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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.

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

©2012 Michael E. Shea (P)2016 Last Word Audio, LLC
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Its short but this is because the author wrote a sharp concise argument similar to a lecture about how most DMs waste time on elements that mean little to the players and don't add extra fun in their games.
This helped me greatly run better games as I was falling into the trap of unnecessary world and monster building and could not see the self induced stress it was causing me.
Recommended for any level of DM/GM.

Best source that helped me with my DM-ing

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very helpful for a aspiring dm who overthinks my campaigns and often gets bogged down

helpful

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I think that I will be coming back to re-listen to this every now and then.
Lots of good ideas and resources

To be revisited

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