Mike Shea

Hey my friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from Sly Flourish, here with another episode of Sly Flourish's Lazy GM Prep.

In this weekly show, I go through steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for my Sunday role-playing game.

In this case, I am running a game called Scourge of the Dragon Empire, using the Tales of the Valiant 5e rules from Kobold Press, set in the Dragon Empire region of Midgard, the campaign setting for Kobold Press.

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So I had a game last week.

I was kind of surprised.

It's the first game of the year.

This is my first game of the year and our first Lazy GM prep session of 2026, which is exciting.

And luckily, I had a game last week.

So even though we were kind of in the holidays between Christmas and New Year's, there were enough people.

In fact, we had everybody.

I think one person couldn't make it, ended up not being able to make it.

But everybody else made it, which means that my Sunday game has stayed on.

My Wednesday game, on the other hand, has not.

So I've unfortunately missed two of our Wednesday games.

So, yeah, so good news is we're having a game today.