No Plot, Only Lore

Decorating your dungeon! Villains and henchmen and items galore!

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…

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 pla…

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…

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.

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!