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The Lazy RPG Talk Show and the Lazy GM Prep show. D&D news, commentary, spotlights, Q&A, and lazy GM prep with Mike Shea of Sly Flourish.
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
What makes a good D&D map and where can a lazy DM easily find them?
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Mike talks about the value of heralds who announce villains far and wide.
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Mike chats about all things D&D!
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Show Contents
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:17 Tricks for the D&D Encounter Builder
- 12:35 Mork Borg
- 17:41 Old School Essentials
- 24:40 Runehammer Games's 5e Hardcore Mode
- 32:14 2C Gamings Total Party Kill Bestiary 2
- 37:42 Nord's Dreaded Accursed
- 40:19 Increasing the Deadly Encounter Benchmark at level 11+
- 46:09 Returning to our one-on-one D&D game
Links
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Mike discusses how to prepare for your game in about 15 minutes.
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Mike offers two tools for better D&D 5e encounter building.
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
The lost recording of the Worldbuilding for the Lazy Dungeon Master panel at Pax Unplugged, December 2019, hosted by James Haeck with Makenzie De Armas, Mike Shea, Morrigan Robbins, and Renee Rhodes.
James Haeck
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Makenzie De Armas
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Mike Shea
@slyflourish
Morrigan Robbins
@MorriLoremother
Renee Rhodes
@raedeanner
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Mike chats about D&D!
Show Contents
- 00:00 Show Start
- 00:52 Translations Pushing Back 6e Predictions
- 5:00 Reviews of Third Party Books
- 07:22 Arcana of the Ancients
- 12:07 Ptolus
- 15:07 Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands
- 18:04 Ironsworn
- 20:56 Adventures of the Potbellied Kobold'
- 23:51 Mike's Appendix N (what's yours??)
- 37:25 Mike's Take on Stress Effects
- 58:15 Player vs. Player and Player vs. DM Consent
- 1:10:20 Rant about Adventurer's League
Links
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Mike talks about the importance of being nice to 1st level characters and offers three tips to make their lives a little easier.
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Mike discusses the importance of managing time in your D&D game.
Thursday Jun 10, 2021
Thursday Jun 10, 2021
Recently recovered from the deepest depths of the ancient Sly Flourish libraries, I bring you my interview with Paige Leitman in which we discuss D&D Adventurer's League, our favorite conventions, and all sorts of fun topics.
Video Contents
00:00 We love Winter Fantasy! What We've enjoyed.
03:07 Who's Paige Leitman?
06:07 Paige's there new tips for current DMs
07:15 Use an X Card (see the link below)
08:44 Cater to your audience and ask them what they want
09:01 Read your published adventures
11:00 What's changed in 2 years? AL moving towards story.
16:56 How are the changes being accepted?
19:20 What people think of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
21:17 Other trends from the 5e Facebook: greater diversity and inclusion.
22:30 Interesting homebrew is popping up.
23:20 The impact of D&D Beyond
26:30 Navigating the curve between tactical and story
31:58 Play a different game
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Mike chats about all things D&D including the new D&D book leaks and other stuff!
Video Contents
- 00:00 Show Start
- 03:15 New D&D Books Leaked
- 03:49 Wild Beyond the Witchlight
- 04:50 Curriculum of Chaos
- 05:50 How to Enjoy D&D + MtG Books More
- 12:51 The Problem Challenging Players
- 38:16 Critical Role and the 20th Level Complexity D&D Game
Links
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Mike offers three simple quest models you can keep in your toolkit when preparing your D&D games.
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Mike does an in-depth review of Van Richten's Guide to Everything. In short, it's awesome.
- Original YouTube Video
- Buy Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Video Contents
- 00:00 Video start
- 00:58 I Highly Recommend This Book
- 03:09 Are "Ravenloft" and "Domains of Dread" the same thing? (Yes)
- 04:25 Great Player Guidance I Wish Was in the PHB
- 06:14 Lineages (they're awesome)
- 10:09 Building Domains of Dread (Meh)
- 14:27 Genres of Horror (I loved this section)
- 17:53 Domains of Dread (110+ pages of awesome)
- 24:47 Travelers in the Mist (didn't dig in too much)
- 30:04 Haunted Traps (What the hell is a haunt bonus?)
