Mike (Sly Flourish) @ slyflourish @ttrpg.network

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Regardless of motivation, spending the money to translate the 5.1 SRD into four languages and then putting it out into the CC opens up a lot of expansion of 5e into other countries and people who never would otherwise play. And it does so regardless of what WOTC does in the future. It’s prudent that we don’t trust WOrC. With this out there, we don’t have to trust them.

I’ve been using the Tome of Beasts 1 2023 edition for a few sessions now and I love it.

I just played Shadowdark and my players and I found it refreshingly simple to play. I did a video about it here:

https://youtu.be/mkJCwfzQkfk

Hi there! I have a couple of articles that may help:

https://slyflourish.com/witchlight_experiences.html

https://slyflourish.com/dreadful_incursions.html

I’m putting a lot of hope in the extra 32 pages the sourcebook gets. I’m hoping for more text and tools to help me run my own Planescape adventures.

Hello!

I usually try to drop in one scene or situation along the way usually at the site of a notable landmark. You can roll randomly for the landmark and maybe two groups. Maybe they’re fighting. Maybe one group already beat the other group. Maybe they’re friendly. Just a situation to expose something about the world and it’s history and people.

You can also use it as an opportunity for campfire tales. Ask each player ahead of time to think about what their character thinks of what they’ve done so far and where they’re going. Have each player share their thoughts during a long rest along the journey.

Finally, if the characters are traveling anywhere with risk you can define some traveling roles like who is scouting, who is trailblazing, and who is provisioning. Have them roll checks on these jobs to give you some interesting ideas about what might happen along the journey.

I picked up ttrpg.blog which routes to dndblogs.com right now just to have a domain in case I want to totally break away from D&D.

Here are a couple of articles that may help:

https://slyflourish.com/getting_started_with_dnd.html

https://slyflourish.com/top_advice.html

Here are a couple of articles that may help:

https://slyflourish.com/getting_started_with_dnd.html

https://slyflourish.com/top_advice.html

Here are a couple of articles that may help:

https://slyflourish.com/getting_started_with_dnd.html

https://slyflourish.com/top_advice.html

Im on board. Hit points are one of my four dials of monster difficulty.

https://slyflourish.com/dials_of_monster_difficulty.html

Hi there! Glad you saw some of my other stuff!

Here are some articles to help with one on one games:

https://slyflourish.com/running_one-on-one_dnd_games.html

https://slyflourish.com/framework_for_one_on_one_dnd.html

https://slyflourish.com/balancing_combat_for_one_on_one.html

Hope that helps!

Take a look at the concept of “spiral campaign development” in which you focus on the characters and where they are right now and build out from there.

https://slyflourish.com/spiral_campaign_building.html

Take a look at my concept of the Lazy Encounter Benchmark. It’s an easier way of loosely benchmarking if a battle might be inadvertently deadly.

https://slyflourish.com/the_lazy_encounter_benchmark.html

I love running hordes of monsters. Here are some guidelines I offer: https://slyflourish.com/running_hordes.html

Great stuff! I'll experiment with it and see how I can get better results. I've already been using the turbo-16k so I can feed large blog articles back to it. I also need to find a way to limit the total tokens coming out to ensure the summaries don't get to long sometimes.

Thanks so much for the post!