2024 D&D Dungeon Master's Guide Thoughts - Lazy RPG Talk Show

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Sly Flourish – The Lazy Dungeon Master

Sly Flourish – The Lazy Dungeon Master

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@capressley
@capressley 19 сағат бұрын
Prepping an adventure? Open up the Mothership Wardens Guide. It's amazing! It provides just good solid advice for laying out ideas and planning. $20.00 for the pdf.
@stewi009
@stewi009 20 сағат бұрын
When I was trying to wrap my head around random encounters in Shadowdark I found it very helpful to just roll a bunch of random encounters and tell myself a little story about what the results meant. Imagine my own little group of PCs encountering this situation and how they might deal with it. In effect, practicing the art of random encounters outside of an actual game. Of course it's never the same in a game, but at least you've got some foundation from which to react to whatever your real players do. If you have the time and inclination, playing a solo game with an oracle can be a good way to see how it all fits together too.
@LumberLopper
@LumberLopper 15 сағат бұрын
I actually like proficiency dice because a lot of newer dnd players get the attack bonus and damage bonus mixed up. By using proficiency dice, the bonuses are the same. Alternatively I think it also makes sense to add proficiency bonus to damage in general because the better you are at wielding a weapon, the better you are going to be at hurting someone with it.
@nightlight-zero
@nightlight-zero 16 сағат бұрын
On the betraying NPC thing, it’s also way way more fun as a PC to interact with somebody you *know* is untrustworthy. It becomes a problem you can apply agency to resolve: Can you influence if they’ll betray you? Can you betray them first? Can you secure insurance?
@GendefectX
@GendefectX 20 сағат бұрын
No money can be made with theater of the mind. ;)
@darthknight1
@darthknight1 12 сағат бұрын
right, why would they promote something that doesn't sell minis?
@_girafff_6612
@_girafff_6612 19 сағат бұрын
I just had my first session of Draconis. I was a bit worried about D&D almost without combat but it went great and my players were more imaginative and roleplayed more than they usually do. I was thrilled 😍 and I am glad that the campaign will be available in English too ! I really recommend the book for people who want to explore a beautiful world. As always, thanks for a great video!
@KelticPhoenix
@KelticPhoenix 13 сағат бұрын
I gotta say that I’m an early supporter of the Wondrous Worlds Kickstarter because I supported the Spectacular Settlements book. I think it’s so, so much fun to roll up some stuff while I’m bored and have time on my hands. I also have Dangerous Destinations, and their Castles & Crowns and use them slightly less. I’m really excited to see what WW has in store, though.
@ryanroyce
@ryanroyce 16 сағат бұрын
I'm hoping that the MM has random encounter tables in it as an appendix. A encounter table in the DMG gets outdated once any additional monster books get published, but if every monster book has its own table (preferably in a print-friendly format for my DM binder), then the resource grows over time.
@Frederic_S
@Frederic_S 8 сағат бұрын
49:42 is the best part. I love this 😄 thank you so much!
@kgeo2686
@kgeo2686 19 сағат бұрын
Amen to "Prep as little as you can"! Sly know what's up.
@BetterMonsters
@BetterMonsters 14 сағат бұрын
100% on not betraying the characters; it's such an easy twist to add in as a GM, but table trust and lessons learned carry over from game to game, and you will train players to kill or ignore everyone they meet. The only exception for me is if you bring in a betrayer fully prepared for the outcome where they are caught out; don't hang anything on the secret being kept and you won't be tempted to twist the world to keep the secret. Give the players all the info they need to work it out, and let them reverse whatever ambush he has planned so they get to have agency rather than being told a story.
@Jescribano1
@Jescribano1 20 сағат бұрын
Peaceful dnd sounds kinda boring. I would need to read an adventure to understand the kind of story we would be playing
@bifflechips-t5r
@bifflechips-t5r 19 сағат бұрын
You've mentioned it before, but I really appreciate you hammering home the not betraying the PCs thing. I had been gearing for a similar thing in my own game, but as time had gone on, even if I think it would be clever, like it might be in a movie or game or something, it just reminded me of the other times it's come up before in previous campaigns, and it's just never really hit how I imagined it would. Even by supplying a different helpful NPC from an obvious villain faction who doesn't necessarily share their ideals, I thought I'd be subverting it in some way, and-- at any rate, I don't think I'll go that route, even as we get near the end of the campaign, I can already tell it wouldn't really work ultimately. The nice thing is, I think I can easily pivot away from it and use helpful NPC guy as a damsel or something later on as we get into the finale instead.
