The Lazy GM's Reference Document
One of the wonderful things you fine patrons of Sly Flourish facilitate is for me to spend time and energy on projects that help the whole RPG community without worrying about whether it's going to pull in money or not.
This past week I've been working on the Lazy GM's Resource Document. This single HTML page includes material from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, the Lazy DM's Workbook, and the Lazy DM's Companion. Once ready, I intend to release it under a Creative Commons Attribution license so anyone can use the material in this document for any purpose, even commercially, only requiring that they attribute the work to me and SlyFlourish.com.
Download the Lazy GM's Resource Document here.
I want to release this document because I feel like it can help the entire 5e and fantasy RPG hobby. I want publishers to benefit from the ideas in this document – ideas used by thousands of GMs to improve their own games over the years. I want to give these ideas and tools to GMs, designers, developers, producers, and publishers in the RPG community to use as they wish. I want these ideas to live beyond me.
This document only includes about 30% of the three Lazy DM books. The rest I feel is unique to the Lazy DM ethos and doesn't benefit publishers to have in the open. Most of the text of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master isn't released in this document, for example. Instead, I'm focusing on ideas, tools, and resources shoring up what isn't yet released for 5th edition.
I hope you'll look at the document and give me your feedback. Do you like what's in here? Does anything surprise you? Does it make you mad to see so much material released for free? Is there any material you think is missing given my goal for the document?
I'm really excited to release this material and I hope you're as excited as I am.
Comments (18)
I'd love to see Lazy Solo 5e added if you think that would make sense. I've been working on a generator that makes it even easier to run and I think it's a great way to get people playing more!
Good idea. Let me give it a look and see if it needs any tweaks before it gets added.
What happened to the EZ 5E section?
An eagle eye you have! I took it out this morning because I wanted to go back and restructure the whole thing. You can see my current version of it in PDF here. Once it's "done" I'll move it back to the reference document. https://slyflourish_content.s3.amazonaws.com/lightning_5e.pdf I'm also on a good path to get the reference document edited and under the CC! All signs are good!
Thanks for making the HTML extremely simple and basic. Makes parsing a breeze! This is easily repurposed for all kinds of digital uses.
I'm using this content to practice layout design. What a great thing to release. Thanks Mike!
Thank you for being a Creative Commons. I can also put together a Japanese translation and publish it here. I wish to lower the threshold for game mastery with Lasy DM Style, and I am personally appealing for it on Twitter and my blog...
Mike, this really is fantastic! is it intended to be an offline resource too? I couldn't see a down link for the article.
What a wonderful gift to the community! Thank you.
You are very generous Mike.
Geektastic! Thank you!
You're making my life so much easier! Thanks, so much!
I don’t play D&D, I play another non-d20 game, but still I learned a lot from you. I am very happy that I can help so more people can benefit even if they don’t have the money for the books. Greetings from Germany
This is pretty great! I can't wait to load it into gmsnotebook.com
Mad to see material released for free? No way.
Seconded. No concerns here.
Awesome!
So cool, Mike!