The Lazy Dungeon Master

The Lazy Dungeon Master
Author: Michael Shea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2019-06-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781073741113

You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time, less energy, and have a better game as a result?It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.Written in the style of Sly Flourish's Dungeon Master Tips and Running Epic Tier D&D Games, The Lazy Dungeon Master shows a new approach to game preparation, one that takes less time and gives your game the freedom to grow at the table. This book will help dungeon master prepare awesome games for any version of D&D.Based on the real-world experiences of hundreds of dungeon masters and dozens of professional game designers, the Lazy Dungeon Master includes interviews with veteran D&D DMs and a complete toolkit to help you improvise an entire game.Whether you play 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Pathfinder, or the D&D Next playtest; The Lazy Dungeon Master has tips, techniques, and advice to make preparation easier and help you run a flexible and entertaining game.

The Lazy DM's Workbook

The Lazy DM's Workbook
Author: Michael Shea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781731107503

The Lazy DM's Workbook contains a wide range of tools, maps, and reference sheets to help you run your fifth edition fantasy roleplaying game--and is designed to be useful right at the table. This book contains numerous fifth edition rules references, guides, and random generators to help fire up your imagination as you prepare and run your games. The workbook also contains ten lazy lairs: full-color maps and quick descriptions of locations common to most fantasy roleplaying games. When the characters take a game session in a direction you didn't expect, you can use any of these lairs with minimal prep time, running it straight out of the book. The Lazy DM's Workbook is an indispensable reference, designed to be kept at your side as tales of high adventure unfold at your gaming table.

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 1

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 1
Author: Supana Onikage
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-08-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718324006

"Come on, kill all those bandits for me already!" "No thanks. I don't wanna do any work." My name is Keima Masuda, and my hobby is spending each day doing exactly nothing... but one fateful night, I was summoned to another world where I met a blonde young girl who I named Rokuko. It seemed that fortune had favored me and I would soon be living a wonderful life free of work. But even though I'm a guy who loves sleeping more than eating, Rokuko demanded that I help her. "Save my dungeon! By the way, since you're the Dungeon Master, you'll die too if the Dungeon Core is destroyed." The dungeon only had one room, and it was already surrounded by bandits. Seriously? It's a checkmate already. I've gotta break out of this impossible situation so I can stop working and just sleep!

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 6

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 6
Author: Supana Onikage
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718324103

I'm still trying to manage my dungeon with the goal of not doing any work, but for some reason, I started a new religion and became the Pope of the Beddhist Church! May we all rest well, oyasuminasai (amen)... Wait, that sounds lame? I thought napping as a form of prayer would let me sleep more often, but I'm busy dealing with all this church business, and now there's a succubus infiltrating us... Not only that, but a "Beddhist Nun" has shown up even though none should exist? And she knows Niku somehow...?! This is the sixth volume of my own kind of dungeon story! No matter who you are, I'm not letting you have my dakimakura!

Game Wizards

Game Wizards
Author: Jon Peterson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0262542951

The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies. Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR's reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax's losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D. With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 9

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 9
Author: Supana Onikage
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718324162

Even dragons fall in love?! My name’s Keima Masuda, and despite the fact I’m aiming for an easygoing life I’m a Dungeon Master, a town chief, and a pope. Goren Town’s busy with a Beddhist wedding ceremony, and now a dragon’s attacking? I feel like this is gonna be one crazy foe... “My bad, Keima! Seems like my dumb daughter’s giving you trouble!” It was my neighbor (dungeon)’s daughter, Igni (300 years old). That’s fine, but now there’s a bunch of adventurers coming to town to slay the dragon?! Does that mean I’m not gonna get any rest until the dragon’s gone? This is Volume 9 of my own kind of dungeon story! Time to fight the dragon with a Hero!

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 14

Lazy Dungeon Master: Volume 14
Author: Supana Onikage
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-05-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 171832426X

I'm Keima Masuda the Dungeon Master, still chasing my dream to live a life without work. I finally get home from my trip to the Demon Realm (where I spent basically the whole time as a slave), but now Aidy the Demon Realm's princess is visiting the empire. I knew I'd be forced to give her a tour, but... "Can you do nothing about how dreadfully boring it is here, town chief?" The peaceful empire is simply too boring for Aidy! I have to go hunt down someone for Aidy the battle junky to slay in battle?! This is Volume 14 of my own kind of dungeon story! Let's fix this before I get slain myself!

Strongholds & Followers

Strongholds & Followers
Author: Matthew Colville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-06
Genre: Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN: 9780578409627

"Stronghold & Followers explains both the practicality of owning a keep (how much it costs to build, the costs to maintain it, what sort of impact it would have on local politics) and gives a variety of benefits for those players who choose to build or take over one." -- Comicbook.com website: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/12/14/stronghold-and-followers-dungeons-and-dragons/ (viewed July 16, 2019)