@Ironfranko
@Ironfranko 2 сағат бұрын
I agree with you with the betraying NPCs, 100% My cure to it is the following: have the players find out way before the end of the adventure, but create some situation that forces them to still collaborate with the NPC even tho they strongly suspect they'll betray the party. Which makes the players feel smart more than feeling betrayed, and they can prepare for the finale, and counter betray the NPC. Not sure if it makes sense. This doesn't work for every adventure, of course, as Mike pointed out.
@CecilQuetzalcoatl
@CecilQuetzalcoatl 20 сағат бұрын
What did you write for dndbeyond? Actual content for the site or coding/programming? Are you still credited anywhere on the site?
@SummerOtaku
@SummerOtaku 8 сағат бұрын
It’s so funny you say we’ll probably forget about bastions but that’s what I see D&D KZbinrs seemingly excited about that the most.
@markkernow
@markkernow 20 сағат бұрын
So sad they took the good stuff away from the free D&D 2024 rules.The adventures and the lore glossary looked useful. 😢 I too thought they had done a good thing... shame to see them walk it back
@silentverdict
@silentverdict 20 сағат бұрын
My theory about how it could have been done by accident is I bet the Free stuff is all already in there as PHB or DMG and then they mark sections with a flag to make it part of the free rules. That would avoid duplicating the content in searches/character creation and lets you put everything in all at once and then easily mark which is free. A system like that would also make it much easier to accidentally flag entire systems as free when they shouldn't have been. Still sucks that it happened, but could definitely have been a screw up, and I think that's the most likely option considering how much content it as and how quickly they swapped it back out.
@MarkCsigs
@MarkCsigs 20 сағат бұрын
Roughly 40+ years ago when I was still a kid I made an NPC whose purpose was to get the party to trust them so he could betray them. But I named him Mal .. something or other. When they met him one of my players goes "I don't trust this guy, his name starts with "Mal". He's just going to betray us," and attacked. Ha! Never bothered with the betrayal trop since.
@Xplora213
@Xplora213 5 сағат бұрын
That’s pretty unhinged 😳😳😳😳😳
@AltogetherGuy
@AltogetherGuy 5 сағат бұрын
The best adventure book I’ve encountered is Trilemma Adventures. It comes with a setting and 48 beautifully illustrated adventures.
@mooxim
@mooxim 17 сағат бұрын
Sounds like a lot of the new DMG is stuff they had in the 4th Edition DMG. On The topic of betraying the party, DMG '14 featured this in a random table of 12 adventure climaxes, "An ally betrays the adventurers as they're about to achieve their goal. (Use this climax carefully, and don't overuse it.)" And this in a random table of 10 twists, "Completing the goal secretly helps the villain." I've had fun with it in the past but it does break the trust between you and your players. There's a bit of fun to be had in having your players squint suspiciously at your NPCs but I think I might prefer your blanket approach of saying never do it in future. You make a good case. There's so much more tension to be had in the devil you know. Adding your 10 alternatives to my notes.
@mAcChaosCh
@mAcChaosCh 9 сағат бұрын
I think the two prep quotes can co-exist. You want to prep as little as you CAN, but there is still a minimum amount you NEED to prep if you aren't a GMing genius that will make life a lot easier. An hour or two sounds good.
@alexwolfe3359
@alexwolfe3359 13 сағат бұрын
Also there are so many more fun secrets you can play with characters peeking behind the curtain. Like when Jarlaxle is disguised in Dragon Heist. It’s hard to spot the disguise as written sure but it’s honestly more fun to tip your hand a little and have players be like heyyyyy wait a minute that guy is sus
@cedricklemay8785
@cedricklemay8785 19 сағат бұрын
at 32:00, like a week or days before Ginny Di released her video about reading the DM guide, i started reading the 2014 one. The amount of stuff i didn't knew was in there, holy crap! Even some stuff i saw you post i read there and i remember thinking it's a shame WotC never released all those thing like people do. Well damn ... they do ... But sometimes, it is better presented, or structured, by other people. Also didn't knew there was two subclass (even if it's evil) in there, and it's a shame they never released it in another book. Even if 2024 is out, i still want to finish reading the 2014 one to see if i prefer something in 2014 better.
@sirmclovin9184
@sirmclovin9184 19 сағат бұрын
Also check out proficiency dice.
