The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Four Histories of D&D – Lazy RPG Talk Show
Mon, 16 Sep 2024
D&D and RPG news and commentary by Mike Shea of https://slyflourish.com Contents 00:00:00 Show Start 00:01:16 Kickstarter Spotlight: Worldographer 2025 by Inkwell Ideas 00:03:36 Kickstarter Spotlight: Shadow City Mysteries 00:04:53 Product Spotlight: Level Up Advanced 5e on Bundle of Holding 00:10:46 D&D & RPG News: MCDM's License for Draw Steel 00:17:33 Product Spotlight: Shadowdark Guide to Monster Statistics by Matt Dietrich 00:22:14 Commentary: Four Sources of D&D History 00:44:16 DM Tip: Instant Monsters for 5e 00:59:02 Patreon Question: Handling Back Seat Driving Veteran Players 01:03:17 Patreon Question: Running the City of Arches with Shadowdark 01:05:40 Patreon Question: Managing Secrets with Multiple Paths Ahead 01:08:09 Patreon Question: Building Single-Session Episodic Adventures Links Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books: Worldographer Kickstarter Shadow City Mysteries Crowdfunding campaign Level Up A5e Bundles of Holding – Core Level Up A5e Bundles of Holding – Adventures Draw Steel creators license Shadowdark Quick Monster Stats by Matt Dietrich D&D 50 Year Panel D&D 50 Celebration Games When We Were Wizards The Making of Original D&D: 1970 - 1977
Full Episode
Today on the Lazy RPG Talk Show, we're going to look at the Worldographer Kickstarter, the Shadow City Mysteries crowdfunding campaign, the huge level up advanced 5e bundle of holding going on. We're going to look at the Draw Steel Creators License by MCDM, the Shadow Dark Quick Monster Stats by Matt Dietrich.
And today we're going to dive deep into the history of D&D with a whole bunch of resources that have only come out in the past few months, some of which I've already talked about on the talk show, but how all of this comes together to give us a really different view of what D&D is like and where it came from. And today we're going to talk about instant monsters.
How can you build a monster almost instantly to drop into your 5e game? and we're going to cover more questions from the september 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 tips
tricks, tools, source books, adventures, and other things to help you run your tabletop role-playing games. They get access to the awesome Lazy DM community over on Discord, and they also help me put on shows like this to the patrons of Sly Flourish. Thank you so much for your outstanding support.
my friend joe over at inkwell ideas has a new crowd funding campaign for his top product known as the worldographer worldographer has been around for god i don't know 15 years 10 or 15 years he'd have to tell me it is a local client-based application to help you build out your fantasy world it lets you fill in hex maps
And it used to be a series of separate tools, Worldographer, Cityographer, and Dungeonographer, which are now all together in one big package. And he has a new version of this coming out called Worldographer 2025. Even though it's called 2025, it's actually coming out in 2024, sort of like the new car model. And you can see all of the different kinds of things that this tool can do.
One of the things I really love is it installs to your computer. Unlike a web app, the company goes out of business, or if you're just in a bad connection, you can keep using it. You hear me talk about that all the time. If you cannot download it and stick it on a USB drive, you don't really own it. So you get to really own this application.
Lots of different generators to build worlds, to build cities, to build dungeons. All of it inside this application. There's a whole bunch.
He runs both a Patreon, which you should check out, but also has a bunch of different tools available on DriveThruRPG, different icon packs and different artwork packs that you can add into it to build it out, whether you're running science fiction adventures or apocalyptic adventures or, of course, fantasy adventures or fantasy campaigns. You can build that out. Here's one that's like a star map.
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