- 30:39 Survivors (0 level characters???)
- 34:47 The House of Lament Adventure (Awesome)
- 36:01 Monster Traits and What-Not
- 38:12 Monster Stat Blocks
- 46:49 Concluding thoughts
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Mike talks about the value in understanding that secrets and clues serve you.
Sunday May 30, 2021
Sunday May 30, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Mike discusses and ranks nearly all the hardcover WOTC-published D&D adventures.
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Guide to Published D&D Adventures
Video Contents
- 00:00 Beginning
- 03:52 Lost Mine of Phandelver
- 06:17 Dragon of Icespire Peak
- 08:47 Curse of Strahd
- 12:10 Ghosts of Saltmarsh
- 16:05 Tomb of Annihilation
- 22:23 Storm King's Thunder
- 26:15 Tyranny of Dragons (Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat)
- 29:52 Waterdeep Dragon Heist
- 33:32 Out of the Abyss
- 36:07 Rime of the Frostmaiden
- 42:01 Princes of the Apocalypse
- 44:13 I've enjoyed ALL of these adventures
- 45:25 Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
- 48:04 Even rough adventures can be great fun
Amazon Associate Links for these adventures...
- D&D Starter Set: Lost Mine of Phandelver
- D&D Essentials Kit: Dragon of Icespire Peak
- Curse of Strahd
- Ghosts of Saltmarsh
- Tomb of Annihilation
- Cellar of Death for Tomb of Annihilation
- Storm King's Thunder
- Tyranny of Dragons
- Waterdeep Dragon Heist
- Out of the Abyss
- Rime of the Frostmaiden
- Princes of the Apocalypse
- Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
- Fall of Elturel
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Mike talks about the value of running simple D&D adventures.
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Mike argues for the value of published RPG material even when running our own homebrew adventures and campaigns.
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Mike chat's about D&D!
- Original Youtube Video
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Join Sly Flourish's Patreon
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Video Contents
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:21 Scaling Adventures & Dials of Monster Difficulty
- 03:54 All the ways to subscribe to Sly Flourish!
- 06:01 Beefing up an ogre
- 11:10 "Roles" in 4e and 5e
- 13:05 Why Minions, Normal, Elite, and Solo roles don't work for 5e
- 17:32 Monsters Know What They're Doing is awesome
- 21:03 Initial thoughts on Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
- 42:59 Thoughts on 6e from a indie publisher's point of view
Links
- Dials of Monster Difficulty
- Monster's Know What They're Doing
- DM Deep Dive with Keith Amman
- Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
- Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e
- Raging Swan Press Patreon
- Raging Swan Press DriveThruRPG
- Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands
Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Mike discusses the value of running more easy battles in our D&D games to maintain the oscillation of upward and downward beats.
Sunday May 16, 2021
Sunday May 16, 2021
Mike chats about general D&D topics and ponders how to handle chapters 2 and beyond in Rime of the Frostmaiden.
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Ptolus by Monte Cook
- Frostmaiden Chapters 2+ Thoughts Notion Notebook
Video Contents
- 00:00 Beginning
- 00:30 Become a Patreon: https://patreon.com/slyflourish
- 02:34 Ptolus by Monte Cook Games
- 11:27 Van Richten's Guide and overly positive early reviews
- 16:50 New Adventures c Can we see more optimistic adventures?
- 24:39 Are WOTC hardback adventures all about marketing?
- 34:50 How do we steal from published adventures for our own game?
- 44:05 Embrace third-party D&D publishers
- 51:34 New Sly Flourish three-minute tip videos
- 56:52 Mire's End – A Patreon-exclusive adventure location coming soon
- 58:54 Increasing Patreon subscription for new patrons?
- 1:05:13 Frostmaiden: Auril's Endless Night
- 1:13:21 Auril as a "Front"
- 1:16:40 Frostmaiden as a Three-Act Story
- 1:21:00 Sub-quests and hooks for Chapter 2
Wednesday May 12, 2021
Wednesday May 12, 2021
Another short episode in which Mike talks about the importance of focusing on your next D&D game.
Sunday May 09, 2021
Sunday May 09, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
Mike offers three tips to draw players into the fiction of your D&D game in three minutes.
Sunday May 02, 2021
Sunday May 02, 2021
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!