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That spec on the camera is driving me nutts

for everyone saying this isn't lazy. It is. Totally. Only a truly lazy person would put so much work into NOT having to have a lot of work afterwards

"Oh I just dropped one... Eh, I'll grab another one from here" Truly a guide for the Lazy Dungeon Master.

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates

the idea of using a dice roll to determine the personality of an NPC is pure genius.

God that speck on the lens is driving me crazy xD

Lazy DM is like: - You are in a lets say castle... I don't know ... Old castle. And in the first room there are some things... I don't know... spidery shits. - But! - Shut up and throw your dice...

As Griff once said: "It takes a lot of effort to be this lazy"

I like the idea of generating characters on the spot.

More like "Tools of a Good Dungeon Master".

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing. I love those face cards. Just bought some for ROTRL.

My tools: 1) Enemies cards: These are around 9 cm wide and 18 cm high. They are displayed vertically so i can hang more of these in my DM screen. They show the stats, traits/feats and weapons / armors. Plus, i can write on the back wether they have or not other loot beside its equipment. 2) Spell cards: Cards with simplified description of a spell effect, with spell components, duration, range, etc. Easy for player to track down the spell they have. 3) Magic item cards: I give away lots of magic items, not very powerful ones, but sometimes they come in handy. Because of the way these items works, you can have many of these, but only have a few ones active at the same time

This is a much more valuable video than most people will ever realize.

this gave me inspiration to dm again

This was worth it for the story cubes alone! I'd never heard of those before, probably because I must live under a rock. Thank you!

Awesome tips!!! I just bought the "Pathfinder Beginners Box" and this video has basically told me what I'm missing to get started once I finish learning the rules.

The dot steals the show attention!

I got your kindle a couple of years ago and I have to say for any new or even for experienced DMs such as myself (since 78!) that your advice and information is TRULY priceless! Thanks for the great wit & wisdom Mike!

This is EXTREMELY helpful to me. I tend to be juggling alot, and I'm still getting over that first time DM overwhelming feeling. I'll have to take up a lot of these tips, especially the note cards, amazing Idea thank you. Both I, and my players thank you.

Great video, long time DND player, going to be DMing my first game and really was looking to impress. These tools will certainly help me to be prepared. Thank you, will definitely check out your book.

You've got some great tips here. I love anything that makes my life easier as the DM. Liked, subbed, and sharing over on my Nerdarchy FB fanpage tomorrow 11-19 at 12 pm eastern time. We like to high light different RPG KZfaqrs. -Nerdarchist Dave

Loved your book. I really took the advice in it to heart and it has made me a much better DM. I've also picked up Story Cubes and they are awesome. My wife loves them as well.

Thanks for your video. My group and I were navegating the hole internet looking for new homemade "widgets" and tricks for playing D&D. After seen tons of D&D sponsored videos, you appeared and show us at least two ideas we are going to use. Thanks a lot!

This is truly a great guide....thank you for putting this together and sharing!

I love the idea of tactile / high-quality, memorable handouts! Very nice!

I recently got your book and it is so helpful for a new DM. Thank you very much!

Great ideas. Props for the props. I love Rory's Story Cubes. Nothing about this is lazy. Thanks for making DMing smart and fun.

The story cube idea is absolutely genius! Love it

another good idea i saw that matt mercer does is use color coded rings to put around miniatures to signify conditions

GREAT VIDEO! I'm definately going to use some of your tips!

Wow! 7 years old. Still relevant, tho. I do much of the same: erasable pens, whiteboard, covered map, washable kids markers, lots of 3×5 cards...

What a great video! Some great tips in here. I've used a similar technique like the face cards. Since I play Magic the gathering, i've separated out dozens of different humanoid cards for reference for my players. Absolutely a powerful tool. Especially for helping us to remember important NPCS. Well done!

I like the story cubes idea! It's great!

Posted 2013, still useful and relevant. Thanks Sly!

I gotta say, the suggestion of the face cards and the story cubes were exactly what I was looking for, when I didn't even know I was looking for them.

Just starting to DM Pathfinder and this was super helpful! :)

The title says "lazy" but I actually find it rather helpful. If that makes me lazy, well, so be it. Great tips and ideas. Thank you.

I just read your book and am now realising that i watched your video even before that back in the day! :D

Great ideas! Thanks for making this! I'm totally using these ideas.

Good video. also, A1, Slavepits of the Undercity and X1 Isle of Dread are two of my favorite modules....I still play them today

I heart this video I actually have a 4' by 8' white board in my game room. I'll check out your book and the story cubes!

Cool, I liked this and bought your book as well.

You did a good job. I have your blog on my blogroll and I think I’ve left comments there.

