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The Lazy DM's Companion: Guidelines and inspiration to help you run awesome fifth edition roleplaying games.

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Winner of the 2022 Gold ENNIE for Best Electronic Book!

The Lazy DM's Companion is a 64 page book of guidelines and inspirational generators to help you build, prepare, and run awesome D&D games. Sitting alongside Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master and Lazy DM's Workbook , the Lazy DM's Companion streamlines play and fires off your imagination to build awesome and unique worlds for you and your players to explore.

Each page of this 64-page book offers useful guidelines, an adventure or campaign generator, or a versatile map within which to build your own adventures. These

LAZY DM GUIDELINES
5E TOOLS
CAMPAIGN TOOLS
ADVENTURE INSPIRATION
MAPS

The Lazy DM's Companion includes a number of maps built for the same kind of versatility, including overland pointcrawl maps, castle ruins, dungeons, and caverns. Each map is intended to serve multiple themes in multiple ways, working hand-in-hand with the adventure generators included in The Lazy DM's Companion.

64 pages, Paperback

Published August 27, 2022

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I love Mike Shea. Everything he creates is good, and he's a nice man.
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A tiny collection of punched up blog posts on DMing from Micheal Shea. The "Session Zero Checklist" was useful but there's nothing here that's mind blowing or worth going out of your way to read.
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