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Hello friends! We're in the last days for the Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster Kickstarter! You can find the project right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slyflourish/rise-of-the-lazy-game-master?ref=845wu9 Please check it out, support it if you dig it, and pass the link to your friends and on

Hello, my friend! We wanted you to be the first to know that the Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster Kickstarter is live! As a paying Patron of Sly Flourish, you get a 10% discount on the hardcover package for Rise and even better discounts when you order either of the two physical packages! Here’s your sec

It's been a while since I added anything new to Uncovered Secrets Volume 2. In case you're asking "what about volume 1?" Uncovered Secrets Volume 1 ended up becoming the Lazy DM's Companion. Any material that didn't make it into the Lazy DM's Companion ended up here in Volume 2. This week I'm adding

I started a new project consolidating and expanding a lot of the tools I've developed for 5e into one big project – the 5e Artisanal Database! Like all of your rewards, you can find the 5eADB on your Patreon rewards page. The 5eADB includes: Four 5e rulesets including the 5.1 SRD (D&D 2014), 5.2.1 S

Hello, friend! With Wizards of the Coast releasing a significant amount of D&D 2024 material into the Creative Commons through the 5.2 System Reference Document, I was able to add 318 new monsters to the Artisanal Monster Database from the D&D 2025 Monster Manual. You can find the Artisanal Monster

Hello, friend! Michelle and I thought it was time we had a nice post card we could hand out at conventions and maybe include with the books we sell on the Sly Flourish Bookstore so we commissioned Elizabeth from Patchwork Paladin to work on a design and came up with the Sly Flourish GM's Postcard! A

Hi, Friend! Once again, my wife Michelle and I are pleased to announce the re-opening of the Sly Flourish After-School TTRPG Grant Program. If you are affiliated with a school or library and have an active after-school D&D or TTRPG club, please see the website below for instructions and to apply. ht

For the past two years, you have helped me build the City of Arches piece by piece, from a short 12 page PDF back in February 2022 into the full high-fantasy city sourcebook I'm working on now! On August 6th 2024, I'll be launching the Kickstarter for the fully produced City of Arches including a fu

Because of your awesome support I'm always happy to give a lot of my work away in the hopes of making this entire hobby better for everyone. Along these lines, I've recently set up a script that builds a weekly Sly Flourish archive. You can download the archive at: https://www.slyflourish.com/sf_arc

As a Patron of Sly Flourish, I want to offer you the complete Sly Flourish newsfeed available in HTML and RSS. This is the main feed that feeds my two social media bots – one for Mastodon and one for Bluesky. This single feed includes new YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, daily tips, tips from the

Hello! I have a new Sly Flourish Patreon reward for you today, the Infiltration of Bonespur Keep! This is a City of Arches Adventure Toolkit similar to Secret of Summervine Villa. With it you can build one of several different infiltration / heist style adventures for mid-level characters (about 5th

Hi friends! This past week I parsed more than 1,700 questions and answers from previous Sly Flourish monthly Patreon Q&As and put them into the Sly Flourish Patreon Q&A database! Search this database when you have a question and want to see if it's something I answered before. It goes hand-in-hand w

I just updated Uncovered Secrets Vol 2 to include lists of dungeon-style chambers for 15 different typical dungeons. Use this two-page list to inspire your own dungeon chamber descriptions when filling in maps when preparing your RPGs. Uncovered Secrets 2, along with all of your Patreon rewards, can

Friends! This past weekend I went through all 700ish previous Sly Flourish articles to find the best one hundred and one to put together a single ebook package you can download and enjoy in several different formats. Download the Best of Sly Flourish Ebook Package This package includes these article

The City of Arches PDF has a new update! I've done a full top-to-bottom pass, cleaning up a ton of stuff that has gotten out of sync over the past couple of years. Every biome now has a solid 1d20 random encounter table associated to it. Lots of continuity stuff has been fixed. I added more guidance

Friends! As we close in on the end of 2023 I have two new things for you! First, the City of Arches city sourcebook has been updated! It's now 115 pages and includes the following updates: Expanded "Using the City of Arches" section History of the City of Arches More GM tips sections (the gray boxes

Hello Patron of Sly Flourish! The City of Arches has been updated with about 20 more pages of awesome City of Arches material for you to use in your game. Here's an incomplete list of changes: A new one-page intro scenario you can run in about an hour to introduce you and your players to the City of

Hello friends! I have two new Patreon-exclusive GM aids for you today! The first is an update to the Lazy 5e Cheat Sheet I call the 5e Lazy GM Screen. It's a four-panel PDF you can print and use at your table or stick into any GM screen that allows for 8.5" by 11" inserts. You can also use it my pre

Happy July 2023! The Lazy GM's Random Generator For a few months I've had a "stealth" reward for Sly Flourish patrons called the Lazy GM's Random Generator. This is a nice meaty random generator for monuments, NPCs, items, traps, and treasure all flavored with lore of numerous published game setting

Hello, patron of Sly Flourish! This month I have new updates to the City of Arches sourcebook! I've added a new five-page section outlining the people, locations, and encounters in the Lower Reaches – the seedy underbelly of the City of Arches. You'll also find new locations in the upper city itself

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

Hello friend! As a Patreon of Sly Flourish I wanted you to give you an early look at the 29 page preview for the upcoming Forge of Foes Kickstarter! This preview has some awesome table-usable tools you can use right away and gives you a great look at what's to store in the book itself. You can downl

Hello friend! The City of Arches sourcebook has been updated with some awesome new stuff including: The Library of Vassa location on page 9 Museum of Worlds Beyond location on page 10 Old Kardash location on page 11 (a fun haunted house!) The Exiled Mage of Kartan stat block on page 23 The Tomb Wigh

Hello friend! I just released a major update to the City of Arches sourcebook. The book now weighs in at 55 pages. Here are the major updates: New location: "The Hole in the World" on page 9. New "Cult Fanatics of the City of Arches" NPC stat block - usable as a drop in replacement for the cult fana