Session Prep and Encounter Building in the D&D 2024 DMG – Lazy RPG Talk Show
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Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to take a quick look at the Blades in the Dark expansion that just came out. We have two big topics that are both going to take a look at the D&D 2024 Dungeon Masters Guide, but then also talk larger about the tips that we can pick up from this that we can actually use in our game. The first one of these is the question of what do you actually need to prep for a session of your game? A topic that I have been talking about for many years, but we're going to dive into again, and we're going to take a look at it in the context of the 2024 Dungeon Masters. guide we're also going to take a look at encounter building with the lazy encounter benchmark something else that i spent a significant amount of time working on and compare that to the encounter building guidelines that are offered in the dnd 2024 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, adventure scenarios, city source books, all kinds of stuff to help you run your fantasy role-playing games. You also get access to the awesome Lazy RPG community, the Sly Flourish community over on Discord, and you get to help me put on shows like this. To the patrons of Sly Flourish, thank you so much for your outstanding support. I missed it when it first happened, but there is now an official Blades in the Dark expansion called Deep Cuts that was made by Jonathan Harper. If you recall, I ran a Blades in the Dark campaign about, I guess it'd be a couple of years back by now. We went and ran a whole bunch of different RPGs.
Blades in the Dark was one of them. I had trouble running it as a game master. The style of the game didn't sit with me well, but I have huge respect for Blades in the Dark. I think it is a really outstanding role-playing game. Many people have enjoyed it thoroughly. It has this kind of steampunk heist idea going on to it. It's really fun. And there is an expansion for it called the Blades in the Dark Deep Cuts. You can pick this up on itch.io on John Harper's site. You can find a link to it in the show notes. 10 bucks gets you access to this whole thing. And let's take a look at what it has. It's my first time actually really opening it. I just picked it up. I picked it up Friday, I think. So in it, you find a whole bunch of new sheets for the different kinds of characters that you can play. I really like them. These are really cool. Oh, look, vampire. Oh, man, I'm in. You get to play a vampire? Oh, and cult. Yeah. Or is that a group? I think these are groups. So you can both be a cult member and a vampire. That's very cool.
So it looks like new sheets are one of the things that you get in here, but I really love one page sheets that you can print out in that sort of apocalypse world style workbooks. here is a deep cock setting and systems expansion fortune the dark 118 page expansion so for 10 bucks you're getting a pretty good amount of stuff i have not looked at it this is literally the first time i'm opening it up so it looks like it's got a lot of cool stuff though i'm a big fan of all the stuff that i found in blades in the dark the idea of clocks worked really well for me so i was it was no problem i did not get a preview copy of this i went and picked up my own copy for 10 bucks If you are a fan of Blades in the Dark, check out the Blades in the Dark deep cuts. It was kind of, it showed up on my radar. It wasn't something that I immediately heard about. So I heard about it on another show. I was over on Morris's unofficial tabletop podcast on Friday and they mentioned it. And I was like, ooh, and during the podcast, I bought it.
And I'm like, well, it cost me $10 to be on this podcast because I picked it up. So I think it's pretty cool. So take a look at the Blades in the Dark deep cuts now available on itch.io. Link is down in the show notes.
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