Experiences at Gamehole Con – Lazy RPG Talk Show
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Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to take a look at Defilers of Moonsilk Keep, a mega dungeon and mega product for Shadow Dark. We're going to look at Horizons Issue 1, Frontiers of Eberron, the Adventures in Teaching and Learning in TTRPG's Kickstarter, the Dwarven Forged Dungeons Reforged Gamefound crowdfunding campaign. I'm going to talk about my thoughts of the convention I just got back from from Gamehole Con, which was absolutely awesome, and I want to talk a little bit about that. Today's main RPG tip is going to be talking about pool table game mastering, an idea about how to stay free-flowing and yet have deep and rich stories without having to build out giant networks of games.
And we're going to cover more questions from the October 2024 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. The Lazy RPG Talk Show is brought to you by the patrons of Sly Flourish. Patrons get access to all kinds of tips, tricks, tools, adventures, scenarios, sourcebooks, and other things to help them run their tabletop role-playing games. They get access to the awesome Lazy RPG community over on our Discord server. and they help me put on shows like this. To the patrons of Sly Flourish, thank you so much for your outstanding support. Defiler of Moonsilk Keep is a Shadow Dark campaign. I got a review copy of this campaign sent by the creator, and I took a look at it, and I thought it looked really cool. You can pick this up on itch.io, I think. Yes, it's on itch.io for $5.00. And for five dollars, you get a whole lot of stuff for five dollars.
It is a hundred and seventy page shadow dark themed source book and adventure, kind of a multilayered adventure, very sort of original gray hockey style thing going on here. It includes a town that the town where everything is set. It includes NPCs and it includes a whole bunch of different things to run for an adventure. So if you are looking for some very cool art, really neat design, and I haven't read the whole thing cover to cover, but I dove in enough to say, does this look like it's worth five bucks? And it absolutely looks like it's worth $5. I think you're getting a really good deal for a $5 product. It's definitely bigger than like a curse scroll kind of zine. It's got a lot more depth than the curse scroll zines have for just good or ill. One of the nice things about curse scrolls is you can digest them really easily and then run off with them as I did for an entire year campaign with just one of them. But if you're looking for a little bit more detail, names of NPCs, stats for NPCs, regions...
The town of Havenford and the dungeons that exist nearby that you can explore, the various storylines that will take you to these dungeons, all kinds of things that are going on. It looks like a very cool Shadow Dark adventure. It starts at second level, so you might want to run a little like rat in the cellar kind of thing in order to get them from first to second level. And then one of the things I really liked is the idea of a multi-stage dungeon with lots of interconnections between them. It has some kind of fun mixtures of both isometric maps and top view maps. I don't know if it has a top view and an isometric for every map, but it seems like some of the maps in here definitely have both an isometric view.
So here's like a Dyson style top view map, but then here is the cool isometric version of that same map. which I thought looked really cool and gives you a much better stage of the depth of the dungeons that you're delving into. So that is the Defiler of Moonsilk Keep available on itch.io right now. You can take a look at that. You can find, of course, a link to this in the show notes below. Horizons is a new quarterly magazine being done by Hannah Rose, who worked over at MCDM and was the editor of the Arcadia magazine for MCDM and has brought her talents and her some colleagues with her here. to work on a new quarterly magazine funded through either directly through their website or through Patreon called Horizons. I did receive a preview copy of this as well.
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