No Plot, Only Lore

Josh Varty and Kristoffer Hansen

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No Plot, Only Lore

Two old men talking about the art and craft of collaborative storytelling games.

3D AGO

The Gritty Reboot pt 2

Wherein we talk about gritty reboots more and better!

42 min
JUN 20

The Gritty Reboot pt 1

We talk about rebooting and adapting some of our favorite intellectual properties as gritty HBO series.

35 min
JUN 13

The Chosen One

Josh thinks Buffy is bad. This starts us down a rabbit hole about the Chosen One trope and how that applies to both media and RPGs.

41 min
JUN 6

Folklore with X Dialed Up to 11

We take some traditional folklore and randomize a descriptor to see what ideas we can come up with. Gross selkies, Baba Yaga but queer-coded, cutesy chupacabras and the like.

32 min
MAY 30

The End?

Sometimes this shit gets away from us, man. I don't know what to tell you. We had an idea for what to talk about and then we barely talked about it for a half hour.

31 min
MAY 23

Your Premise Doesn't Matter - Here's Proof

Sometimes we spend a lot of energy trying to come up with a cool premise or the Big Idea for a new game. But stupid premises can be a lot of fun and have surprising depth to them, too.

33 min
MAY 16

1 Gorilla, 100 Men

TW: SA, bestiality Look, this one got away from me for real. I'm an improviser - I'll yes-and anything. But this shit got real weird and stayed in that space for a while. This is the first time I've ever had to put a trigger warning on a podcast episode.

29 min
MAY 9

Rule of Cool

Wherein we discuss the Rule of Cool and its place in role-playing games.

33 min

Two old men talking about the art and craft of collaborative storytelling games.

Creator

Josh Varty and Kristoffer Hansen
Years Active

2023 - 2025
Episodes

59
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© Copyright 2025 Josh Varty and Kristoffer Hansen
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No Plot, Only Lore