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- Playing RPGs can Save Your Life
- The Eight Steps for Lazy Dungeon Masters
- The Lazy GM's Resource Document
- How to be a Great Player
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- City of Arches
- Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Lazy DM's Companion
- Lazy DM's Workbook
- The Lazy DM's Forge of Foes
- Fantastic Lairs
- Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot
- Fantastic Adventures
- Fantastic Locations
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Lazy Game Mastering
- Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- The Eight Steps for Lazy Dungeon Masters
- Running Session Zeros
- Review the Characters
- Start Strong
- Scenes – The Catch-all Step
- Secrets and Clues
- Choose the Right Steps
- Using The Eight Steps At the Table
GM Tools
- Tools of the Lazy Dungeon Master
- Safety Tools and Pause for a Minute
- The Lazy 5e Cheat Sheet
- The Pathfinder Basic Flip Mat
- Dysonlogo Maps
- Lazy Monster Tokens
- Using Notion.so for Lazy RPG Prep
- Using Obsidian for Lazy RPG Prep
- Write a One-Page Campaign Guide
- Easy Initiative Cards
GM Advice
- Find Local Players for Tabletop RPGs
- It's Five Minutes to Game Time
- Improve Pacing
- Upward and Downward Beats
- Spiral Campaign Building
- Campfire Story Prompts During Rests
- Create Villains
- Recover from a Bad Game
- Get Ideas for your RPGs
- A GM's Reading List
Adventure Types
- Dungeon Crawls
- Infiltrations and Heists
- Investigations and Mysteries
- Overland Exploration and Travel
- Missions and Quest Chains
- Defense
- Roleplay and Intrigue
- Combat
- Mashups and the Undefined
Combat Encounters
- The Lazy Encounter Benchmark
- Running "Theater of the Mind" Combat
- Abstract Battlemaps
- Track Combat in 5e
- Choose Monsters Based on the Story
- Dials of Monster Difficulty
- Lightning Rods — Showcase Powerful Character Abilities
- Reskin Monsters
- Run Hordes
- Run Easy Battles
- Improve Boss Fights
Run RPGs Online
- Experiences Running RPGs Online
- Two Years Playing RPGs Online
- Awesome Tools for Online Play
- Playing RPGs over Discord
- Organizing Digital RPG Materials
- Interviewing New Players for Online Games
- Share PDFs with your Players
Lazy GM's Resource Documents and Tools
The following material from the Lazy DM series has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution license:
- Lazy GM's Resource Document
- Lazy GM's 5e Monster Builder Resource Document
- Lazy GM Reference Docs Multi-Format Package. Markdown, EPUB, HTML, JSON, etc.
- Lazy GM Tools on Github
Older Books
The following older books are available here for free under a Creative Commons license.
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