You look like a really good DM, I'm going to have to use several of these ideas

Hey, great video! It really helped me with my DMing. If it is ok, I will try to tell here some other suggestion, which I use. If you are not sure if sticky notes on NPC cards will hold over multiple sessions, you can buy card sleeve (usually clean, MTG format) and you can use normal note, just put it into the sleeve with NPC. Also, you can use more than one name cards, you can have one for every race (names can be from stories or PHB) divided into male/female. Also some small things that I found usefull as DM: - Hourglass (when players have only some time to do something, just use hourglass and use them as another element. After time is done and they didnt do anything, you will continue with some your stuff) - Remote candles (there is nothing better than playing horror story in bright light of candles and then you suddenly tell players something mysterious and change light of candles from normal yellow to dark red or something) - Multiple erasable tablets (every player should have one, if they want tell you, DM, something in secret instead of papers) - Precreate standart enemies (as thugs, or guards ... their stats and so on) - If you have problems to improvise, precreate some cards with NPC (you can use something like this www.reddit.com/r/BehindTheTables/comments/3zr0h4/npc_appearance_personality_faith_and_flaws/) - Lucky coin (if your players do something clever but risky and you dont know, if you want to create some obstacles or something, just get some coin. Let player toss it. One side is always unlucky, so they will know and they will get feeling of randomness - this is important if they think that you are, as DM, plotting against them) - Riddles, puzzle, etc (precreate some. If you come to place where you want create an obstacle, it will come handy) and so on, and so on Hope it helps :)

This is extremely awesome. Is half the comments seriously about one unimportant dot and NOT about how amazing all this advice is?

Love the idea of story dice. Didn't know you could get anything like that. Ordered some from Amazon almost as soon as I saw you use yours!

You can cut out the initiative cards by using the player cards as initiative cards and simply cycling through them + adding an enemy card.

Very nice! Thank you Mike!

Great stuff! Especially loved the story cube dice! Just ordered mine up - using your Amazon link off your home page of course ;)

awesome! I guess this answers my question of if you will make some new videos. Thanks for this man.

Tip: Use a cribbage board to track various things like HPs, Spell duration, etc.

Thanks for sharing your tips...great stuff!

Great tips! Thank you!

Nice. Thanks very much. I'll be DMing again soon, so this is much appreciated.

Great tips, thank you.

I use a similar idea to your 3x5 cards for the initiative tracker. I have printed cards in sleeves with the characters names and a bit of info, and i order them in their initiative order and cycle through them placing the top card on the bottom and cycling till the encounter is over. I also have a card for the DM's creature turn. I also have all npc's act on the same base initiative for simplicity instead if trying to track 4 or 5 sets of creatures separate inits throughout an encounter.

great tips on creating NPC's (a topic with which I struggle). Thanks again

Awesome video!!!

Awesome tips!

Cool video. Some very good ideas.

Thanks for the video. Great ideas.

Lol... Gonte has a little bit of Aspergher's... if i'd have been drinking coffee while hearing that, there'd have been a mess. :P

In cons or demos, if I don't know the players before, I would draw an outline of the table on a piece of paper, write the player name on the outside of the outline in relation to where they are sitting from me, and the character name on the inside. This is key so I don't get confused about who's who (the 2 kinds of who's). I've got the Rory's Story Cubes but there are now the Gamemaster's Apprentice card-decks, two-sided 60-card decks split into many areas which print random dice-rolls, descriptive words, possible adventure hooks, and the contents of an NPC's pocket living OR dead. They come in different genres like fantasy, horror, steampunk, demon-hunter fantasy or science-fiction. These are idea-sparks but more tailored to gamers. They also have a rules-basis to play a GM-less game with them.

Good old "Isle of Dread", one of the first (if not THE first) module I've ever played.

I miss that A Module. The Slavers :D With the premade characters Ogre (Fighter human), Elwita (Dwarf Fighter), Eljayess (elf dual class if I recall?) Good stuff :)

Good vid Mike. Thanks.

I use the wonder file to hold all my books, pens, character sheets, etc it works pretty well

GREAT video!

EXCELENT VIDEO!!!

Huzzah! Very useful sir. thank you thank you

Excellent help. There is a phone app for the story cubes I just purchased it on google play, worth getting if you ask me.

Mike I Bought your book, Job Well done

Very cool Nice video Good information

Great stuff

Hey there, thanks very much this video was really helpful. I just have one question. My friends and I are about to start playing and we'd like the 5e starter set maps. Do you or anyone else know where we can get them or a place that sells all maps. Thanks

I love ebberon. I wish it was for fifth edition. Good vid.

Slyyyyyyyyy flourish, anyone else listening to drunks and dragons

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master. And you thought playing a character was consuming. This guy has to build a world to keep you entertained for a few hours every week.

there is some kind of dead fly flying on your screen lol

I am looking for the cards you showed, the face cards, and the only ones I found that applied (Urban Deck) was 1000 dollars.. I assume they are of high value.

Nice tips, thanks dude c:

Well done.

BTW, your ebooks are great!

make more videos, they're great

Nice tips! But when my players go off in a direction I'm not expecting, I just move what I want them to run into over to where they are going!

Thanks for making this video :) would love the book but its kindle only :(

the facecards are pretty cool

I encouraged my players to make things to flesh out the world, the better the work the more xp they got. some wrote history stories, one guy drew a beautiful map.

acrylic sheets? where do these come from, or something about them? i'm in Australia, so USA shops aren't really going to help,

So I think it's a bit of blue marker on your lens. It really shows how much work the KZfaq image stabilisation is doing when using a hand held camera

"Slyflourish" videos from the past. hopefully more to come.

I really like that folder, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, on Staples or Amazon.

What the hell is that dot? It is super distracting.

nice tips

You've got everything you need for solitaire rpg playing.

Hi, i'm about to start playing D&D with some friends, no one of us has experience in table RPGs, and i've been designated as the DM. The video is a great pool of ideas, do you have any other tips or suggestions to help a noob master?

Mike, I got your book, and enjoyed it, but I have a question. I didn't notice any advice on how you design encounters/dungeons. Do you craft those traditionally, or is there something you do to wing those as well?

Can anyone tell me which face card deck that is? Society, shattered star etc.