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The End of One D&D – Lazy RPG Talk Show
24 Feb 2025
D&D and RPG news and commentary by Mike Shea of https://slyflourish.com Contents 00:00 Show Start 01:20 D&D & RPG News: Kobold Press Black Flag SRD in Markdown 04:20 Kickstarter Spotlight: Creating and Adapting Monsters for Shadowdark 06:11 D&D & RPG News: Mike Mearls on Dungeon Craft 08:03 Commentary: How Bonus Actions Changed 14:31 Commentary: GM-Focused Products as Advanced Software for Advanced Users 21:06 Commentary: Experiences with the D&D 2025 Monster Manual Adult Black Dragon 29:31 DM Tip: Legendary Resistance Alternatives 39:51 Commentary: The End of One D&D 49:02 Patreon Question: Running Frostmaiden with Shadowdark 51:58 Patreon Question: Additional Roles for Exploration 53:38 Patreon Question: Did I Negate Character Abilities and Take Away Player Agency? 56:08 Patreon Question: Should I Kill Shadowdark Characters with Big Backstory? 58:38 Patreon Question: Is Your YouTube Channel Dying? Links Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books: Kobold Press Black Flag SRD in Markdown Creating and Adapting Monsters for Shadowdark Kickstarter Mearls on Dungeoncraft
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Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to look at Black Flag's system reference document, Kobol Press's system reference document for Tales of the Valiant released in Markdown. We're going to look at the Creating Monsters for Shadow Dark Kickstarter. Mike Merles was recently on Dungeon Craft talking to Professor Dungeon Master. We're going to dig into some of the things they talked about.
I'm going to talk about my personal experiences having run a 2025 Monster Manual Adult Black Dragon versus my 9th level group. We're going to talk into Legendary Resistance alternatives today. Alternatives for Legendary Resistance. We're going to talk about the end of 1D&D. What is the end of 1D&D? Have we reached the end of 1D&D? I believe we have. We're going to dive into that.
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 to you 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
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To the patrons of Sly Flourish, thank you so much for your outstanding support. There has been a lot of drive and interest in getting more RPG products available in Markdown. A lot of times because people are starting to use Obsidian to do a lot of game planning and to organize their stuff. Obsidian loves Markdown.
If you want to know more about Obsidian, check out obsidian.md, I think is the name of the site. It's a tool that you can have on your phone or your computer. Helps you keep track of notes, but it keeps it all in a very standard and easy to use format called Markdown. If you want to learn more about Markdown, you can Google Markdown and look into it.
But Markdown is a very simple syntax for storing information. A lot of RPG products are now starting to do stuff in, I wouldn't say a lot. There are several RPG products that are starting to do stuff in Markdown, including a lot of the stuff coming from Raging Swan. This is the first publisher I have seen that was releasing stuff in Markdown. Got me excited about it.
So I'm going to start releasing stuff in Markdown. Well, one of the new things we have is the Black Flag System Reference Document. The Black Flag System Reference Document is kind of the core engine behind Tales of the Valiant.
And there is now available on GitHub, a Black Flag SRD that includes all of the information, including like monsters and spells and spellcasting in Markdown formats, which makes it very easy to read and to drop into your notes, convert to other formats. You can turn it into an e-book. You can do all kinds of stuff with it. So works really well for mobile devices.
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