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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 1

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

Most recent posts

Two Free and Fantastic Resources for Online TTRPG Play
Here are two free resources to help you run your games online. Owlbear Rodeo Level Up A5e's Monster Tokens Owlbear Rodeo Owlbear Rodeo is my favorite virtual tabletop. It's lightweight, fast, easy to use, reasonably …
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The Heroic Spark
Here's an easy house rule to streamline the integration of a new character into an existing group. When the new character shows up, state: "Looking into their eyes, you see their heroic spark – noting …
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Running Adventures – Mashups and the Undefined
Over the past couple of months I've written articles defining adventure types – how we prep them, how we run them, what pitfalls we might run into, and how to mitigate those pitfalls. These articles …
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