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Sly Flourish's The Lazy Dungeon Master

By: Michael E. Shea
Narrated by: Colby Elliott
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You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master, you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time and less energy and have a better game as a result? It's time to unleash The Lazy Dungeon Master.

Written in the style of Sly Flourish's Dungeon Master Tips and Running Epic Tier D&D Games, The Lazy Dungeon Master shows a new approach to game preparation, one that takes less time and gives your game the freedom to grow at the table. This book will help a dungeon master prepare awesome games for any version of D&D.

Based on the real-world experiences of hundreds of dungeon masters and dozens of professional game designers, The Lazy Dungeon Master includes interviews with veteran D&D DMs and a complete toolkit to help you improvise an entire game. Whether you play 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Pathfinder, or the D&D Next playtest, The Lazy Dungeon Master has tips, techniques, and advice to make preparation easier and help you run a flexible and entertaining game.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2012 Michael E. Shea (P)2016 Last Word Audio, LLC Game Inspiring

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I really enjoy this audiobook. Just finished my second listen through after taking about a year, and I got a ton more out of it. The book is from the 4e era, but it all still fits.

Outdated for 5e, but concepts hold up

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If you are like me and you don't really prepare much at all this book was an interesting exploration of a way to look at running a table top RPG, especially D&D. If you are a DM who spends much time preparing for your game this is a MUST READ. It will help you learn how to prepare a better game in less time.

For a DM who prepares too much!

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I did like some of the advice from the author. I really like the advice from the dungeon masters he interviewed the most though. i liked he explai ed thoroughly went thru his process of allied Npcs and antagonist npcs. I enjoyed this book and would recommend even for novice dm's.

good advice

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As a DM who is often overwhelmed by the amount of prep work associated with bringing a module to to table in a competent manner, I found this book has a lot of helpful information about how to reduce some of the things that eat up a lot of time and don't provide a lot of in-game payoff. Also, the book gets to the point and doesn't waste a lot of time. At under 3 hours, it's not a huge time investment to get the knowledge it offers.

-1 star as it refers to a pdf a number of times that is supposed to be supplied with this audiobook that you never receive with Audible. It doesn't hamper things too much, but it really would have been nice to have.

Helpful tips for Dungeon Masters

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quick read that gives you a lot to reflect on. you get to see the concepts played out deferantly from 10 other gms points of view.

lot of stuff to take away

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I've been doing since the 1970s and tend to over prepare. the methods within this book seem promising, and look like they will bring back spontaneity and make my life easier. plus this book is very enjoyable

this is just what I needed

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liked a lot of the tips, most of the stuff I already do. still very informative.

good tips on running quick and easy d&d

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I'll frequently revisit this while driving, especially on days when planning a session... it really helps you focus on what you need to prepare, versus what you're avoiding doing by preparing things you don't need.

Short and sweet, which is the point!

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Pretty good tips, emphasis on quick preparation for games. Gets the message across in the form of interviews with other DMs.

Good tips, mostly from Q&As with other DMs

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May definitely listen to this a couple of times just to get ideas but overall love the audiobook

Great Tips

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