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Write Down Your Encounter Benchmark
The lazy encounter benchmark for 5e helps GMs quickly benchmark whether an encounter might be deadly in 5e games like D&D 2014 and D&D 2024. Here's how it works: Choose the type and number of monster
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Manage Rests
Manage and clarify how often the characters rest to maintain the pacing and challenge of your RPG. How often characters rest in your RPG has a dramatic effect on the game. Too many rests and the chara
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Scenes and Situations
The eight steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master haven't changed for me over the past eight years and I've used them hundreds of times to prep my games with several different systems. What I do
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Three Choices
Offer three choices at several points in your games to give your players agency over the campaign they play. Selecting from three meaningful choices gives your campaign a clear direction, focuses wher
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Two Minute Session Zeros for Single Session Adventures
Session zeros help you and your players get on track to play a great adventure or campaign together. They help your players understand the specific game they're playing in, how their characters are in
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Just Use Bears
Find a simple stat block you can reuse and reskin into just about any monster you want. Keep the stat block handy to help you improvise monsters during your game. I first ran into the quote and idea b
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Elective Action Order – An Initiative Variant for your Toolbox
There are lots of ways to handle initiative in different RPGs. D&D has a variant which many of us use — roll a d20, add your dex mod, and go in order from highest to lowest. Shadowdark has an around-t
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What Excites You?
Focus your prep on what excites you about your next game. Use what excites you to motivate you to prepare and run your next session. Getting Overwhelmed It's easy to get overwhelmed when thinking abou
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Procedures
Eric F., a fine Patron of Sly Flourish asked about procedural play from games like OD&D, BX, and Dungeon World and asked whether they're helpful, where they're helpful, and how we might use them in di
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Lazy Improvised Monsters for Daggerheart
While running Daggerheart, I found myself seeking a generic set of adversary statistics I could use to improvise monsters during the game while also simplifying the process for building encounters. Wh
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Move Steps Forward
I recommend writing a new set of prep notes for each game session you run. And, of course, I recommend customizing the eight steps of lazy GM Prep based on your preferences and the game you're going t
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High-Value Tips, Tricks, and Tools
Some tips, tricks, or tools we use when prepping or running our RPGs provide multiple benefits for minimal effort, giving us super lazy GM powerhouse tricks. These high-value tricks take little time,
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Types of Lightning Rods for D&D and 5e
Lightning Rods are monsters selected to showcase specific character abilities in our D&D and 5e games. You can learn more about this concept in my article, Lightning Rods – Showcase Powerful Character