Dragon Empire Campaign Building Part 2 – Lazy GM Prep
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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.
Patrons get access to all kinds of great tips, tricks, tools. adventures, source books, all kinds of stuff to help them run their tabletop role-playing games. They have access to the awesome Lazy DM community over on Discord. And most of all, they help me put on shows like this. To the patrons of Sly Flourish, thank you so much for your support. 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. So we decided, let's look at our campaign notes. So, we had a small band of heroes in the outer fringes of the greatest empire on Midgard begins their journey to fleece, subvert, and thwart the tyranny of the Maharati dragon empire. We really like this idea. I really kind of dug this idea of that, you know, it's sort of like a Ocean's Eleven in the richest empire that's going on.
We came up with our truths. So I put all of this stuff together. And then after the show, I put it together a one-page campaign guide for my players. And this is the current one-page campaign guide here. where i took all that material that we kind of put together and put it together into a nice nicely formatted one-page guide that i can send to my players probably a few days before we get together i don't want to here's a here's a trick if i send this to them too early they will abandon the current campaign and they will already start building characters around this one without talking to one another and i really don't want them to do that i want us to build our characters together to during the session so that they will be riffing off one another before we do it and that can be messy it's kind of messy to build characters at the table together there's a lot of like well what do you want to build i don't know what are you going to build well i was thinking about a monk well but i don't have to do if you don't want to and you're like you know what that kind of mess is okay because at least they're talking about what other characters they're going to come with so a lot of times what i'll say is like you don't have to come with a character concept you can come up with a character concept at the session zero
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