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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
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I ran this Theater of the Mind.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So I described it with my words and we used our brains and our imaginations that the characters were on a great big hill.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

There was an archway in the center of the hill.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

The hill was all made out of dead bodies and decomposed bodies that had been there for thousands of years.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And they first saw one ghoul

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And they killed that ghoul.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And then two more ghouls came up and they started killing those ghouls.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And then they heard the onslaught and they saw these waves of hundreds of ghouls coming towards them.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And they're like, uh-oh.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And that's when they were like, okay.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And they got into position and they got their spells ready.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And they hammered them with spells and destroyed them.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So the damage carrying over really helped.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And instead of tracking hit points, I tracked the number of ghouls.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So I knew there were 200 ghouls.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

I kept a little tally of 200 ghouls.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And every time a ghoul died, I would reduce that, basically keeping track of the number of dead ghouls until it hit 200 and then the ghouls are dead.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

So it was sort of like tracking the ghouls.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

lives rather than tracking hit points, right?

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
What Defines a Successful RPG? โ€“ Lazy RPG Talk Show

And that I actually was able to use my combat tracker in order to track damage done to the ghouls as in how many ghouls are still alive out of the 200.