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Mike Shea

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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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

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.

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.

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

And this one is a good one where you can, Print out your stuff on a sheet of paper, use a glue stick, do some crafting work and make yourself some really fun two-dimensional paper miniatures that are custom made for the character that you've got. Really good trick. John G says, I'm wondering if you've ever struggled with a loss of choice and fun caused by a status effect.

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

And this one is a good one where you can, Print out your stuff on a sheet of paper, use a glue stick, do some crafting work and make yourself some really fun two-dimensional paper miniatures that are custom made for the character that you've got. Really good trick. John G says, I'm wondering if you've ever struggled with a loss of choice and fun caused by a status effect.

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

And this one is a good one where you can, Print out your stuff on a sheet of paper, use a glue stick, do some crafting work and make yourself some really fun two-dimensional paper miniatures that are custom made for the character that you've got. Really good trick. John G says, I'm wondering if you've ever struggled with a loss of choice and fun caused by a status effect.

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 agree with your what is realistic and what is fun, but several rules as written status effects like paralysis, unconsciousness, petrification, stunned, etc.

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 agree with your what is realistic and what is fun, but several rules as written status effects like paralysis, unconsciousness, petrification, stunned, etc.

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 agree with your what is realistic and what is fun, but several rules as written status effects like paralysis, unconsciousness, petrification, stunned, etc.

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

are perhaps realistic, but one, totally kill the fun for the players that are looking to see their characters do something cool, but at best lose the ability to make a choice on their next turn, roll a save, count down a timer, or worse, continually lose their turns. Two, on some level makes the group healer the gatekeeper for fun. Yeah. So it's a big one. And I do, I have a dirty trick.

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

are perhaps realistic, but one, totally kill the fun for the players that are looking to see their characters do something cool, but at best lose the ability to make a choice on their next turn, roll a save, count down a timer, or worse, continually lose their turns. Two, on some level makes the group healer the gatekeeper for fun. Yeah. So it's a big one. And I do, I have a dirty trick.

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

are perhaps realistic, but one, totally kill the fun for the players that are looking to see their characters do something cool, but at best lose the ability to make a choice on their next turn, roll a save, count down a timer, or worse, continually lose their turns. Two, on some level makes the group healer the gatekeeper for fun. Yeah. So it's a big one. And I do, I have a dirty trick.

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

It's in the Lazy DM's Companion. So in the Lazy DM's Companion, we have a stress effect. It's one of my favorite pages in this book. I love this book and I use it all the time. And stress effects, one of the things that I talk about in here, so stress effects is sort of my drop-in replacement for madness.

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

It's in the Lazy DM's Companion. So in the Lazy DM's Companion, we have a stress effect. It's one of my favorite pages in this book. I love this book and I use it all the time. And stress effects, one of the things that I talk about in here, so stress effects is sort of my drop-in replacement for madness.

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

It's in the Lazy DM's Companion. So in the Lazy DM's Companion, we have a stress effect. It's one of my favorite pages in this book. I love this book and I use it all the time. And stress effects, one of the things that I talk about in here, so stress effects is sort of my drop-in replacement for madness.

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

And there's lots of different ways that a stress effect could hit you, like witnessing a ghoul devouring a body or staring into a scrying pool showing the abyss. And then what I have people do is they roll and there's a different stress effect.

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

And there's lots of different ways that a stress effect could hit you, like witnessing a ghoul devouring a body or staring into a scrying pool showing the abyss. And then what I have people do is they roll and there's a different stress effect.

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

And there's lots of different ways that a stress effect could hit you, like witnessing a ghoul devouring a body or staring into a scrying pool showing the abyss. And then what I have people do is they roll and there's a different stress effect.

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

And the neat thing is that way it gives some theme to the idea, oh, you're not just stunned or feared, you instead have one of these things, like a terrible memory of your past comes to your mind, or you scream as blood flows from your mouth. Cool stuff, right? But one of the things I have is that you can add this, on a failed save, the character becomes stunned for one minute.

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

And the neat thing is that way it gives some theme to the idea, oh, you're not just stunned or feared, you instead have one of these things, like a terrible memory of your past comes to your mind, or you scream as blood flows from your mouth. Cool stuff, right? But one of the things I have is that you can add this, on a failed save, the character becomes stunned for one minute.

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

And the neat thing is that way it gives some theme to the idea, oh, you're not just stunned or feared, you instead have one of these things, like a terrible memory of your past comes to your mind, or you scream as blood flows from your mouth. Cool stuff, right? But one of the things I have is that you can add this, on a failed save, the character becomes stunned for one minute.