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  • Sly Flourish's Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

  • By: Michael E Shea
  • Narrated by: Colby Elliott
  • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (90 ratings)

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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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Summary

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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The Best Book for Dungeon Masters

This book is so good I have it in audible, pdf and a physical copy

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Great guide to being a GM!

Really helpful and useful guide on how to put efficient but not time consuming work in to running a campaign

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Well worth a listen!

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

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must read for game's masters of all kinds

takes alot if the mystery and anxiety bout if be ing a DM.
I use it's advice in every game I run and that are more fun and less stressful for it

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A DM'S must have tool

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.

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Some things I've been doing for years

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.

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5 stars with proper chapter details.

narrator's voice is easy to listen to. My only issue is I want to go back and listen to some of the sections but there are no meaningful names for the chapters.

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Great book!

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

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A simple book about a complicated book

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

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Lots of padding

Good and useful ideas but could have been done in half the time without the uneccessary repetition.

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