@cedricklemay8785
@cedricklemay8785 19 сағат бұрын
@@sirmclovin9184 Yeah i'm still at chapter 5, but can't wait to get to chapter 9. I think for now i will skip over treasures, and check them after all that. Some table i have skipped too because i want to read for now and not build. But proficiency dice i dont think i heard of that and now you made me want to read faster haha
@Xplora213
@Xplora213 5 сағат бұрын
It’s truly embarrassing how few people seem to actually read core rule books. I appreciate that not everyone will understand what the text means but it’s hard to appreciate how things are supposed to work when you don’t know what they told you to do.
@Nick-dc6ix
@Nick-dc6ix 14 сағат бұрын
Regarding random monster tables, I essentially never use them, never think about using them, never reach for them, never want them I'm not everyone, plenty of folks might like em, not passing judgment on that, but, for my part, skipping those tables is what I'd do too
@josephrion3514
@josephrion3514 6 сағат бұрын
I want this encounter building discussion video, reminding self to look for it. I saw they removed the creating a monster or leveling up existing ones using HP armor damage and attack for only traits. That was rough I use that section for every campaign to scale monsters from published to higher level runs.
@josephrion3514
@josephrion3514 6 сағат бұрын
Please keep publishing an article a week. I read those with glee. Been doing it since dm David pointed me at you and especially since he has given up writing weekly two years ago and seemingly at all six months ago was his last post.
@HowtoRPG
@HowtoRPG 15 сағат бұрын
Thanks.
@AvengerYouT
@AvengerYouT 16 сағат бұрын
About the 24h free rules: Greyhawk wasn't there, and any mentions of the setting from the sample adventures were removed. The text were not the same as the DMG. So it could've been a change of mind.
@joshaddinsall472
@joshaddinsall472 15 сағат бұрын
I really liked the new DMG, but I did miss a lot of the more comprehensive stuff they had in the 2014 guide. Imo return is still the goat for running a game and I have yet to find another DMG that has been as beneficial as that one. But I do hope new DMS get something out of this book before finding new sources that can be more useful for them I did a few practice prepping sessions for my game and I did enjoy it, but it's not nearly as intuitive as the lazy dungeon masters prep and I don't see myself using it going forward.
@ZaxPBG
@ZaxPBG 6 сағат бұрын
I think the basic free rules will go large again on release. They did the same thing for PHB.
@BetterMonsters
@BetterMonsters 15 сағат бұрын
My theory is that the Statistics by CR table in 2014 was playtested and finalized far before the MM, but a design shift happened after its release and the MM monsters got changed, so now they've moved the table to the MM to eliminate the possibility of the same thing happening again. If they've just chucked the table I'm gonna riot, though. DMs need to be able to form reasonable expectations for what CR means, and the only reason to get rid of the table is if you want to apply CR inconsistently without getting scolded for it.
@Xplora213
@Xplora213 5 сағат бұрын
That’s utterly absurd. Mathematics don’t change.
@b-you-tube
@b-you-tube 8 сағат бұрын
I'm aware I might be opening a can of worms here, but: is there a reason why the math in your encounter tables changed between Lazy DM's Workbook and Forge of Foes? Former suggests up to CR 23 for 4 * level 20 characters, latter suggests up to CR 29. I only just noticed this, when you were talking about encounter building math just after 15:00
@SlyFlourish
@SlyFlourish 3 сағат бұрын
The Lazy Encounter Benchmark evolved after the Workbook was published.
@Robstopper78
@Robstopper78 20 сағат бұрын
Thanks, I'll be saying "chapped my ass" for the rest of the week
@frontendchaos
@frontendchaos 20 сағат бұрын
With your tweak to Shadowdark spells, couldn't you get the same effect just by changing the casting check to after you cast a spell? So it's really a "roll to keep" rather than roll to cast? I suggested this in a forum somewhere and got shut down, but I just listened to an actual play this week where the wizard never succeeded on a single spell. It was amusing to hear them joke about whether that guy was actually a wizard or just a peasant, but that level of unreliability wouldn't work at my table.
