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Sly Flourish's Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

By: Michael E Shea
Narrated by: Colby Elliott
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Five years ago, the Lazy Dungeon Master offered a simplifed approach for preparing fantasy RPGs with one clear directive: Prepare only what most benefits our games. This focus on lightweight preparation and improvisational preparation resonated with many GMs over the past five years.

But during that time and with the release of the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, the world of fantasy roleplaying has changed and expanded. With five years of new systems and new ideas, all GMs have a wealth of experiences to share and explore to help us prepare and run great RPGs.

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master builds off of the concepts of the well-received GM's guidebook Lazy Dungeon Master, updating that book with five years of new experiences, new approaches, and new observations of the way people prepare and run RPGs. This new book is a completely self-contained work, which does not require anyone to have previously heard the Lazy Dungeon Master.

Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master offers a new focused approach for preparing and running our roleplaying games. The book includes an eight-step guide for lightweight game preparation and is focused on how we prepare for our games, how we run our games, and how we think about our games.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Michael E Shea (P)2018 Last Word Audio
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Learned some interesting techniques I will try out on the table, but most of these techniques I already been doing for over a decade now.

Some things I've been doing for years

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Super useful approaches to maximise the time invested into prepping a d&d game. A powerful tool to have at your disposal!

A simple book about a complicated book

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Listen, or more usefully, physically read and flip your way through this book. Keep what you like, dump the rest.

There is a lot of wisdom here learnt the hard way. Don't reinvent the wheel. Reduce time and stress in prep for games, and gain the confidence to play at all.

I dropped one star because frankly, this is really hard to follow as an audio book. Get the physical copy or kindle version.

A DM'S must have tool

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Well read and easy to digest in the form of an audio book. Probably worth listening to a couple of times to have it digest

Well worth a listen!

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Really useful for both professionals and noobies looking for a structured wat to prepare their tabletop rpgs

Great book!

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