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The Puzzle Box – Dragon Empire Prep Session 9
Fri, 17 Jan 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 role-playing game. In this case, I am running a Midgard campaign set in the Dragon Empire using the Tales of the Valiant rules.
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So I'll probably pull up Albert Rodeo at some point during the show. The characters in this one. Let's see. Let's jump over to Obsidian. And let's go to our campaign here and take a look at our Dragon Empire campaign and go to our session notes. I am using Obsidian for my prep these days. If you want to learn more about using Obsidian for your game prep, you can find a link down in the show notes.
so they started let's see i think i can't i think it was the session before is where they went to the front door of the pits of unending thirst that went to the top of the pit of unending thirst they fought a gray thirster which is sort of like a sort of a zombie and sort of a mummy that sucks all the moisture out of you and they got beat up quite bad and they're like well we're going to rest again so before they even made it into the dungeon they went back for a long rest and then they had an encounter on the way and they had an encounter and they came back i don't think they had an encounter when they came back
Then they got back to the pit and they started actually crawling through the pit of Unending Thirst. Let's pull up. Let's see if we can get Owlbear Rodeo up in the lower left. So I'm showing off my Owlbear Rodeo map.
It took me a little bit because apparently somehow in dorking around with the new Owlbear Rodeo, I lost my version of the map that I had actually used in my game, but I've got it back up and running. So the characters came up to the top. This is a multi-level dungeon, as you can see from that little left side, which is really kind of neat.
I like having multi-level dungeons with lots of connections. And those connections actually mattered pretty heavily when they were exploring it. So in the last game, they had made their way down that central pit. They opened up these crypts. They got attacked by some stuff. Then they made their way to the left. And we actually have a new on-call player who joined us last week.
And he was getting attacked by zombies in this hallway over here. Hey, look, my big mouse cursor shows up if I wiggle it enough. So he showed up in that upper hallway and was getting attacked by zombies. And it was my friend Joe who got ganged up on and in the middle of the battle. So he's getting beat up. And my other friend is like, man, why does Mike hate you? I thought he was your friend.
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