@samdouglas32
@samdouglas32 6 сағат бұрын
"If something doesn't work at your table, change it or throw it out and don't look back." pg. 102 Roll to keep makes magic more predictable than what Mike proposed -- I _know_ I have a fireball in me, vs. I have a DC14 that I can fireball them this turn. Less bookkeeping though. I've considered alternatives where failing a spell check doesn't make you forget the spell, but you take damage (i.e. exhaustion). I haven't fully considered the intricacies but I like the fantasy of that more than vancian
@sumdude4281
@sumdude4281 19 сағат бұрын
It's taken me a long time to learnt he lesson of the betraying NPC. Don't do it. Once it's done the players than don't trust anyone thereafter and its a massive headache as a DM.
@danddjacko
@danddjacko 20 сағат бұрын
The best book ever for teaching D&D was the book 'what is dungeons and dragons' by john butterfield
@lonic123
@lonic123 20 сағат бұрын
Thanks
@gamermilk6399
@gamermilk6399 12 сағат бұрын
PCs had to loot and burn the orphanage, the hospital, and the soup kitchen so they wouldn't betray us, later. GM was just waiting to backstab us. 😅
@Hacker-at-Large
@Hacker-at-Large 20 сағат бұрын
Betraying NPCs are great if you telegraph it, but appeal to their greed. Let them distrust, but need the NPC.
@b-you-tube
@b-you-tube 6 сағат бұрын
Wichita hard cover adventure is he talking about, where the players will miss "5 levels" worth of content if they find out the npc has betrayed them?
@SlyFlourish
@SlyFlourish 3 сағат бұрын
Vecna Eve of Ruin
@Femonnemo
@Femonnemo 20 сағат бұрын
Stop giving advice to Wizard´s do things that will supersede your books =]
@Knopey
@Knopey 4 сағат бұрын
Why? They won't do it anyway. 😅 That betraying quest giver, for example, Mike has been calling out since I think before Spelljammer. I think it's safe to offer them advice. 😂
@akashambatwamiller6924
@akashambatwamiller6924 17 сағат бұрын
I have not seen the final versionof Bastions but I amlooking for ward to it. That said it is not for every one nor every table. Regardless, it belonged in the PHB not the DMG.
@jabeck03
@jabeck03 14 сағат бұрын
Enough plugging other products!!! Geez
@nicholasmiller1731
@nicholasmiller1731 18 сағат бұрын
GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY!
@brianwilson259
@brianwilson259 19 сағат бұрын
I like your content Mike but please for the love of god pull the mic back a little bit. If i have to hear you swallow in my ear one more time im gonna loose my mind!!! Lol
@prestonluhman8168
@prestonluhman8168 21 сағат бұрын
Maybe have a spoiler warning next time when talking about stuff from published adventures, i.e. NPC betrayal. You listed a campaign I'll be playing in soon.
@seanpinkey2188
@seanpinkey2188 20 сағат бұрын
Sorry it was completely and totally ruined for you. There's no way you can put that behind you and separate it from your player knowledge opposed to your character's. Ruined forever. I'm sorry. Also what are you talking about?
@trevorsharp460
@trevorsharp460 20 сағат бұрын
@@seanpinkey2188 it's a pretty measured response my guy, the sort of thing Mike has cared about in the past. No one's whined about anything, just vibes. I've fallen out of love of the "betrayal npc" hook too, but once you know Jim is John's evil twin brother it does color your interactions with him. Or at least add unnecessary mental overhead.
@seanpinkey2188
@seanpinkey2188 19 сағат бұрын
​@@trevorsharp460 Ahh I understand now. There's a betrayal in a campaign from an NPC. Named ______. Oops, you heard it, read it, or otherwise now know... (a video perhaps) **Spoilers** Yes it would be nice to have a disclaimer. Yeah spoiler alerts my dudes but also, nothing is defined in D&D, every story different, and you WILL find spoilers when watching reviews on yet-released products and those that are years old. I guess, do you stop playing D&D because of this because your sense of honor, emersion, or overpowered by the META and the game is ruined? Or can you continue to play and have fun? I don't use the NPC betrayal hooks, (Stale and overused in everything), I go for inner player party betrayals. But if someone spoils somethings for me as a player, or the DM makes a mistake, whoops I guess we are human and I put it behind my character's mind. Even if I know, and my character doesn't, I can have fun with that still. Thanks for explaining it to me.
@tevkaber4604
@tevkaber4604 17 сағат бұрын
Dude, I’m right in the middle of Baldur’s Gate III - did you have to give spoilers? You held back from spoiling Spelljammer a couple sentences earlier!
@SlyFlourish
@SlyFlourish 16 сағат бұрын
I never mentioned anything from bG3
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