Sly Flourish
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Favorite Articles
- Playing D&D can Save Your Life
- How to Play D&D
- How to Be a Great D&D Dungeon Master
- The Minimum Viable D&D Game
- Playing D&D over Discord
- Notion.so for Lazy D&D Prep
- Running Theater of the Mind Combat
- The Lazy Encounter Benchmark
- Running Hordes
Latest Articles
- What Does Challenge Rating Mean in D&D 5e? - 28 Nov 2022
- Reinforce the Theme of your D&D Campaign - 21 Nov 2022
- Prep Lazy D&D With Handouts - 14 Nov 2022
- Running Dragons of Stormwreck Isle – The 2022 D&D Starter Set Adventure - 7 Nov 2022
- Build Cities Around the Characters - 31 Oct 2022
- Write Down Page Numbers on D&D Prep Notes and Character Sheets - 24 Oct 2022
- Reach Satisfying Campaign Conclusions - 17 Oct 2022
- Two Years Playing D&D Online - 10 Oct 2022
- Dealing with D&D Pre-Game Nervousness - 3 Oct 2022
- Convert and Scale Published D&D Adventures - 26 Sep 2022
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Sly Flourish's Books
- Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Lazy DM's Workbook
- Lazy DM's Companion
- Fantastic Lairs
- Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot
- Fantastic Adventures
- Fantastic Locations
Lazy Dungeon Mastering
- Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Choosing the Right Lazy DM Steps
- Running Session Zeros
- Review the Characters
- Start Strong
- Secrets and Clues
- Choosing Monsters
DM Tools
- Tools of the Lazy DM
- Safety Tools
- Writing a One-Page Campaign Guide
- Instant NPCs
- Lazy Monster Tokens
- Pointcrawls for Overland Travel
- Replace Flanking with Cinematic Advantage
- Lightning Rods – Showcase Powerful Character Abilities
- D&D Cheat Sheet
- Easy Initiative Cards
- Random Generators: Names, Monuments, Relics, Traps
DM Advice
- It's Five Minutes to Game Time
- A DM's Reading List
- Improving Pacing
- Upward and Downward Beats
- Thoughts on Exploration
- Thinking Two Horizons Out
- Quest Pattern: Three of Five Keys
- Running Heists
- Running Downtime Sessions
- Recovering from a Bad Game
- Thinking Through the Eyes of your Villains
Combat Encounter Building
- Guide to "Theater of the Mind" Combat
- The Deadly Encounter Benchmark
- The Abstract Battlemap
- Choose Monsters Based on the Story
- Dials of Monster Difficulty
- Reskinning Monsters
- Running Hordes
- Letting Go of Defined Encounters
- Run Easy Battles
- Running Wars
- Two Thugs in the Woods
- Set Piece Battles
- Improving Boss Fights
Running D&D Online
Campaign Outlines
- A World Without Heroes: A 1st to 20th level Campaign Outline
- Harvester of Worlds - A Githyanki Campaign
- The Hunger - A Gnoll Campaign
- Demogorgon Must Die
One-on-One D&D
Rules Discussion
- Darkvision Isn't as Good As You Think
- What Does Passive Perception Show You?
- Handling Surprise
- The Flow of Trap Detection
- The Old Man and the Bowl
D&D Surveys and Polls
- A Study of DM Tricks
- D&D Twitter and Facebook Polls
- Analysis of DM Traits
- 2016 D&D Survey Results
- 2012 D&D Survey Results
D&D Published Adventure Guides
- Guide to WOTC's D&D Adventures
- Running Lost Mine of Phandelver from the D&D Starter Set
- Running Dragon of Icespire Peak from the D&D Essentials Kit
- Combining the D&D Starter Set and Essentials Kit
- i6 Ravenloft and Curse of Strahd
- Tomb of Annihilation
- Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat
- Ghosts of Saltmarsh
- Storm King's Thunder
- Waterdeep Dragon Heist
- Out of the Abyss
- Rime of the Frostmaiden
- Descent into Avernus
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