Mike talks with Ryan Servis of 2C Gaming about the role of the DM and debating objectivity versus a bias towards the characters in our D&D games.

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Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!

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This week Mike prepares for his session zero of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!

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Mike's final thoughts on his homebrew Eberron campaign. This is a rebroadcast of Mike’s Lazy DM Prep show broadcast live on Twitch and reposted to YouTube and here in podcast form.

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Eberron Campaign Notebook

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Mike talks about safety tools in D&D including the X-card, lines and veils, script change, and others.

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Resources

• Safety tool reference by Tomer Gurantz

Video Contents

00:00 What are safety tools?

01:05 Why use safety tools?

03:01 The X-Card

03:39 Lines and Veils

08:11 Script Change

09:13 The Door is Open

10:20 Why do I suddenly care?

13:48 A Safety Tool Stack (rating, lines & veils, "pause")

16:27 Recognizing full-consent decisions versus majority rule

17:49 DMs using "Pause for a Second"

19:18 More on why we want safety tools

23:08 The Awesome Value of free tools

Mike talks with Dave Chalker about the various combat styles we can bring to D&D including gridded combat, abstract maps, and theater of the mind.

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Mike's latest episode of Sly Flourish's Lazy DM Prep for his homebrew Eberron game. This is a rebroadcast of Mike’s Lazy DM Prep show broadcast live on Twitch and reposted to YouTube and here in podcast form.

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In this somewhat-raw discussion with Mike Shea (@slyflourish) and Enrique Bertran (@NewbieDM) we talk about our experiences with the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons!

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Mike's latest episode of Sly Flourish's Lazy DM Prep for his homebrew Eberron game. This is a rebroadcast of Mike’s Lazy DM Prep show broadcast live on Twitch and reposted to YouTube and here in podcast form.

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Mike covers tips and tricks for running chapter 3 from Descent into Avernus. 

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Video Contents

• 00:00​ Intro