The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
D&D 2025 Monster Manual First Look – Lazy RPG Talk Show
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
D&D and RPG news and commentary by Mike Shea of https://slyflourish.com Contents 00:00 Show Start 00:02:11 Product Spotlight: Horizon Magazine 00:07:31 D&D & RPG News: Alphastream on 2025 D&D Monster Manual Math 00:09:31 Commentary: D&D at Madison Square Garden 00:13:28 D&D & RPG News: Mike Mearls and Ray Winninger on the Past and Future of D&D 5e 00:15:42 Product Spotlight: 2025 Monster Manual Initial Thoughts 00:27:56 Product Spotlight: D&D 2025 Monster Manual Lich 00:32:28 DM Tip: Avoid Getting Caught in the Zeitgeist 00:44:13 Patreon Spotlight: Talk Show and Patreon Q&A Databases 00:47:13 Patreon Question: What D&D Classes and Features Do I Ban? 00:52:19 Patreon Question: Making Flat Paper Character Minis 00:54:34 Patreon Question: Dealing with Agency-Stealing Effects like Stun 01:00:32 Patreon Question: Basic Rules or 5.1 SRD for New Players Links Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books: Horizon Magazine Alphastream on 2025 D&D Monster Manual Math Ray Winninger and Mike Mearls on Past and Future of D&D 5e Printable Heroes
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Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to look at Horizon Issue 2. I'm going to talk about Teos Abadie Alpha Stream's excellent video on the Monster Manual math for the D&D 2025 Monster Manual. D&D, does your game look like the D&D game that took place at Madison Square Gardens? We're going to have a little bit of a conversation about that.
The fantastic thread about the early days of the fifth edition of D&D and the current version of fifth edition D&D with a discussion, a pretty heated discussion between two different leads for the D&D team took place over on EN World. The thread is now closed, but I thought it was worth talking about. It was a fascinating thread, probably the most interesting thread I've seen on EN World.
We're going to have a quick glance at the 2025 Monster Manual. I'm going to do a bigger review in a couple of weeks, but we're going to do just a quick little glance, and I'm going to give you some initial thoughts. Today's big DM topic is avoiding the zeitgeist, how not to get caught up in the giant turmoil of the RPG industry. This is really self-therapy is what you're going to see.
How do we not get caught up in the big zeitgeist of what's going on and remember that we are just there at a table playing a game with our friends? And we're going to have more questions from the Sly Flourish 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 was brought to you by, is brought to you by the patrons of Sly Flourish. Patrons get access to all kinds of tips, tricks, tools, databases, and...
scenarios and adventures and campaign books and all kinds of awesome stuff that you get for being a patroness life flourish it's a very reasonable price it directly supports me in the work that i do so if you like the work that i do and you want to give back that is a fantastic way to give back and you get access to the awesome lazy dm community that we have over on discord we have awesome conversations if you wanted for example yesterday when i received that yesterday was saturday my day off but i got the 2025 monster manual
And myself and patrons of Sly Flourish got to go through. I went on stage. I took a bunch of screenshots and we talked all about it. I think we probably spent like two hours talking about the 2025 Monster Manual. That sort of thing is the sort of thing that you get over in the Lazy DMs community that is available to patrons of Sly Flourish. Horizon Magazine.
So Horizon Magazine is published by Wild Mage Press. Hannah Rose is the editor-in-chief. Hannah Rose was the editor. She was the lead editor for Arcadia, which was the Dragon Style magazine that was being produced by MCDM a while back. And she has since left MCDM and now has a new publishing imprint, Wild Mage Press. And they are putting out a quarterly magazine called Horizons.
And this is Horizons issue two. And it's absolutely fantastic. You can get Horizons Magazine by subscribing to Horizons Magazine through their website and through Patreon. And that gives you access to Horizons Magazine now and quarterly access. And they release other things intermittently during the quarter. But holy cow, it is a really good-looking magazine. The layout is fantastic.
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