Session Prep and Encounter Building in the D&D 2024 DMG – Lazy RPG Talk Show

2322.006 - 2343.508 Mike Shea

But a quick description of the lazy encounter benchmark is, and some of you may be bored because you've heard me talk about it forever. The lazy encounter benchmark comes down for two steps. Step one is you design an encounter based on the fiction of the game first. You don't sit there with a budget and decide exactly what kind of monsters you want to have for what sort of difficulty.