The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish episodes

February 14, 2022Lazy D&D Talk Show: Elements of Inspiration Decks, Dragonflight, City of Arches
Mike talks about all things D&D!
Contents
00:51 Kickstarter Spotlight: Elements of Inspiration Decks
05:53 Product Spotlight: Dragonflight by 2C Gaming
27:09 Sly Flourish Patreon Product: The City of Arches Guidebook
38:55 Patreon Question: Running Sandbox Games with the Eight Steps
42:47 Patreon Question: Going Too Far with End-of-Campaign Montages
44:49 Patreon Question: Underused Nugget from the Eight Steps?
46:28 Patreon Question: Good Aspects of 4e
49:10 Patreon Question: Organizing Useful Info from RPG PDFs
52:27 Patreon Question: Running Labyrinths in D&D
55:22 Patreon Question: Preparing Upward and Downward Beats
59:24 Patreon Question: Preparing Options after a Cliffhanger Battle
Links
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Buy the Lazy DM's Companion
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Elements of Inspiration Deck Kickstarter
Dragonflight by 2C Gaming
1 hr 5 min
February 11, 2022Lazy D&D Prep: Wild Beyond the Witchlight Chapter 1 Tips and Chapter 2 Prep
Mike offers tips and discussion for chapter 1 of Wild Beyond the Witchlight and prepares to run chapter 2!
Contents
00:00 Show Start
01:20 Top Three Tips for running Chapter 1 of Wild Beyond the Witchlight
11:25 Other Tips for Running Wild Beyond the Witchlight
14:30 What Did I Do in Chapter 1 in My Game?
23:36 Adding Dreadful Incursions - Not Good for Every Witchlight Campaign
28:41 Thoughts about Chapter 2
35:13 Prepping my Next Session in Chapter 2
48:16 Building a Dreadful Incursion
58:38 Finishing Up our Session Prep
Links
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Buy the Lazy DM's Companion
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Buy Wild Beyond the Witchlight on Amazon (affiliate link)
Wild Beyond the Witchlight Notion Template
Wild Beyond the Witchlight One-Page Campaign Guide
Using Notion.so for Lazy D&D Campaign Planning
1 hr 10 min
February 10, 2022Numenera Session 1– Lazy GM Prep
Mike prepares to run his session zero of his first Numenera campaign!
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Buy the Lazy DM's Companion
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Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Numenera Lazy DM Campaign Notebook
Numenera Discovery
Injecting the Weird
Jade Colossus
49 min
February 07, 2022Lazy D&D Talk Show: New WOTC President, Lazy DM’s Companion PDF for Sale, Tal’Dorei Reborn
WOTC's new president, Lazy DM's Companion PDF for sale, Tal'Dorei Reborn product spotlight, more on Monsters of the Multiverse monster difficulty, and February Patreon Q&A in this week's Lazy D&D Talk Show!
Contents
00:00 Show Start
00:35 New President of Wizards of the Coast and the Unpredictability of the Future of D&D
07:20 Lazy DM's Companion PDF Now for General Sale!
08:36 Tal'Dorei Reborn Product Spotlight
25:17 Videos and Articles about Monster Difficulty in Monsters of the Multiverse
37:57 Patreon Question: Running with One Remote Player and Three Physical Players
41:55 Patreon Question: Running a Predator-style Adventure that Doesn't Suck
45:55 Patreon Question: Any Further Tips on Campaign Development? Not really!
47:51 Patreon Question: Getting Players to Use More Character Features
50:31 Patreon Question: Getting Players to Understand Old-School Style Adventures in 5e
53:29 Patreon Question: Building Legacy Weapons that Scale Up in Power
Links
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
New WOTC President – Cynthia Williams
Lazy DM's Companion PDF for general sale!
Tal'Dorei Reborn
59 min
February 04, 2022Lazy GM Prep: Blades in the Dark Campaign Retrospective
Mike discusses his Blades in the Dark finale and thoughts about the game.
Blades in the Dark
Blades in the Dark Cheat Sheet by Justin Alexander
Blades in the Dark Notion Campaign Notebook
Using Notion.so for Lazy D&D Campaign Planning
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Join Sly Flourish's Patreon
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
21 min
February 03, 2022Numenera Session Zero – Lazy GM Prep
Mike prepares to run his session zero of his first Numenera campaign!
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Buy the Lazy DM's Companion
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Numenera Lazy DM Campaign Notebook
Numenera Discovery
Injecting the Weird
Jade Colossus
43 min
February 02, 2022January 2022 Patreon Q&A
Mike goes through the final 33 Patreon questions of January 2022!
Contents
00:00:00 Show Intro
00:01:01 Cliche Bad Guy Expositions
00:02:49 Managing Treasure Distribution
00:05:08 Describing Three of Five Keys In Fiction
00:07:30 Building Quick Monsters from Scratch
00:09:39 Incorporating Character Backstories - Not for Everyone
00:13:46 Lazy Tips for Character Retreats
00:17:41 Sly Flourish DM Screen?
