The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D Beyond Removes D&D 2014 Material – Lazy RPG Talk Show
Mon, 26 Aug 2024
D&D and RPG news and commentary by Mike Shea of https://slyflourish.com Contents 00:00 Show Start 02:30 D&D & RPG News: D&D Designers of All Editions Talk About and Play D&D 06:05 D&D & RPG News: Kelsey Dionne of Shadowdark on Morrus's Unofficial Tabletop RPG Podcast 07:04 Commentary: WOTC Removes 2014 Spells, Items, and Rules from the D&D Beyond Character Builder 28:06 DM Tip: Track the Characters 42:07 Patreon Question: Running Short Games for Large Groups 46:14 Patreon Question: Favorite D&D 2024 Rule? 48:47 Patreon Question: Running Mastermind and Dark Nemesis Bosses 51:49 Patreon Question: Releasing the Forge of Foes Generic Monster Stats into the CC 57:47 Patreon Question: What's In your DM - GM Kit? Links City of Arches Kickstarter! Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books: D&D Designers of All Editions Talk About and Play D&D - Celebrating 50 Years of Dungeons & Dragons Kelsey Dionne on Morrus's Unofficial Tabletalk Podcast D&D Beyond Removes 2014 Spells, Items, Magic Items, and Rules from the Character Builder Further "Clarification" EN World Thread – How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules D&D Beyond, Wizards of the Coast, 5e, and You Lazy GM's 5e Monster Builder Resource Document
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Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to take a look at the awesome Gen Con TV videos that have celebrated 50 years of D&D. Kelsey Dion is on Morris's unofficial Table Talk podcast. We're going to take a big look at the changes to D&D Beyond and how they are handling. the 2014 D&D information in D&D Beyond, what it means, what we can do about it, all that kind of stuff.
Today's big D&D tip is going to be what we should be tracking for characters. What kind of information should we be tracking? And when we talk about focusing on the characters of our game, what should we be focusing on? And we're going to cover more tips from the August 2024 Patreon Q&A all today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show.
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There was, my friend Teos Abadie showed me, brought up a really cool series of videos that Gen Con TV has been putting together. Gen Con TV is run by Peter Ackeson. He is the creator of, the owner of Wizards of the Coast before it was sold to Hasbro. He's... kind of there at the early days when they were building Magic the Gathering. And he was the person who bought Dungeons and Dragons from TSR.
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