No Plot, Only Lore

We talk about some characters from Christmas and what you might steal for your D&D games. Want to play Santa? Or Frosty? Or... Jesus? Let's talk about it!

Part One in our four-part Christmas series! Josh and Kris talk about various ideas for getting your players into a Christmas themed one-shot or arc with a variety of Christmas hooks (though they tend to involve a concerning amount of child murder...) Chr

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

In which we come up with more cool ideas for ways to personalize and customize some of D&D's most iconic lore.

Where we fiddle with levers and try to come up with some fun new ideas for classic D&D monsters, species, and items!

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

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

Where Josh and I talk about TV shows that have good ensemble casts and relationships that you can steal from them.

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 video games (some of which we've even played!)

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 wanted to do with D&D Beyond not having 5th Edition Spells anymore as part of a strange subscription business model, I guess.

We talk about humanoid raccoons and that time I gave my DM Joey a duotang full of backstory for a country that didn't exist for my character to be from.

Josh tries to make a dirt-simple character while Kris asks him ridiculous questions about his deep, detailed backstory.

www.noplotonlylore.com This week we talk about balance in tabletop role-playing games!

In this episode, Josh and Kris tackle the benefits and drawbacks of game systems appearing in everything from childhood education to modern gambling. But like, in a fun way?

Digging into a few saucy controversies in the TTRPG space with some hot takes on people doing stupid stuff!

www.noplotonlylore.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-plot-only-lore/id1717725243 https://open.spotify.com/show/4aRL19z6CwVhoDaFWoRgqq This week we talk about Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey and how it doesn't really apply to planning a role-playing game. And also hyper-critical analysis of media via plates of corn.

www.noplotonlylore.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-plot-only-lore/id1717725243 https://open.spotify.com/show/4aRL19z6CwVhoDaFWoRgqq Talking about the nature of Genre and how we interact with genre tropes in our tabletop games!

www.noplotonlylore.com There's a new D&D edition coming out this year. Sort of. We figured we should probably talk about that.

www.noplotonlylore.com We talk about that time a guy came into my game store to insult my mom, and also about the nature of complex systems in role-playing games!

Star Wars has some pretty good villains sometimes. Your roleplaying games can have some pretty good villains in them too!

Kristoffer's failings as a parent are a jumping-off point for a discussion of themes, tone, and context in storytelling and role-playing games.

In this episode of No Plot, Only Lore, we dive deep into the rich and varied world of media homages to Dungeons & Dragons. Join us as we explore the fascinating intersections between D&D and popular culture, with a special focus on comic books, actual play media, and the unique trend of Reddit thread readings on TikTok.

We discuss adaptations of role-playing games.

Social and non-combat encounters are great, but can be super awkward and weird to run.

Bringing historical elements into your games is sometimes fraught with peril, but the past contains all the the things that have ever happened, so it's a decent resource.