RPG tip: Build big arenas for big boss battles with interesting terrain and layers of monsters.

#dnd #ttrpg

Tier-Ranking D&D and RPG Campaigns: Sly Flourish Podcast

https://slyflourish.podbean.com/e/tier-ranking-dd-and-rpg-campaigns/

#dnd #ttrpg

Tier-Ranking D&D and RPG Campaigns | The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

Mike ranks ten years worth of campaigns from S through F tier. 00:00 Show Start 01:18 Goal: Define Criteria for Evaluating Future Campaigns 02:58 Tier Ranking Ground Rules 06:28 Beginning the Tier Rankings 06:41 Shadow of the Demon Lord 07:28 Numener…

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RPG tip from the archive: Watch the movies that fit the theme of the adventure you're running to fill your head with ideas you can improvise as you run the game.

#dnd #ttrpg

RPG tip: Challenge high level characters by attacking several points — AC, saves, death saves, exhaustion, hit points, cumulative -1 penalties, and so on.

#dnd #ttrpg

KAIJU GELATINOUS CUBE 🦖🦕🧊

Quoting @morrus: https://chirp.enworld.org/@morrus@chirp.enworld.org/112446137759676086

#retoot #ttrpg #dnd #1dnd

RPG tip from the archive: Prep scenes with fantastic locations, interesting NPCs, potential secrets to unravel, and a situation to unravel.

#dnd #ttrpg

Discovering Stories through Skills and Backgrounds: SlyFlouirish.com Article from the Archive

https://slyflourish.com/discovering_stories_through_backgrounds_and_skills.html

#dnd #ttrpg

Discovering Stories through Skills and Backgrounds

We game masters love to tell stories. We have big tales we want to share. We have 3-ring binders filled with worlds waiting to explode out into our games. When PCs enter a new location and study their...

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Build a Faction List – Lazy GM Tip: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pSIfvwUQd4

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Build a Faction List – Lazy GM Tip

Mike shows how to build a useful faction list for your D&D and RPG campaigns.Visit the Sly Flourish Bloghttps://slyflourish.com/Subscribe to the Sly Flourish...

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RPG tip: Bathe your dungeon crawl in interesting lore.

#dnd #ttrpg

Made the setting and want to just blow your players away?

In addition to the 14 standard level up A5e classes, you can add spice to any DnD game with this doorstop collection of fine works.

Psychics, elementalists, witches and dare I say it? Elrics! I cannot overemphasise the hundreds of pages going here!

Check it out!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/479366/a5e-new-classes-bundle-bundle?affiliate_id=273871

#DnD #A5e #5e

4/6

Bored of tired, old, played-out settings that your players know better than you? Make your own!

With selkies!
A very cool take on snake people,

There's a handbook of heritages (and cultures!) all of which just plug in. Or make your own! (I wrote that last one!😜)

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/479369/a5e-premium-heritages-bundle?affiliate_id=273871

#DnD #5e #A5e

3/6

Here's a fun one!

Rules for adding exploration to your games of 5e and A5e DND.

Critical failure and success tables for skill checks,
vehicles to do cool stunts off, exploration encounters, exploration knacks for characters, and over a 100 new spells!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/479367/a5e-rules-expansions-bundle?affiliate_id=273871

#DnD #5e #A5e

2/6

Have you ever said, "Damn, that Level Up is a fine looking system, so many clever books, I should use it. If only it was on sale I could use it to add sparkle to my 5e games."

Well! Good news! It is!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?ruleSystem=1000104&format=45305?affiliate_id=273871

That's all the bundles from 3rd party developers. I'll tell you a bit about the individual ones below!

#A5e #LevelUpA5e #Dnd #5e

1/6

And finally here's some free stuff!

VTT tokens, with some amazing art compatible with the Monster manual.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/443894/level-up-monstrous-menagerie-vtt-tokens-a5e?affiliate_id=273871

NPC tokens!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/444029/level-up-holdenshire-npcs-vtt-tokens-a5e?affiliate_id=273871

A Free adventure! With a dragon!
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/403679/dragons-vs-biplanes?affiliate_id=273871

Never say I don't do anything nice for you! ;)

#5e #a5e #dnd

6/6

RPG tip from the archive: Advantage and disadvantage are your core ways to reward good ideas or great skill checks.

#dnd #ttrpg

RPG tip: Mix and match 5e elements from several published sourcebooks.

#dnd #ttrpg

RPG tip from the archive: End a session before a big fight and you can spend time planning out a nice fun encounter.

