Path to Blackspire – Dragon Empire Prep Session 18: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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Path to Blackspire – Dragon Empire Prep Session 18: Sly Flourish Podcast

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Path to Blackspire – Dragon Empire Prep Session 18 | The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

Mike prepares the next session of his Tales of the Valiant Dragon Empire campaign. Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Podcast Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books Midg…

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The #Venleitche #ttrpg uses sliding-scale Balances instead of fixed stats. Player actions may Push their Balances one direction or the other, sometimes to their benefit, sometimes not. Connections replace damage counters and hit points, tracking the character's links to their physical body, to the world's magic, and to the social fabric of their community. Actions may Spend or Burn Connection points, which must be restored to keep the player character functional. Together with Blowback, which brings home consequences of dire actions, these mechanics prevent the murderhobo. Try it, and your character becomes a monster stat block. Adventure in a world where the focus is on troubleshooting and repair.

Both books are released CC-NC-SA and free/pwyw. I'm more invested in getting these ideas in front of people than making a profit from them.

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Watch the Time: SlyFlourish.com Article from the Archive

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Watch the Time

"The key to becoming a great GM, more than anything else, is an understanding of pacing." - Monte Cook, Your Best Game Ever Understanding the pace of your game may be the most important skill you br...

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Avoid NPC Betrayal: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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Why do we make tiny dungeons, with cramped maps? Real caverns meander, like twenty miles of dropped spaghetti.

And the only way to represent miles of spaghetti is a metro-map.

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Folks, I've done it again: revolutionizing the tabletop roleplaying game with my new release today, FISHING IN THE SPEAKING LANDS.

You know how every MMO and CRPG has a fishing minigame?

You know how no TTRPG has a fishing minigame?

Well I've fixed that problem for you, for us, for everybody.

Fishing in the Speaking Lands is a fishing minigame that you can bolt on to any Cortex game you like!

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This week on my #TTRPG blog I posted a review of Modern Necessities by @scryingdutchman for the #OSE ruleset.

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Review – Modern Necessities: Professional Edition

Introduction The Scrying Dutchman did a Kickstarter for an Old-School Essentials resource book to support using the OSE ruleset in a modern setting of your choosing. I backed, because being able to…

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Memoirs of a Dracolich – Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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Shadowdark House Rules: SlyFlourish.com

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Shadowdark House Rules

I love Shadowdark. I ran a year-long campaign in Shadowdark and learned a lot about the system. The following is a list of house rules I've used that have made the Shadowdark experience more fun for m...

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If you picked up the first role-playing game in Swedish in 1982, here's what you were told on the box bottom:

"The silence feels complete as you slowly sneak in through the half-open gate. In front of you at the opposite wall is an iron-clad chest covered in decades of dust. Suddenly out of thin air a huge shape forms, half goat and half human -- you take a firmer grip on your sword hilt.

'Who dares disturb my rest' roars the demon.

The game master asks ''What do you want to do?""

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Memoirs of a Dracolich – Lazy RPG Talk Show: Sly Flourish Podcast

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Memoirs of a Dracolich – 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 01:17 Kickstarter Spotlight: Free5e 07:24 Kickstarter Spotlight: Alien RPG Evolved Edition 09:23 D&D & RPG News: New Miniatures for Sigil? Where's my G…

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You see people making solo play variants of traditionally gamemastered games, but you don't see people making gamemastered versions of journaling games — and this tells you there's a fundamental difference in what specifically designed journaling games are doing.

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We're just your local cyberspace #Queer and #Native found/led #indie #workerOwned game and #art #collective #cooperative thing!

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Running Hordes: The Lazy Way to Run Lots of D&D Monsters: SlyFlourish.com Article from the Archive

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Running Hordes: The Lazy Way to Run Lots of D&D Monsters

This article offers a simple system for running dozens to hundreds of monsters in your D&D battles. Rules Summary Tally damage done to any member of the horde in a single tally. Any time that tally i...

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Pool Table Game Mastering – Lazy GM Tip: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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Perhaps, but it hasn't been said in the form of a game!

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Sigil's Demise – Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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The 3-2-1 Quest Model: SlyFlourish.com

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The 3-2-1 Quest Model

Dragon of Icespire Peak in the 2019 D&D Essentials Kit has a wonderful quest model worth paying special attention to. I'm calling it the "3-2-1 quest model". First, put three quests out in front of th...

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Sigil's Demise – Lazy RPG Talk Show: Sly Flourish Podcast

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Sigil's Demise – 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 00:00:00 Show Start 00:01:09 D&D & RPG News: Delta Green, Dragonlance, and Kobold Press Humble Bundles 00:05:22 Kickstarter Spotlight: Zaminora Ballad of the Witch 00:0…

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Exactly 7 years ago, our #wiki got started!
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It was done with an announcement video from #notrightmusic:
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(so many differences! still true to the idea)

If you have anything nice to say about our page on its birthday, please write below, in a contextless easily retootable form. :)

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Shopping Cliffhanger – Dragon Empire Prep Session 17: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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Shopping Cliffhanger – Dragon Empire Prep Session 17: Sly Flourish Podcast

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Shopping Cliffhanger – Dragon Empire Prep Session 17 | The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

Mike prepares the next session of his Tales of the Valiant Dragon Empire campaign. Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Podcast Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books Midg…

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Flash Forward: SlyFlourish.com Article from the Archive

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Flash Forward

We've talked before, at length, about the joys and troubles of organic storytelling. For a quick summary, by focusing a story on the motivations and actions of our player characters and non-playing ch...

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