No Plot, Only Lore
By Josh Varty and Kristoffer Hansen
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Episodes: 93
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Two old men talking about the art and craft of collaborative storytelling games.
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Building Theory-Craftable Worlds: Lessons from Deltarune and FNAF
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May 08, 2026 |
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Steal Everything: One Piece Lore
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May 01, 2026 |
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One Piece Season 2 is a Chaotic D&D Game
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Failure to Thrive
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Meditations on Evil
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Badaptation
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Tabletop Adaptations - What works and what doesn't when adapting an IP to the game table?
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Seasons of Dungeons & Dragons - Examining the Change to the Publication Format
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Why We Like Nazis
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Too Much Lore: Sumo 2, Fatter and Sassier
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Too Much Lore: Sumo Part 1
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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AI Re-revisited: Gray Ooze and the Enshittification of the Tabletop
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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AI Revisited: The Turd in the Digital Pool
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Darkest Dungeon Board Game Disaster: Why Kickstarter is Killing Tabletop Companies
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Kickstart Your Life - The Impact of Kickstarter on the Tabletop Gaming Space
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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The Walled Garden - The Open Gaming License, History and Future
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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December Sads
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Winter Celebrations (That Aren't Christmas!) in Tabletop Role-playing Games
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Best TTRPG Holiday Gift Guide 2023 | Lancer, Daggerheart & Dice!
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Attention Economy and TTRPGs: Are We Krill in the Critical Role Pond?
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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The Ecology of Goblins: Deconstructing 'Goblin Mode' & Millennial Burnout
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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The Problem With Progress: OPR's Sentient Bugs and Fan Backlash
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Anime Powers for TTRPGs: Can Groundhog Day Death & Turbo Granny Work in D&D?
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Cringe: Why Sincerity Still Matters at the TTRPG Gaming Table
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Bring out the Clowns: Humor and Jokes at the TTRPG Table
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Ludonarrative Dissonance: When TTRPG Game Mechanics Don't Match the Story
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Campaign Aftercare: What do You do When a Long TTRGP Campaign is Over?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Playing With Yourself: Solo Board Games that Don't Need Other Players
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Dungeon Parenting: Worldbuilding Challenges of Raising Kids in Your D&D Campaign
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Essential Board Game Expansions: Add-ons That Actually Improve the Core Game
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Lost Civilizations & Ruins: How to Use Fallen Empires for TTRPG Worldbuilding
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Slipperiest Game 2: The Failure of Narrative Design in Squid Game's Later Seasons
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The Slipperiest Game, Pt 1: The Narrative Design Masterpiece That Didn't Need a Sequel
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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The Crossover: Dora the Explorer in Mortal Kombat, FNAF Lore, and the Star Wars Ewok Debate
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The Gritty Reboot pt 2: Pokémon, The Boys, & James Bond, Too Real for TV?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The Gritty Reboot pt 1: Gritty Reboots for Zorro, Inspector Gadget & Narnia
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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The Chosen One: Buffy, Star Wars, Wheel of Time & The Problem with Fate in TTRPGs
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Folklore with X Dialed Up to 11: Gross Selkies, Melancholic Santa, Queer Baba Yaga & Domestic Anansi
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The End? The Apocalypse, Star Wars, and Why D&D Campaigns Never Finish
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May 30, 2025 |
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Your Premise Doesn't Matter: Anime, Star Wars, Airbud, and D&D
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May 23, 2025 |
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100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Setting the Fight's Absurd, NSFW Rules
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May 16, 2025 |
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Rule of Cool: Is It a DM Crutch or a Creative Tool?
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May 09, 2025 |
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Loot Fatigue
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May 02, 2025 |
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Long or Short Fork When Dining on Elf
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Table Apocalypses and Chaos Goblins
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Mouthful of Blood: Hooks and Player Buy-In
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Too Much Lore: Star Wars Worldbuilding
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Too Much Lore: Dads, Robots and the Keywork Trap - Coheed and Cambria
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Dragon Claus 4: Last Minute Christmas Shopping
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Dragon Claus 3 - The Christmas Dungeon
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Dragon Claus 2: Christmas Characters
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Dragon Claus 1: Christmas Campaign Hooks
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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NOPELOL is for the Children
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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The Fiddly Bits Part 2
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The Fiddly Bits Part 1
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Steal Everything Episode 4: Board Game Mechanics Remix
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Steal Everything Episode 3: $#!% Happens
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Steal Everything Episode 2: Character Dynamics from Television
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Steal Everything: Episode 1 Video Games
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Games as a Service
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Building Worlds
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Creating Character
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Balancing Act | No Plot Only Lore
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Gamifying Everything | No Plot, Only Lore
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Getting Controversial | No Plot, Only Lore
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Heroes and Cornplating | No Plot Only Lore
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Genre | No Plot Only Lore
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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D&D Five Point Five | No Plot Only Lore
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Complexity | No Plot Only Lore Episode 23
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Villains | No Plot Only Lore Episode 22
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 22: Theme, Tone, Context
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 21: Adaptation II
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 20: Always Adapting
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 19: Talk to Me
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 18: The Histories
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 17: It's Me, Hi, I'm the Problem, It's Me
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 16: Secret's in the Source
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May 31, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 15: Characters as Cool as You
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May 24, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 15: My House, My Rules
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May 17, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 14: One-Shot
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May 10, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 13: Tell Me About Warhammer 40k
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May 03, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 12: The Magic of Items
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 11: You Were the Werewolf the Whole Time
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 10: Let's Talk About Settings, Baby
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 09: RPG Elements in Board Games
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 08: What the Fuck is Kris Always Talking About?
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 07: How the Hell do You Prepare for a D&D Session?
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 06: Your Combat Doesn't Have to be Boring
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 05: Tech Tools and the Rise of AI
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 04: This Isn't D&D Anymore
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 02: Choo Choo Railroading
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 03: Running Games Past Josh
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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No Plot Only Lore 01: Big Fat Failure
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Nov 21, 2023 |