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Mike Shea

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
18096 total appearances

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

The other one would be like everybody that dips into classes just to get shield. I would be like, can you just not do that? We already know shield is overpowered. You don't need an AC of 26. Can you just find another build other than I'm going to be the guy that never gets hit by anything.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So those are some things that I would do, but I don't really have like the hard list, but those are some of the ones that come to mind when you ask this question. John N. says, I absolutely love your advice and had the trick that I've been using for the Ruins of the Grindelwald campaign. Yay, Ruins of the Grindelwald campaign.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So those are some things that I would do, but I don't really have like the hard list, but those are some of the ones that come to mind when you ask this question. John N. says, I absolutely love your advice and had the trick that I've been using for the Ruins of the Grindelwald campaign. Yay, Ruins of the Grindelwald campaign.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So those are some things that I would do, but I don't really have like the hard list, but those are some of the ones that come to mind when you ask this question. John N. says, I absolutely love your advice and had the trick that I've been using for the Ruins of the Grindelwald campaign. Yay, Ruins of the Grindelwald campaign.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I bought game card stands from Amazon, link below, and made a Microsoft Word document with appropriate size full-color mirror images of the monsters slash bosses and sent them to a local print shop, i.e. FedEx office, for full-color heavy paper prints. I don't have a color printer and it's relatively inexpensive, about $1.50 a page. And for some really stand out images for my players.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I bought game card stands from Amazon, link below, and made a Microsoft Word document with appropriate size full-color mirror images of the monsters slash bosses and sent them to a local print shop, i.e. FedEx office, for full-color heavy paper prints. I don't have a color printer and it's relatively inexpensive, about $1.50 a page. And for some really stand out images for my players.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I bought game card stands from Amazon, link below, and made a Microsoft Word document with appropriate size full-color mirror images of the monsters slash bosses and sent them to a local print shop, i.e. FedEx office, for full-color heavy paper prints. I don't have a color printer and it's relatively inexpensive, about $1.50 a page. And for some really stand out images for my players.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I just cut them out, glue stick, fold in half and placed in the color standee for multiple opponents for the same monster. Yeah.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I just cut them out, glue stick, fold in half and placed in the color standee for multiple opponents for the same monster. Yeah.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I just cut them out, glue stick, fold in half and placed in the color standee for multiple opponents for the same monster. Yeah.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

great trick right and if you look at it printable heroes who's a patron that i that i that i belong to printable heroes does awesome work with making two-dimensional you know what we call like two and a half d because they're like they're they're paper standees and has really good you know ways to print them out in pdf so that you can get them beautiful beautiful stuff and they work really well a new one that i just saw for that if you wanted to like get in with a group order for you and your players when you're starting a campaign

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

great trick right and if you look at it printable heroes who's a patron that i that i that i belong to printable heroes does awesome work with making two-dimensional you know what we call like two and a half d because they're like they're they're paper standees and has really good you know ways to print them out in pdf so that you can get them beautiful beautiful stuff and they work really well a new one that i just saw for that if you wanted to like get in with a group order for you and your players when you're starting a campaign

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

great trick right and if you look at it printable heroes who's a patron that i that i that i belong to printable heroes does awesome work with making two-dimensional you know what we call like two and a half d because they're like they're they're paper standees and has really good you know ways to print them out in pdf so that you can get them beautiful beautiful stuff and they work really well a new one that i just saw for that if you wanted to like get in with a group order for you and your players when you're starting a campaign

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

on your assumption that your character is going to live long enough that it's worthwhile is hero forge now has 2d acrylic miniatures that are very reasonably priced especially getting all the customization that you can do michelle my wife just recently got two of these one of my players and one of my games got one and they look great they look as good as regular minis as far as i'm concerned they're they're nice thick acrylic they're they're laser cut around the image

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

on your assumption that your character is going to live long enough that it's worthwhile is hero forge now has 2d acrylic miniatures that are very reasonably priced especially getting all the customization that you can do michelle my wife just recently got two of these one of my players and one of my games got one and they look great they look as good as regular minis as far as i'm concerned they're they're nice thick acrylic they're they're laser cut around the image

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

on your assumption that your character is going to live long enough that it's worthwhile is hero forge now has 2d acrylic miniatures that are very reasonably priced especially getting all the customization that you can do michelle my wife just recently got two of these one of my players and one of my games got one and they look great they look as good as regular minis as far as i'm concerned they're they're nice thick acrylic they're they're laser cut around the image

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

They're very durable. You don't have to worry about them breaking. They fold flat. Like you can pop it out of its stand and lay it flat. So it's really portable. They look really, really good. So that's a cool option too. It's a little bit more expensive. I don't know if you can do that overseas, but I know in the States, they're like 16 bucks a piece, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

They're very durable. You don't have to worry about them breaking. They fold flat. Like you can pop it out of its stand and lay it flat. So it's really portable. They look really, really good. So that's a cool option too. It's a little bit more expensive. I don't know if you can do that overseas, but I know in the States, they're like 16 bucks a piece, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

They're very durable. You don't have to worry about them breaking. They fold flat. Like you can pop it out of its stand and lay it flat. So it's really portable. They look really, really good. So that's a cool option too. It's a little bit more expensive. I don't know if you can do that overseas, but I know in the States, they're like 16 bucks a piece, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

For a custom mini, like 16 seems a little high, but it's like, it's already full color. You don't have to do any painting or anything like that. And you can generate a very specific character mini. And that's way less money than getting a 3D printed version of that creature. So, and it's more durable too. So I like that too. So yeah, there's lots of good tricks.