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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
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

A lot of times it's a shady entity. And I like the shady ones, and the players know it's a shady one, because then it can bounce back and forth. It never just takes over a character. On occasion, I will have characters roll charisma checks to see if it influences them even more so than just by talk. But it's far more fun to have the... the item convince the player to use it in certain ways.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

One problem I have is I have a player who absolutely loves these items and always does what they say because he is very much, the player is very much a move the story forward in a fun way sort of player, you know, and we're always careful that he doesn't like ruin the game by going off in some crazy direction, but he's always, he was the first one to open a door, first one to grab an item that's dangerous, all that kind of stuff.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

One problem I have is I have a player who absolutely loves these items and always does what they say because he is very much, the player is very much a move the story forward in a fun way sort of player, you know, and we're always careful that he doesn't like ruin the game by going off in some crazy direction, but he's always, he was the first one to open a door, first one to grab an item that's dangerous, all that kind of stuff.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

One problem I have is I have a player who absolutely loves these items and always does what they say because he is very much, the player is very much a move the story forward in a fun way sort of player, you know, and we're always careful that he doesn't like ruin the game by going off in some crazy direction, but he's always, he was the first one to open a door, first one to grab an item that's dangerous, all that kind of stuff.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

He does it all the time. So we have Katel, who is a follower, chain devil follower of Mott, held in the puzzle cube. That is our other NPC. I'm going to make sure that all these NPCs are in my NPC list. I'm pretty sure they are. Yeah, I already have Fame Werewatcher in here. I already have, do I have Sister Ethelia in here? I don't see Sister Ethelia in here. So that's good.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

He does it all the time. So we have Katel, who is a follower, chain devil follower of Mott, held in the puzzle cube. That is our other NPC. I'm going to make sure that all these NPCs are in my NPC list. I'm pretty sure they are. Yeah, I already have Fame Werewatcher in here. I already have, do I have Sister Ethelia in here? I don't see Sister Ethelia in here. So that's good.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

He does it all the time. So we have Katel, who is a follower, chain devil follower of Mott, held in the puzzle cube. That is our other NPC. I'm going to make sure that all these NPCs are in my NPC list. I'm pretty sure they are. Yeah, I already have Fame Werewatcher in here. I already have, do I have Sister Ethelia in here? I don't see Sister Ethelia in here. So that's good.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

And I don't have Katel in here yet. So that works. So I think that those NPCs are pretty good right now. Any other NPCs that we want to drop in here? We had, I'd like to find them. It's a nice thing about keeping like old notes. So we have Vincent Blackspell, who might be interesting to drop in. This is a dwarven cult fanatic of the Sanguine Path. I think we might drop that in here.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

And I don't have Katel in here yet. So that works. So I think that those NPCs are pretty good right now. Any other NPCs that we want to drop in here? We had, I'd like to find them. It's a nice thing about keeping like old notes. So we have Vincent Blackspell, who might be interesting to drop in. This is a dwarven cult fanatic of the Sanguine Path. I think we might drop that in here.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

And I don't have Katel in here yet. So that works. So I think that those NPCs are pretty good right now. Any other NPCs that we want to drop in here? We had, I'd like to find them. It's a nice thing about keeping like old notes. So we have Vincent Blackspell, who might be interesting to drop in. This is a dwarven cult fanatic of the Sanguine Path. I think we might drop that in here.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

Who else do we have? Wow, I had some of these guys planned for a while. A Tekros Glorybrite, a Priest of Hewn, I want to introduce. And Brother Cleo Cloudsoother. So I have two Priests of Hewn. I think that works. I think we're good there. I'm getting, like, complicated in my NPCs. Like, I'm already going to forget the... I should write them in my notes.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

Who else do we have? Wow, I had some of these guys planned for a while. A Tekros Glorybrite, a Priest of Hewn, I want to introduce. And Brother Cleo Cloudsoother. So I have two Priests of Hewn. I think that works. I think we're good there. I'm getting, like, complicated in my NPCs. Like, I'm already going to forget the... I should write them in my notes.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

Who else do we have? Wow, I had some of these guys planned for a while. A Tekros Glorybrite, a Priest of Hewn, I want to introduce. And Brother Cleo Cloudsoother. So I have two Priests of Hewn. I think that works. I think we're good there. I'm getting, like, complicated in my NPCs. Like, I'm already going to forget the... I should write them in my notes.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

So, like, who was the... Back when they killed one of the... Yeah, Eris Dawngaze, right, is now dead. So I need to put Eris into my NPC notes because the fact that he's killed is going to matter in future. Whoops. It's going to come up because the agents of the Dragon Empire are going to want to know what happened to Eris. And that's going to come around, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

So, like, who was the... Back when they killed one of the... Yeah, Eris Dawngaze, right, is now dead. So I need to put Eris into my NPC notes because the fact that he's killed is going to matter in future. Whoops. It's going to come up because the agents of the Dragon Empire are going to want to know what happened to Eris. And that's going to come around, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

So, like, who was the... Back when they killed one of the... Yeah, Eris Dawngaze, right, is now dead. So I need to put Eris into my NPC notes because the fact that he's killed is going to matter in future. Whoops. It's going to come up because the agents of the Dragon Empire are going to want to know what happened to Eris. And that's going to come around, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

Like there's repercussions for the things that they've done. So that's worth doing. So I've got those NPCs. I think we're probably good there. I want to, one thing that I commonly forget to do is that focus on the characters. The characters are known as the Drake park regulators. That is the name they have chosen. That's because they sell Drake park water at the four 40 fingers.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

Like there's repercussions for the things that they've done. So that's worth doing. So I've got those NPCs. I think we're probably good there. I want to, one thing that I commonly forget to do is that focus on the characters. The characters are known as the Drake park regulators. That is the name they have chosen. That's because they sell Drake park water at the four 40 fingers.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

Like there's repercussions for the things that they've done. So that's worth doing. So I've got those NPCs. I think we're probably good there. I want to, one thing that I commonly forget to do is that focus on the characters. The characters are known as the Drake park regulators. That is the name they have chosen. That's because they sell Drake park water at the four 40 fingers.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Blood Magic โ€“ Dragon Empire Prep Session 10

So to gout, gout, Denzia is not there. And I have to see if I can find his name. Then our new, our new character. And who is that? Rowan is not there. The other four are there, and my friend, the on-call player, is there. And I'm hoping I put him in the characters. It does not look like I did. So I really need to, in my notes, write down my friend's character, who I think he's a ranger.