00:21:05 Creating Interesting Combat Encounters
00:25:12 Adding New Characters to Descent into Avernus
00:27:06 Making a CR 3 Vampire
00:28:56 More Sly Flourish Streamed D&D Games? Nope, Sorry.
00:30:29 Running One-Hour D&D Games
00:33:33 Tracking Factions in Notion
00:35:26 One-Page Campaign Guide for Homebrew Worlds
00:38:49 Setup for Running Games Online
00:41:08 Experience with Devesting Critical Hits
00:42:05 Using Extra Encounters for WOTC Hardcover Campaigns
00:43:33 Fog of War for Tabletop Maps
00:46:01 Secrets and Clues for West Marches Games
00:48:16 Managing Monsters with Debilitating Fun-Stealing Effects
00:51:04 OGL Good for Smaller Publishers? Not sure.
00:52:57 Running Grendleroot in Avernus
00:54:10 Integrating Monuments
00:55:50 Running Forgotten Realms for Knowledgable Players
00:58:05 Running Townbuilding Scenarios
00:59:44 Revealing Pointcrawls to Players
01:01:59 Playing in an 11-year-old's D&D Game
01:03:01 Running Grendleroot to 20th Level
01:04:31 Converting Settings to Other Systems and Running Fate
01:07:12 Speeding Up Combat
01:09:10 High-Level Relics Too Powerful? Nope!
01:11:03 Getting Players to Roleplay With Each Other
01:12:26 Revealing Numenera to Unknowing Characters
Links
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Buy the Lazy DM's Companion
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Ruins of the Grendleroot
Shawn Merwin Deep Dive on One-Hour Games
Three of Five Keys
Sly Flourish D&D Cheat Sheet
Running a West Marches Grendleroot Campaign
1 hr 16 min
January 31, 2022Lazy D&D Talk Show – The Importance of D&D, Tome of Beasts 3, Level Up 5e Monstrous Menagerie
Mike talks about all things D&D!
Contents
00:29 My friend Bryan and the Importance of D&D
08:07 Quick Thoughts on Blades in the Dark
09:23 Further Thoughts on D&D Beyond and Monsters of the Multiverse
12:28 Kickstarter Spotlight: Tome of Beasts 3 by Kobold Press (Sponsored)
17:04 Product Spotlight: Level Up 5e Monstrous Menagerie
42:58 Patreon Q&A
43:23 Patreon Question: 5e's Time Sinks
48:22 Patreon Question: Do Monster Dials Prevent Character Death?
50:27 Patreon Question: Digital 3rd Party Products Outside of PDFs?
53:09 Patreon Question: Tips for Monster Morale
55:18 Patreon Question: 4e Modules of Note for 5e Conversion?
56:59 Patreon Question: Secrets, Clues, and Discoveries for Numenera
Links
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Buy the Lazy DM's Companion
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Playing D&D Can Save Your Life
Tome of Beasts 3 Kickstarter (Sponsored)
Level Up Advanced 5e Monstrous Menagerie
Madness at Gardmore Abbey
1 hr 1 min
January 27, 2022Lazy GM Prep: Blades in the Dark Session 4
Mike prepares for his Blades in the Dark game.
Blades in the Dark
Blades in the Dark Cheat Sheet by Justin Alexander
Blades in the Dark Notion Campaign Notebook
Using Notion.so for Lazy D&D Campaign Planning
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Join Sly Flourish's Patreon
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
32 min
January 24, 2022Lazy D&D Talk Show – Lazy DM’s Companion Delivered, Monsters of the Multiverse release and stat block thoughts, Patreon Questions
Mike talks about all things D&D!
Contents
00:38 Lazy DM's Companion PDF Delivered!
09:29 Monsters of the Multiverse on D&D Beyond on May 17th
13:25 MotM Not Updating Previous Content on D&D Beyond
23:26 A Look at Monsters of the Multiverse Stat Blocks
47:56 Patreon Question: Transitions Between Scenes and Encounters
50:47 Patreon Question: Running "World Without Heroes" Campaign
53:35 Patreon: Using Callbacks
56:08 Patreon Question: Problems and Benefits of D&D Canon
59:36 Patreon Question: Bite-sized Lore and Inspiration
Links
Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Preorder the Lazy DM's Companion
Monsters of the Multiverse on D&D Beyond on 17 May 2022
Enworld on Monsters of the Multiverse not replacing existing monsters
Reddit transcript of D&D Beyond Twitch show on Monsters of the Multiverse
DDB Taking Queues from WOTC on MotM integration
Brandes Soddard's Twitter Preview of MotM
See Brandes Soddard's media files for all of his MotM previews
Level Up 5e Monstrous Menagerie (affiliate link)
A World Without Heroes: A 1st to 20th level Campaign Outline
1 hr 3 min