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The Red Portal Part 1 – Dragon Empire Prep Session 12
21 Feb 2025
Mike prepares the next session of his Tales of the Valiant Dragon Empire campaign. Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Podcast Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books Midgard Worldbook Tales of the Valiant Obsidian for TTRPGs
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Hey friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from Sly Flourish, here with another episode of Sly Flourish's Lazy GM Prep. In this weekly show, I go through steps from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for my Sunday roleplaying game. In this case, we are running a Tales of the Valiant campaign set in the Midgard, the world of Midgard, called Scourge of the Dragon Empire.
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i missed last week's session i was actually away at winter fantasy a big fifth edition d d convention that exists in fort wayne indiana it's the 49th year that winter fantasy has been going around a couple hundred people there you know almost got we had some snow it's always a risky winter fantasy is always a risky proposition because of weather and illness and things like that i have about a 50 50 shot of making it when i when i plan to go it's kind of a hard convention to get to
But it's a really fun convention, lots of awesome people, lots of opportunity to drive things out. And I spent a fair bit of time playing a bunch of new D&D 2024 characters and watching GMs run D&D 2024 games. That was really eye-opening. In a later episode of the Lazy RPG Talk Show, I will be digging into some of my insights in that.
and that was a lot of fun but now i am back and we are back to running the game my home games and last night i just ran a dnd 2014 game set in the vault of the drow and on my wednesday game we are running city of arches using a hybrid of dnd 2024 dnd 2014 and level up advanced 5e all in one game and the big question is how does that work and the answer is just fine it hasn't been a problem at all
But today, we're going to talk about my Tales of the Valiant game. So in our last session, let's see, we'll drop over to Obsidian here. In the last session of the game, the characters are in the city of Kukatarma. Kukatarma is a ruined city where the Nuria Natal, Natalian folk, had been battling against the Dragon Empire hundreds of years ago.
The Dragon Empire ended up winning, but the people of Kukatarma delved into powerful and yet dangerous and dark magic in order to try to repel the dragons. They were unsuccessful in this. But many of their experiments, many of their attempts at dark magic still exist beneath the ruins of Kukatarma. Our heroes are resistance, almost kind of like, are they resistance fighters?
Are they thieves and scoundrels? They're still trying to figure all of that out. But they all definitely hate the Dragon Empire and the sort of the brutal tyranny of the Dragon Empire. They wish to thwart it in many ways. They had worked for a while to set up sort of a money train that they could where they could harvest money from it.
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