Sly Flourish January 2020 Newsletter (Patreon)

Behold the January 2020 Sly Flourish newsletter! 

Ruins of the Grendleroot is out! The book of ten 5th edition adventures I've worked on for the past year has been shipped to all Kickstarter backers and is now available for sale. This is the hardest I've worked on any project and I think it shows in the quality of the book. I hope you'll give it a look.

I've been spending more time on my Discord channel. I even wrote a bot that offers tips, inspiration, traps, monuments, relics, and suggested articles from Sly Flourish. Drop into the channel and poke the bot with a "$help".

With the help of your patronage, I released the following articles, videos, and other bits of D&D goodness.

Articles

Running Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 5, Isle of the Abbey

Timing and Pacing Adventures

Playing D&D Can Save Your Life

Balancing D&D Combat for One-on-One Play

Building Legendary D&D Monsters in your Head

Videos

Lazy D&D Prep: Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Final Enemy Part 2

Dragon of Icespire Peak One-on-One Session 5: Dragon Barrow

Lazy D&D Prep: Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Final Enemy Part 3

Lazy D&D Prep: Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 6, Final Enemy Part 4

Introducing New Players to D&D

Using Maps in D&D Games

Lazy D&D Prep: Ghosts of Saltmarsh Chapter 8, The Styes Part 1

Top Tweets

Want to “challenge” your high level characters? Drop 50 shadows on them in a dark room. That’s a “medium” encounter for level 15 PCs but would likely wipe them out.

#dnd tip: When a character counterspells your big boss’s big spell, let them.

Lazy #dnd tip for running evil clerics: Round 1: Spirit weapon + sacred flame; round 2: Spirit guardians or guiding bolt + spirit weapon attack; round 3: Guiding bolt + spirit weapon attack.; round 4: You’re probably dead. Use inflict wounds in melee. Use highest spell slots. 

#dnd tip: Run adventures twice.

#dnd tip: Assume the adventurers are smart, capable, and observant. Clarify what they might see that the players might not realize.

Thank you all again for supporting Sly Flourish!