Four Histories of D&D – Lazy RPG Talk Show
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Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to look at the Worldographer Kickstarter, the Shadow City Mysteries crowdfunding campaign, the huge level up advanced 5e bundle of holding going on. We're going to look at the Draw Steel Creators License by MCDM, the Shadow Dark Quick Monster Stats by Matt Dietrich. And today we're going to dive deep into the history of D&D with a whole bunch of resources that have only come out in the past few months, some of which I've already talked about on the talk show, but how all of this comes together to give us a really different view of what D&D is like and where it came from. And today we're going to talk about instant monsters. How can you build a monster almost instantly to drop into your 5e game? and we're going to cover more questions from the september 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 this show is brought to you by the patrons of sly flourish patrons get access to all kinds of tips
tricks, tools, source books, adventures, and other things to help you run your tabletop role-playing games. They get access to the awesome Lazy DM community over on Discord, and they also help me put on shows like this to the patrons of Sly Flourish. Thank you so much for your outstanding support. my friend joe over at inkwell ideas has a new crowd funding campaign for his top product known as the worldographer worldographer has been around for god i don't know 15 years 10 or 15 years he'd have to tell me it is a local client-based application to help you build out your fantasy world it lets you fill in hex maps And it used to be a series of separate tools, Worldographer, Cityographer, and Dungeonographer, which are now all together in one big package. And he has a new version of this coming out called Worldographer 2025. Even though it's called 2025, it's actually coming out in 2024, sort of like the new car model. And you can see all of the different kinds of things that this tool can do.
One of the things I really love is it installs to your computer. Unlike a web app, the company goes out of business, or if you're just in a bad connection, you can keep using it. You hear me talk about that all the time. If you cannot download it and stick it on a USB drive, you don't really own it. So you get to really own this application. Lots of different generators to build worlds, to build cities, to build dungeons. All of it inside this application. There's a whole bunch. He runs both a Patreon, which you should check out, but also has a bunch of different tools available on DriveThruRPG, different icon packs and different artwork packs that you can add into it to build it out, whether you're running science fiction adventures or apocalyptic adventures or, of course, fantasy adventures or fantasy campaigns. You can build that out. Here's one that's like a star map.
So you can do a whole bunch of different things with this one tool. He's been building it for a really long time. It's a really cool application. And you can get a free demo of it with one click. You go download it from our website. You click that. On the website is a Worldographer for Windows. The Java file, it's a Java-based application. So as long as you have Java installed, you can run it. You can run it on Linux and you can run it on the Mac. So runs on pretty much everything. So the crowdfunding campaign is going on now, going very well. And if you want to support this excellent application, get access to this excellent application. I think he has a bunch of videos too. There's a bunch of different video previews for the world kingdom functionality, battle map changes, city and village mapping. So if you want to see what it's like, you can check out the YouTube videos for it. Looks really, really cool. So that is the Worldographer 2025 backer kit going on right now. You can find a link to that down in the show notes.
Shadow City Mysteries tabletop RPG based on 5e in a setting of clockwork noir it reminds me a bit of Invisible Son the Monty Cook games one and that it's set in kind of a current day or sort of a more contemporary environment but has all kinds of strange like occult like mysteries going on Looks like a really cool system and or like a cool game has like its own tarot card going on here.
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