The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
The Trouble with Crafting – Lazy RPG Talk Show
Mon, 14 Oct 2024
D&D and RPG news and commentary by Mike Shea of https://slyflourish.com Contents 00:00 Show Start 02:17 D&D & RPG News: Call of Cthulhu Humbled Bundle 04:40 Sly Flourish News: City of Arches Key of Worlds Scenarios for Hero-Tier Subscribers 12:28 Product Spotlight: Dread Thingonomicon Markdown for Obsidian 16:19 Sly Flourish News: Lazy GM Reference Guides in Markdown for Obsidian 20:23 Sly Flourish News: Sly Flourish 2025 Calendar! 22:00 Commentary: The Trouble with Crafting Systems in 5e 36:37 DM Tip: Advanced Random Encounter Tricks 49:46 Patreon Question: Adding Subquests and Managing Levels with Campaign Arcs 54:04 Patreon Question: Keeping Combat Descriptions Flavorful 57:17 Patreon Question: Designing a Heroic Shadowdark-Style Game Links Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books: Call of Cthulhu Humbled Bundle Dread Thingonomicon Dread Laironomicon Lazy GM Resource Docs likewise have Obsidian versions Lazy GM's Resource Document Lazy GM's 5e Monster Builder Resource Document Crit-Tech's Lazy GM Documents on Github (including Obsidian Markdown versions) Sly Flourish 2025 calendar
Full Episode
Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to look at the Call of Cthulhu Humble Bundle. We're going to look at the City of Arches Key of Worlds Adventure Paths, a new reward for hero tier patrons. Dread Thingonomicon, which was on sale last week, has a really awesome set of markdown files that you can drop right into Obsidian. We're going to talk about that.
I'm also going to talk about the Lazy GM resource documents, likewise have Obsidian versions. We're going to show those off. We're going to dive into the tricky problem of item crafting and what's going on with item crafting and why everybody wants it and why it's really hard to implement well. We're going to talk about advanced random encounter tricks.
We're going to combine a bunch of different random encounter tricks that I've talked about before into one talk to dive into some of the great tricks that you can do with random encounters to make them really, really useful. And we're going to cover the first batch of questions from the October 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 cool tools, tips, tricks, ways to improve your fantasy RPGs, things that you can directly use, all different kinds of stuff.
They also get access to the awesome Lazy DM community over on Discord, and they help me put on shows like this. To the patrons of Sly Flourish, thank you so much for your support.
To give you an idea of the example of that support, my wife and I, because we have things like Patreon that are able to help us with our funding, we were able to give out about $13,000 worth of material to school programs, after school programs last year. Unfortunately, all of our sponsorships are filled at this point. Hopefully, we'll be able to do it again next year.
But we definitely like to give back to the community overall, in particular to those who are running programs for kids after school, whether they are at libraries or whether they are other community programs or schools, we like to give back.
We were able to give both cash and products to these groups for a total of about 12, I think it's about 12 to $13,000 that we were able to give because of the outstanding support that we get from patrons. So patrons, thank you so much for your support. And we are very happy to be able to take some of that support and give it back to communities that are running role playing games for kids.
kids all over the world. Boy, Humble Bundles, man. So we talked, I don't even remember what it was, but one point that I'd like to make for the fine, distinguished, astute RPG customer, the best way to get great value in tabletop role-playing games is bundles of holding and Humble Bundles.
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