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Mike Shea

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

He wants to raise the four dragons. So we have some big steps here. So I think that's kind of cool. And some of those, some of those, like, you know, the quest that these, this is the value of doing this sort of focus on villain. Like, well, who are the big villains in your campaign? Who are the big fronts? What are the three? This is right out of return to the lazy dungeon master.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

He wants to raise the four dragons. So we have some big steps here. So I think that's kind of cool. And some of those, some of those, like, you know, the quest that these, this is the value of doing this sort of focus on villain. Like, well, who are the big villains in your campaign? Who are the big fronts? What are the three? This is right out of return to the lazy dungeon master.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

He wants to raise the four dragons. So we have some big steps here. So I think that's kind of cool. And some of those, some of those, like, you know, the quest that these, this is the value of doing this sort of focus on villain. Like, well, who are the big villains in your campaign? Who are the big fronts? What are the three? This is right out of return to the lazy dungeon master.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

What are the three? What are their goals? And then what steps are they following through to follow through on those goals? You know, what are they doing to follow through on those goals? And I think that that's a valuable exercise to remind you what the horizon looks like in the campaign that you're running.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

What are the three? What are their goals? And then what steps are they following through to follow through on those goals? You know, what are they doing to follow through on those goals? And I think that that's a valuable exercise to remind you what the horizon looks like in the campaign that you're running.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

What are the three? What are their goals? And then what steps are they following through to follow through on those goals? You know, what are they doing to follow through on those goals? And I think that that's a valuable exercise to remind you what the horizon looks like in the campaign that you're running.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

And a lot of times you can take pieces of these and then drop them directly into the next session that you're running. So it still has value in that. What's the next what's the next session that we're running? So our strong start today, however, we, you know, that's all great.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

And a lot of times you can take pieces of these and then drop them directly into the next session that you're running. So it still has value in that. What's the next what's the next session that we're running? So our strong start today, however, we, you know, that's all great.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

And a lot of times you can take pieces of these and then drop them directly into the next session that you're running. So it still has value in that. What's the next what's the next session that we're running? So our strong start today, however, we, you know, that's all great.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

And we're thinking about these big dragons and their empires, but we got a game that's going to happen in like three hours. And we need to make sure that they're less than three hours, two and a half hours. So what do we want to have happen first? And we're going to have facing the gray thirster who sucks all the moisture out of the characters. Big exclamation mark on that. Scenes, Gray Thurster.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

And we're thinking about these big dragons and their empires, but we got a game that's going to happen in like three hours. And we need to make sure that they're less than three hours, two and a half hours. So what do we want to have happen first? And we're going to have facing the gray thirster who sucks all the moisture out of the characters. Big exclamation mark on that. Scenes, Gray Thurster.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

And we're thinking about these big dragons and their empires, but we got a game that's going to happen in like three hours. And we need to make sure that they're less than three hours, two and a half hours. So what do we want to have happen first? And we're going to have facing the gray thirster who sucks all the moisture out of the characters. Big exclamation mark on that. Scenes, Gray Thurster.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

The characters are fourth level, I think. I'm pretty sure they're fourth level now in our monsters. So if we have three fourth level characters, that's 12. 12 divided by four is three. So the max, so the lazy encounter benchmark is three. That means we can have up to about three CRs worth of monsters before things get really dangerous. That's if we have three.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

The characters are fourth level, I think. I'm pretty sure they're fourth level now in our monsters. So if we have three fourth level characters, that's 12. 12 divided by four is three. So the max, so the lazy encounter benchmark is three. That means we can have up to about three CRs worth of monsters before things get really dangerous. That's if we have three.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

The characters are fourth level, I think. I'm pretty sure they're fourth level now in our monsters. So if we have three fourth level characters, that's 12. 12 divided by four is three. So the max, so the lazy encounter benchmark is three. That means we can have up to about three CRs worth of monsters before things get really dangerous. That's if we have three.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

If we have four, then it goes up to four. That's handy, right? Yeah, this is another, if you want an even easier way to do the encounter benchmark, I don't know if it's that much easier. I was thinking about this. I don't know if this really works. Instead of worrying about the divide by four, divide by two, if you kind of assume, well, it doesn't really work.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

If we have four, then it goes up to four. That's handy, right? Yeah, this is another, if you want an even easier way to do the encounter benchmark, I don't know if it's that much easier. I was thinking about this. I don't know if this really works. Instead of worrying about the divide by four, divide by two, if you kind of assume, well, it doesn't really work.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

If we have four, then it goes up to four. That's handy, right? Yeah, this is another, if you want an even easier way to do the encounter benchmark, I don't know if it's that much easier. I was thinking about this. I don't know if this really works. Instead of worrying about the divide by four, divide by two, if you kind of assume, well, it doesn't really work.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

It's because the lazy encounter benchmark, one of the nice things that the lazy encounter benchmark does is it accounts for the number of characters, right? It accounts for four, there are four variables that are all included in in the Lazy Encounter benchmark. And it accounts for all four variables with one math equation. I think that's one reason why it's so valuable.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Pit of Unending Thirst – Dragon Empire Prep Session 7

It's because the lazy encounter benchmark, one of the nice things that the lazy encounter benchmark does is it accounts for the number of characters, right? It accounts for four, there are four variables that are all included in in the Lazy Encounter benchmark. And it accounts for all four variables with one math equation. I think that's one reason why it's so valuable.