D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look – Lazy RPG Talk Show
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Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to look at Horizon Issue 2. I'm going to talk about Teos Abadie Alpha Stream's excellent video on the Monster Manual math for the D&D 2025 Monster Manual. D&D, does your game look like the D&D game that took place at Madison Square Gardens? We're going to have a little bit of a conversation about that. The fantastic thread about the early days of the fifth edition of D&D and the current version of fifth edition D&D with a discussion, a pretty heated discussion between two different leads for the D&D team took place over on EN World. The thread is now closed, but I thought it was worth talking about. It was a fascinating thread, probably the most interesting thread I've seen on EN World.
We're going to have a quick glance at the 2025 Monster Manual. I'm going to do a bigger review in a couple of weeks, but we're going to do just a quick little glance, and I'm going to give you some initial thoughts. Today's big DM topic is avoiding the zeitgeist, how not to get caught up in the giant turmoil of the RPG industry. This is really self-therapy is what you're going to see. How do we not get caught up in the big zeitgeist of what's going on and remember that we are just there at a table playing a game with our friends? And we're going to have more questions from the Sly Flourish Patreon Q&A all today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show. I'm Mike Shea, your pal from Sly Flourish, here to talk about all things in tabletop role-playing games.
This show was brought to you by, is brought to you by the patrons of Sly Flourish. Patrons get access to all kinds of tips, tricks, tools, databases, and... scenarios and adventures and campaign books and all kinds of awesome stuff that you get for being a patroness life flourish it's a very reasonable price it directly supports me in the work that i do so if you like the work that i do and you want to give back that is a fantastic way to give back and you get access to the awesome lazy dm community that we have over on discord we have awesome conversations if you wanted for example yesterday when i received that yesterday was saturday my day off but i got the 2025 monster manual And myself and patrons of Sly Flourish got to go through. I went on stage. I took a bunch of screenshots and we talked all about it. I think we probably spent like two hours talking about the 2025 Monster Manual. That sort of thing is the sort of thing that you get over in the Lazy DMs community that is available to patrons of Sly Flourish. Horizon Magazine.
So Horizon Magazine is published by Wild Mage Press. Hannah Rose is the editor-in-chief. Hannah Rose was the editor. She was the lead editor for Arcadia, which was the Dragon Style magazine that was being produced by MCDM a while back. And she has since left MCDM and now has a new publishing imprint, Wild Mage Press. And they are putting out a quarterly magazine called Horizons. And this is Horizons issue two. And it's absolutely fantastic. You can get Horizons Magazine by subscribing to Horizons Magazine through their website and through Patreon. And that gives you access to Horizons Magazine now and quarterly access. And they release other things intermittently during the quarter. But holy cow, it is a really good-looking magazine. The layout is fantastic.
Editing is great. It's a really, really fun thing that very much reminds me of Dragon Magazine of old. One thing is that it actually covers a variety of different systems. So they've had Pathfinder 2 content in some of them. They still, of course, have a lot of 5e content in them. This one actually is the first time that they have some character options from Candela Obscura, which is another one. It is a digital-only magazine. This is a PDF magazine. Nobody can afford to put magazines out in print anymore. It's very, very, very, very difficult to do. So some of the interesting things it has, this Ozeld's Tome of Esoteric Spells is really interesting. It reminds me of one of the most popular supplements that I had used at my game, which was the Blasphemies of Bor Bwalesh, which was Robert Schwab's, some of Robert Schwab's spells from Shadow the Demon Lord converted to 5e. It was a very small PDF, but when I used it, I gave it to hags to use. And then the characters got access to some of the hag magic. And I have a player who still brings it up.
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