking another crack at gritty reboots of beloved franchises, and this time the gloves are off. Cockfighting and Cold War Espionage!

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06/06/2025

This week on No Plot Only Lore, we tackle Folklore with a twist! Gross selkies and queer-coded Baba Yaga and cutesy chupacabra await! https://no-plot-only-lore.captivate.fm/listen

05/30/2025

The End? This one got away from us. Sometimes we come up with an idea for what an episode is going to say, and then it doesn't say that at all. We spend a half hour not talking about how to end your campaigns. https://no-plot-only-lore.captivate.fm/listen

04/05/2025

I did a dumb and forgot to edit No Plot Only Lore last night, so here it is thirteen and a half hours late but still on Friday! This week we talk about getting your players invested in your games, and the weird way my family handles injuries.

Not sure how long it'll be before YouTube gets it, if that's your preferred listening experience. Probably no longer than an hour.

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03/28/2025

This week we tackle the Star Wars expanded universe and just how much Lore is crammed into Tatooine for no good reason.

03/28/2025

I posted this weird this week!

This week we tackle the Star Wars expanded universe and just how much Lore is crammed into Tatooine for no good reason.

03/21/2025

Well holy s**t it's a new No Plot Only Lore! You ever have a thing that has just the right amount of Lore and you're like "I could use more lore with this," and then they add more lore and you think "Maybe that's too much lore?" I did a deep dive on Coheed and Cambria's lore and it's, uh... It's too much lore...

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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'...

11/16/2024

Dungeons & Dragons is a kid's game. So how the heck do you go about playing it with kids?

10/25/2024

This week on No Plot Only Lore, we take a look at other games you can steal mechanics from for your role-playing games in the last episode of our Steal Everything miniseries! Steal Everything Episode 4!

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Josh and Kris rummage through their stacks of old board games to see what mechanics they can steal for RPGs.

10/18/2024

This week on No Plot Only Lore, we continue the trend of stealing everything we can get out hands on. In this case, we're theifing tools used by French literary critics to help us decide what happens next in Dungeons & Dragons!

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

10/07/2024

Episode 1 of a four-episode series called Steal Everything! This week we talk about video games that make for some great settings and set pieces, and how you can thief those for your own nefarious purposes!

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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...

09/27/2024

This week on No Plot Only Lore, we delve into one of my most embarrassing high school experiences, talk about MMOs for a while and also chat about some absolutely ridiculous choices WotC has made over the years.

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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 w...