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Sly Flourish: Helping Dungeon Masters run great D&D games.

Weekly articles with tips, tricks, tools, and advice for the ffth edition of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) written by the author of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master.

  • By Michael E. Shea
  • Roughly one post per week
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Month starting Posts
Jul 2022 6
Aug 2022 5
Sep 2022 4
Oct 2022 5
Nov 2022 4
Dec 2022 3
Jan 2023 6
Feb 2023 3
Mar 2023 4
Apr 2023 4
May 2023 5
Jun 2023 4
Jul 2023 5
Aug 2023 4
Sep 2023 4
Oct 2023 5
Nov 2023 4
Dec 2023 4
Jan 2024 5
Feb 2024 4
Mar 2024 5
Apr 2024 5
May 2024 4
Jun 2024 4
Jul 2024 5
Aug 2024 4
Sep 2024 5
Oct 2024 4
Nov 2024 4
Dec 2024 3

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Dreadful Blessings – A Mechanic to Protect 5e Boss Monsters
Bosses need help. Bosses often face the full wrath of the characters, just for being a boss. This focus often leads to anticlimactic fights in which the boss is ineffective at fulfilling the role it …
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2024 RPG Gift Guide
Tis the season to give the gamers in your life something special. Below are a handful of my favorite tabletop roleplaying game products. Instead of a "best of 2024", these items are products I find …
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Choosing Monsters for your 5e Game
My simplified encounter building guidelines for 5e games breaks down into two steps: Select the number and type of monsters that make sense for the situation. Determine if this encounter might be inadvertently deadly by …
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