RPG tip from the archive: Find opportunities to bring back older NPCs and villains. Don't make your players remember all new people when old ones will do.

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RPG tip: Take walks and think about your next game.

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RPG tip from the archive: Opposing factions within an enemy organization is a good way to add some interesting roleplaying and decisions to an otherwise slaughterfest.

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The Blood Spire – Dragon Empire Prep Session 43: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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RPG tip: Note important long-term NPCs. Bring them back often.

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The Blood Spire – Dragon Empire Prep Session 43: Sly Flourish Podcast

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RPG tip from the archive: What are the three most interesting features of the city your characters visit?

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RPG tip: Drop meaningful choices and decisions into long bouts of narrative.

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RPG tip from the archive: Choose the tools that help you best stay flexible and able to improvise during the game.

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Sly Flourish's Guide to to Narrative "Theater of the Mind" Combat in the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons: SlyFlourish.com Article from the Archive

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Sly Flourish's Guide to to Narrative "Theater of the Mind" Combat in the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons

Note, this guide has been updated since the original written in October 2015. This guide aims to help Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition DMs run narrative "theater of the mind" style combat. This style of...

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Run 200 Ghouls: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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RPG tip: Use a small tackle box to keep your rpg tools handy.

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RPG tip from the archive: Think of success and failures as analog dials instead of a binary True or False.

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RPG tip: Draw small maps as characters explore a location.

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RPG tip from the archive: Go with the rule of cool. If it sounds cool, work to help it happen

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Forgotten Realms Heroes and Adventures in Faerun Spotlight – Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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RPG tip: The simplest quest model: an NPC wants the characters to do something at a location.

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Three Alternative Initiative Options: SlyFlourish.com

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Three Alternative Initiative Options

Initiative is one of those strange mechanics that can suck all the excitement out of a situation. As soon as a battle is about to begin, we all sit down and do a bunch of accounting and mathematical r...

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Forgotten Realms Heroes and Adventures in Faerun Spotlight – Lazy RPG Talk Show: Sly Flourish Podcast

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Forgotten Realms Heroes and Adventures in Faerun Spotlight – 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 00:38 Sly Flourish News: Improv vs.

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RPG tip from the archive: Reveal grim portents.

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

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RPG tip: Give improvised monsters one feature that shows off their role in the world.

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The Void Dragon – Dragon Empire Prep Session 42: Sly Flourish Podcast

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The Void Dragon – Dragon Empire Prep Session 42: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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Improv Versus Prep – Sly Flourish Patreon Podcast: Sly Flourish Patreon Exclusive

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RPG Tip: Flavor monsters with connections to gods and villainous factions.

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RPG Tip: Keep last session's notes handy if you need to reference something.

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Project Sigial Ends – Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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RPG Tip: Write notes to yourself during the game. Take a picture with your phone for a digital record.

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Improv Versus Prep: SlyFlourish.com

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Improv Versus Prep

How often do you improvise NPCs during your game? When you do, what material helps you improvise them? What's missing from these improvised NPCs? Do you or your players notice? Given the answers to th...

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Project Sigil Ends – Lazy RPG Talk Show: Sly Flourish Podcast

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Project Sigil Ends – 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 01:01 Sly Flourish News: Gamehole Panels, Ravenloft with Shadowdark, Models Fuel Creativity, Prep Versus Improv 05:42 D&D & RPG News: StartPlaying.

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RPG Tip: Make sure players are ok with big in-game decisions by "pausing for a minute".

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RPG Tip: Use tokens to show monster positions even if you have no terrain to speak of.

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Top GM Tips Gamehole Con 2025 Seminar – Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video

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