The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Sep 4, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
Mike prepares the next session of his Tales of the Valiant Dragon Empire campaign. - Visit the Sly Flourish Blogs…
This is one of those fun moments in your game prep where you're like, we're going to be taking down the largest, richest empire in Midgard and figuring out how does this fall apart? How does this massive empire fall apart? That's the prep that we are doing today.
not when it's actually practical to the next session you're running which is today where they are going to help determine how an empire falls so uh so that's that's pretty fun so today's so in last week's game we only had four player do we have four i think we had four players three maybe it's only three i don't remember few players and i think it was four i think we had four players And they made their way.
She was very likely to be the new leader of the Morza should Marat, the current leader of the Morza, retire, which he had kind of planned to do, one way or the other.
She was either going to kill him, she was actually building a weapon to kill him called a godslayer, and that was in case he would not leave.
She might have killed him anyway, right? Who knows? She might have said, like, look, you're too dangerous to just retire, so we're going to kill you.
rule over the dragon empire so she was playing a rule over the dragon empire she was building a weapon to do so she was an archmage on top of being an ancient red dragon the characters faced her and killed her They went to her city, known as Numera, an ancient ruined city, hidden city, filled with her fanatical loyal group of people known as the Ghostwalkers of Lashmorak, her own brand, her own sect of Ghostwalkers who are against the Ghostwalkers of the Pale Mother, another group.
And they were completely isolated from any of the other dragons or any of the other things going on in the world.
So she kept her armies together so that she could unleash them upon the world at her own leisure.
That is an artifact that... flays the mind of anyone attempting to scry upon her while she's in the city or anything in the city or uh discorporates anybody who attempts to try to teleport in or out that um uh uh you know that she doesn't want no that i don't even think she wanted to think she always flew in so uh the characters they killed her and then the last session the characters were figuring out what to do then they were very worried about her two sons showing up she has two adult dragon sons um that had heard her wail and death and flew in and they saw her they were mourning her as the characters escaped and they're they're kind of these these guys are not super intelligent they were they were kind of brute you know dragon brutes that were uh kept you know mentally stunted by her so that they would just be fanatical loyal guards to her not they don't have any real intelligence of their own And the characters dropped into the sewers and made their way through the sewers with the plan of infiltrating her palace.
They said, there's no way we're leaving this place without getting some of her gold.
This is one of those fun moments in your game prep where you're like, we're going to be taking down the largest, richest empire in Midgard and figuring out how does this fall apart? How does this massive empire fall apart? That's the prep that we are doing today.
not when it's actually practical to the next session you're running which is today where they are going to help determine how an empire falls so uh so that's that's pretty fun so today's so in last week's game we only had four player do we have four i think we had four players three maybe it's only three i don't remember few players and i think it was four i think we had four players And they made their way.
She was very likely to be the new leader of the Morza should Marat, the current leader of the Morza, retire, which he had kind of planned to do, one way or the other.
She was either going to kill him, she was actually building a weapon to kill him called a godslayer, and that was in case he would not leave.
She might have killed him anyway, right? Who knows? She might have said, like, look, you're too dangerous to just retire, so we're going to kill you.
rule over the dragon empire so she was playing a rule over the dragon empire she was building a weapon to do so she was an archmage on top of being an ancient red dragon the characters faced her and killed her They went to her city, known as Numera, an ancient ruined city, hidden city, filled with her fanatical loyal group of people known as the Ghostwalkers of Lashmorak, her own brand, her own sect of Ghostwalkers who are against the Ghostwalkers of the Pale Mother, another group.
And they were completely isolated from any of the other dragons or any of the other things going on in the world.
So she kept her armies together so that she could unleash them upon the world at her own leisure.
That is an artifact that... flays the mind of anyone attempting to scry upon her while she's in the city or anything in the city or uh discorporates anybody who attempts to try to teleport in or out that um uh uh you know that she doesn't want no that i don't even think she wanted to think she always flew in so uh the characters they killed her and then the last session the characters were figuring out what to do then they were very worried about her two sons showing up she has two adult dragon sons um that had heard her wail and death and flew in and they saw her they were mourning her as the characters escaped and they're they're kind of these these guys are not super intelligent they were they were kind of brute you know dragon brutes that were uh kept you know mentally stunted by her so that they would just be fanatical loyal guards to her not they don't have any real intelligence of their own And the characters dropped into the sewers and made their way through the sewers with the plan of infiltrating her palace.
They said, there's no way we're leaving this place without getting some of her gold.
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