Nimble Mid-Campaign Thoughts — Lazy RPG Talk Show
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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
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What Sly Flourish news is highlighted at the start of the episode?
Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to look at some Sly Flourish news. We're going to take a look at an old Sly Flourish Patreon adventure, Regnum Ratus, The Rats in the Cellar. One Ring and Lord of the Rings 5.5 is available on Backerkit. We're going to talk about this Backerkit campaign and decide whether or not it's the right campaign for you. There is a huge sale going on at Modiphius where you can get books for like under $10, hardcover books for under $10. Humble Bundle has a new bundle for the DMs Guild, for some DMs Guild products. The Dragonlance Design Group got together. We got to see Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss and Joe Manganiello and the WOTC team together, and they actually took pictures of their big planning board.
So we're going to dig into that. Wes Schneider and James Wyatt had an interesting discussion at Gen Con, which was recorded on the D&D YouTube channel. Today's commentary is going to be my mid-campaign thoughts on Nimble. I have now been running Nimble for a number of sessions for a little while now. And I think it's now not a bad time to kind of talk more about Nimble and give my initial thoughts. And then, of course, we'll do it again when my campaign ends. Today's GM tip is reasons to engage in travel encounters. When the characters are traveling from one place to another and they run into a situation, what would motivate them to want to get involved in that situation? And we're going to cover more questions from the 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. And my mom is here. Hi, Mom! So over on the Sly Flourish website, last week's article was Elective Action Order. This is an initiative variant that you can add into your RPG toolbox. This article was published over on Sly Flourish. Those who subscribe to the newsletter get articles like this sent directly to them. It's absolutely free to sign up for the newsletter. You totally should. And then you can get articles like this, which also include, and if you go to the bottom of the article, you can see it has links to all of the stuff, including topics from this talk show, links to this talk show, links to the Patreon Q&A, also RPG tips, other videos that I've done, all kinds of other stuff, including related articles.
So there's a good reason to subscribe to the Sly Flourish newsletter. You get really good information that way. For hero tier patrons of Sly Flourish, I also read this article aloud and did that on a separate podcast called Readings and Reflections.
What is the Regnum Ratus adventure and why is it featured?
This comes out every Thursday. It's about 10 or 12 minutes long. A podcast where I read out the article and then do sort of a director's commentary on it. What sort of got me to want to write that article? What are some other thoughts that I have? Some kind of feedback that I got. So if you want to dive in a little deeper into each of these articles, the best way to do so is become a hero tier patron of Sly Flourish and subscribe to the Readings and Reflections podcast. This upcoming article is just use bears. This is a concept originally written by Jack Shear back in 2016. I ran into it and knock issue one by the Mary Mushman. And the concept is that sometimes you have a stat block that just works really well for pretty much everything.
And whenever you're running out of a particular monster, you need a monster, and you don't really have one handy, just use bears. And the reason that you use the bear stat block is because the bear is usually tougher than a single character in low tiers, but still can be threatening to characters in higher tiers. So even in games that have a steeper power curve like five point like 5e has or 5.5 has you can um you can use monsters like a bear to threaten the characters like cr3 is actually a really good challenge i think bear is cr2 cr2s and cr3s are really good challenge ratings because they are good boss monsters early on they're good powerful elite monsters in sort of later early tier early levels or later levels and
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What Sly Flourish news is highlighted at the start of the episode?
0:00–2:23
2
What is the Regnum Ratus adventure and why is it featured?
2:23–8:49
3
What updates are there for the One Ring and Lord of the Rings 5e Kickstarter?
8:49–14:10
4
What are the details of the Modiphius warehouse clearance sale?
14:10–20:10
5
What are Mike Shea’s mid‑campaign thoughts on the Nimble RPG?
20:10–26:36
6
What DM tip does the episode give for travel encounters?
26:36–34:02
7
How can a Jaws‑inspired adventure be run using the Lazy DM’s Companion?
34:02–39:28
8
What resources and calls to action does the host provide for listeners?
39:28–1:12:59
Speakers
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