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Dragon Empire Campaign Building Part 2 – Lazy GM Prep
Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Mike begins his campaign prep for his Dragon Empire Midgard-based Tales of the Valiant campaign! Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Podcast Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books Tales of the Valiant Midgard Worldbook
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Hey friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from Sly Flourish. Here with another episode of Sly Flourish's Lazy GM Prep. In this weekly show, I typically go through steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for my Sunday role-playing game.
I am not having a game today, so we are going to dive back into my campaign planning for my Tales of the Valiant game set in the Dragon Empire of Midgard, which is where we're going next after we finish our Shadow Dark Gloaming campaign. So we're going to dive into that.
We already have, there's one previous session, one previous episode where I've started my campaign planning around the Dragon Empire. So we're going to refresh ourselves on that and then we're going to flesh it out a bit more with the time that we have now. This show, like all of the work of Sly Flourish, is brought to you by the patrons of Sly Flourish.
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And if you wish to be a patron, there is a link down in the show notes. It's a fantastic deal. You get lots of really great stuff. Please, I hope you will check it out. So last time we began our campaign planning for the Dragon Empire set in the world of Midgard. So this is from the Midgard World Book.
And the Dragon Empire is a huge, known as the Maharadi Empire, is a huge nation on the eastern side of Midgard ruled over by, I think it was nine dragons? Nine?
Nine dragons who have made a pact to not fight each other and not fight over their different bouts of territory and instead create an empire that protects them and their wealth and everything else by electing a high sultan, a single sultan to rule over all of the lands, a humanoid who will rule over all of the empire on their behalf.
So that way they don't have to be involved in the daily politics of what's going on in this giant empire, super giant empire, super rich empire, but they don't have to manage it themselves. And instead they have this one central point, this grand, what do they call it, dread sultan? I think now it's a dread sultan. I don't know if it's always referred to as a dread sultan.
But this one sultan who commands over the entire empire and rules on their behalf, knowing that they are actually under the thumb of these great dragons. And we decided in our last prep session, we kind of said, okay, what do we want the characters to be and to be doing in this? And we liked the idea. Let's see. I'll pop over to my obsidian notes here.
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