Jul 29, 2026 · 59 min · 14 segments
Join Ang and Jared as they sit down with Mike Shea from Sly Flourish and talk about his latest GMing advice book, Rise of the Lazy Game Master, as well as a bunch of other topics related to creating…
So you are currently kickstarting the Rise of the Lazy Game Master.
Which is, I believe, the third in your series of Previously Lazy DM series.
Ooh.
I was gonna say, like, I can't remember for sure, 'cause I had, I have the really old one.
[laughs]
L- l- lazy, the original Lazy Dungeon Master, Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, The Lazy DM's Companion, The Lazy DM's Workbook, Forge of Foes, and now Rise of the Lazy Game Master, so yeah, it's the sixth.
I remember I read that very first one thinking, "Oh, this might be a little bit out of date," because it wasn't until, like, 2017 or something that I got around to that.
And there was still a lot of stuff in that where I was like, "Oh, that s- still makes perfect sense."
So it's one, and part of, one of the packages or several of the packages that we have on the Kickstarter include the original book, mostly as, like, a historic artifact.
Uh, I actually released the text in a Creative Commons license, so anybody who wants to go read the book can just hit my website and, and see it and, and download it.
We actually have a question about that.
You released, uh, much of it for free.
Uh, what were your thoughts behind doing that?
So you are currently kickstarting the Rise of the Lazy Game Master.
Which is, I believe, the third in your series of Previously Lazy DM series.
Ooh.
I was gonna say, like, I can't remember for sure, 'cause I had, I have the really old one.
[laughs]
L- l- lazy, the original Lazy Dungeon Master, Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, The Lazy DM's Companion, The Lazy DM's Workbook, Forge of Foes, and now Rise of the Lazy Game Master, so yeah, it's the sixth.
I remember I read that very first one thinking, "Oh, this might be a little bit out of date," because it wasn't until, like, 2017 or something that I got around to that.
And there was still a lot of stuff in that where I was like, "Oh, that s- still makes perfect sense."
So it's one, and part of, one of the packages or several of the packages that we have on the Kickstarter include the original book, mostly as, like, a historic artifact.
Uh, I actually released the text in a Creative Commons license, so anybody who wants to go read the book can just hit my website and, and see it and, and download it.
We actually have a question about that.
You released, uh, much of it for free.
Uh, what were your thoughts behind doing that?
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