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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
Jul 15, 2021
Jul 15, 2021
50 min
Mike chats about all things D&D!
- 00:00 Show Start
- 00:44 D&D and Magic the Gathering
- 08:07 Playing MtG again
- 16:37 Reviewing Patreons Next Week
- 18:54 Knife to Know You by Doryen Chin
- 24:25 Mork Borg
- 36:46 Downtime in D&D
- 48:07 Getting back to playing in person
Links
- Original YouTube video
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- In Scarlet Flames D&D MtG Adventure
- The Hidden Page D&D MtG Adventure
- Knife to Know You by Doryen Chin
- Mork Borg
- Running Downtime in D&D
Jul 13, 2021
Jul 13, 2021
3 min
Mike talks about the best, and cheapest, ways to improve your D&D game. The best tools to improve your D&D game are free.
- Original YouTube video
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Jul 12, 2021
Jul 12, 2021
46 min
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
- YouTube Video
- Notion Frostmaiden Campaign Notebook
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Join Sly Flourish's Patreon
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
Jul 9, 2021
Jul 9, 2021
2 min
Mike describes how to use Lu Quade's "Stars and Wishes" to get great feedback from your players on your D&D game.
Jul 8, 2021
Jul 8, 2021
52 min
Mike talks about all things D&D!
- 00:00 Video Intro
- 00:13 TSR (3) and the Ernie Gygax Situation
- 05:46 Gender Identity Thoughts from an Old Cis White Dude
- 12:14 How Important is D&D Voicework Poll
- 16:41 Why I Review Third Party Products
- 18:27 Empire of the Ghouls by Kobold press
- 27:56 Where the Machines Wait
- 34:17 MtG D&D Adventures and Pregen Characters
- 38:05 Making Cheap D&D Tokens from MtG Cards
- 40:44 Rolling for Monster Horde Damage
- 46:37 Matt Colville making his own RPG? Level up 5e RPG
- 49:21 Dungeons of Drakkenheim
Links
- YouTube Video
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
- Enworld on TSR (3) and Ernie Gygax
- Morrus's Unofficial Podcast on Ernie Gygax
- How Important is DM Voicework poll on Twitter
- Empire of the Ghouls PDF
- Empire of the Ghouls Hardcover
- Where the Machines Wait PDF
- Where the Machines Wait softcover
- In Scarlet Flames free D&D MtG Crossover Adventure
- D&D MtG Planeswalker Character Sheets
- Lazy Monster Tokens
- Level Up, Advanced 5e
- Dungeons of Drakkenheim Kickstarter
Jul 7, 2021
Jul 7, 2021
43 min
Mike uses the Adventure Generators from the Sly Flourish Patreon to build an adventure from scratch for his Saturday D&D game. Part 2 of 2.
Jul 6, 2021
Jul 6, 2021
3 min
Mike offers a tip for thinking up secrets and clues by considering the types of secrets the characters may discover and how they might discover them.
Types of secrets
- Character secrets
- NPC secrets
- Story secrets
- Villainous secrets
- Location secrets
- Historical secrets
- Theological secrets
Ways to discover them
- Character background
- NPCs (friendly or hostile)
- Books, journals, notes, and scolls
- Items
- Frescos and mosaics
- dreams and portents
- sentient magic items
Links
- Original YouTube video
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021
47 min
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
3 min
Mike offers a tip to get players to think more about monsters in the story of your D&D game by asking them to define interesting physical characteristics of monsters.
Jul 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
51 min
Another episode of the Lazy D&D Talk show. Topics include how to steer damage away from the boss, the Mercer effect, yam-shaped adventures design, and reviews of Grymmworld and the Oath of the Frozen King.
Contents
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:36 Finding a D&D group
- 05:07 How did my Keep of the Black Gate game go?
- 07:05 Player tip: Always have a ranged attack
- 08:36 DM Tip: Redirect damage away from the boss
- 13:30 The Mercer Effect
- 24:21 Grymmworld by Grant Ellis and Ryan Servis
- 33:40 Oath of the Frozen King by Absolute Tabletop
- 40:32 Too many quests in chapter 1 of Frostmaiden
- 43:49 Yam-shaped adventure design
Links
- Original YouTube Video
- Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter
- Support Sly Flourish on Patreon
- Buy Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Finding and Maintaining a D&D Group
- Dungeoncraft on the Mercer Effect
- Grymmworld
- Oath of the Frozen King
Jun 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
1hr 1 min
Mike uses the Adventure Generators from the Sly Flourish Patreon to build an adventure from scratch for his Saturday D&D game. Part 1 of 2.
Jun 29, 2021
Jun 29, 2021
2 min
What makes a good D&D map and where can a lazy DM easily find them?
Jun 29, 2021
Jun 29, 2021
30 min
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Jun 28, 2021
Jun 28, 2021
40 min
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Jun 25, 2021
Jun 25, 2021
4 min
Mike talks about the value of heralds who announce villains far and wide.
Jun 24, 2021
Jun 24, 2021
49 min
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
Jun 22, 2021
Jun 22, 2021
6 min
Mike discusses how to prepare for your game in about 15 minutes.
Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021
36 min
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Jun 18, 2021
Jun 18, 2021
6 min
Mike offers two tools for better D&D 5e encounter building.
Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021
56 min
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
@jamesjhaeck
Makenzie De Armas
makenzielaneda
Mike Shea
@slyflourish
Morrigan Robbins
@MorriLoremother
Renee Rhodes
@raedeanner
Jun 15, 2021
Jun 15, 2021
1hr 18 min
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
Jun 14, 2021
Jun 14, 2021
3 min
Mike talks about the importance of being nice to 1st level characters and offers three tips to make their lives a little easier.
Jun 11, 2021
Jun 11, 2021
3 min
Mike discusses the importance of managing time in your D&D game.
Jun 10, 2021
Jun 10, 2021
33 min
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
Jun 9, 2021
Jun 9, 2021
54 min
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
Jun 7, 2021
Jun 7, 2021
2 min
Mike offers three simple quest models you can keep in your toolkit when preparing your D&D games.
Jun 6, 2021
Jun 6, 2021
42 min
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Jun 3, 2021
Jun 3, 2021
48 min
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
Jun 1, 2021
Jun 1, 2021
4 min
Mike talks about the value in understanding that secrets and clues serve you.
May 30, 2021
May 30, 2021
28 min
Mike prepares for his latest session of Icewind Dale, Rime of the Frostmaiden!