#dnd #ttrpg

RPG tip: Give characters a painful option to break out of effects that take away their actions.

#dnd #ttrpg

D&D 2024 Rules in the Creative Commons – Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daWWWS2ssZ0

#dnd #ttrpg

D&D 2024 Rules in the Creative Commons – Lazy RPG Talk Show

D&D and RPG news and commentary by Mike Shea of https://slyflourish.comVideo Contents00:00 Show Start01:48 D&D & RPG News: WOTC Announces the Upcoming Releas...

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D&D 2024 Rules in the Creative Commons – Lazy RPG Talk Show: Sly Flourish Podcast

https://slyflourish.podbean.com/e/dd-2024-rules-in-the-creative-commons-%e2%80%93-lazy-rpg-talk-show/

#dnd #ttrpg

D&D 2024 Rules in the Creative Commons – Lazy RPG Talk Show | The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

D&D and RPG news and commentary by Mike Shea of https://slyflourish.com Contents 00:00 Show Start 01:48 D&D & RPG News: WOTC Announces the Upcoming Release of 2024 Rules in the Creative Commons 05:28 D&D & RPG News: Black Flag SRD Released Under ORC …

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What Is 5e?: SlyFlourish.com

https://slyflourish.com/what_is_5e.html?rss=1

#dnd #ttrpg

What Is 5e?

The term 5e defines compatibility between the products of hundreds of publishers and the 2014 version of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game – known as 5th edition D&D. In early 2023, Wiz...

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RPG tip from the archive: Don't bring monsters out one at a time or they're likely to all get nuked one round after the next.

#dnd #ttrpg

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Tales of the Valiant impressions time!

what they promised broadly: an updated and more freely licensed game based very closely on D&D5e.

what we got broadly: pretty much that. and it's plenty good enough to switch to from 5e, even if it could have been better.

there's a lot of good and bad, gonna thread some thoughts

#ToV #DND #TTRPG

Lazy RPG Prep and the Lazy RPG Talk Show - LIVE: Sly Flourish Twitch Stream

https://www.twitch.tv/sly_flourish

#dnd #ttrpg

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RPG tip from the archive: Lower the hit points of monsters to speed up battles when they get boring or tedious.

#dnd #ttrpg

RPG tip: Each session think about the hooks between each character and elements from the next adventure.

#dnd #ttrpg

RPG tip from the archive: Characters stumbling into a battle between two other foes is an interesting twist to the monster closet.

#dnd #ttrpg

Horned Devil Bakis – Shadowdark Gloaming Session 28 Lazy GM Prep: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTebZLuBavE

#dnd #ttrpg

Horned Devil Bakis – Shadowdark Gloaming Session 28 Lazy GM Prep

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RPG tip: Test future boss fights with similar but reskinned interim battles.

#dnd #ttrpg

Everyone playing d&d ought to watch this brief dive into good D&D play.

Ginny made a great concise talking video that is fun, silly, and remarkably good advice for all games.

https://youtu.be/G-q_HLM4OvU?si=zb2zo9Fjyy1vk1Wa

#dnd #dnd5e #roleplaying #ttrpg

4 things great D&D players do (and you should, too)

Here's how to become your game master's favorite player (and maybe win a trophy! 🏆 Probably not. But maybe!)► Playing D&D with ADHD: https://youtu.be/xEYtpU...

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My latest #DnD #SoloRPG kit bag. I fit (almost) everything I need into one laptop bag - I can then not only have everything need at home in one place, but I can take it wherever I want and play #DungeonsAndDragons solo. See what's inside. https://bit.ly/4be4BqM

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Horned Devil Bakis – Shadowdark Gloaming Session 28 Lazy GM Prep: Sly Flourish Podcast

https://slyflourish.podbean.com/e/horned-devil-bakis-%e2%80%93-shadowdark-gloaming-session-28-lazy-gm-prep/

#dnd #ttrpg

Horned Devil Bakis – Shadowdark Gloaming Session 28 Lazy GM Prep | The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

Mike prepares for his Shadowdark RPG campaign, the Gloaming! Shadowdark RPG Campaign Notebook available to Sly Flourish patrons Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Book…

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Nazgûl for last Friday’s #LordOfTheFanarts art challenge. A few days late due to IRL events and not having the time nor the energy to draw.

#osr #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #characterart #fantasy #fantasyart #rpgartist #rpgart #lotr #digitalart #mastoart