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Video Preview: Two Tools for Better D&D Combat Encounter Building
Hello! Here's a sneak preview of a video I shot yesterday offering two tools that work together to help you run better D&D combat encounters. Enjoy!
Sly Flourish Hardcover Limited Discounts – Buy Now!
Hello patron of Sly Flourish!DriveThruRPG announced that prices of premium quality print runs will be increasing substantially in July. Thus, Sly Flourish hardcovers will be going up between $5 and $10 starting in July.This month only you can get Sly Flourish hardcovers with ultra-high-quality color printing at the ori...
June 2021 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Hello patron of Sly Flourish! Thank you so much for your continued support!In thanks for your patronage you have access to all of the following stuff: Sly Flourish's Adventure Generators Sly Flourish's Uncovered Secrets Exclusive Adventure: Regnum Rattus – The Rats in the Cellar Exclusive Adventure: Vault of ...
Sneak Preview: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Review
Hello!Here's a sneak preview of my review of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. In short, it's awesome. See the YouTube show notes for a nice video table of contents.Enjoy!
Patreon Exclusive Video: Four Tools for D&D Improv
Hello patron of Sly Flourish!Here's a special short DM Tip video just for you.Enjoy!
Video Preview: Be Nice to 1st Level Characters
Hello! Here's a sneak preview of an upcoming three minute YouTube video on how to be nicer to 1st level characters. Enjoy and thank you for the support!
Running Heists and Capers with Johnn Four
Hello patron of Sly Flourish!Johnn Four from Roleplaying Tips and I partnered up to do a series of four YouTube videos to help GMs run awesome RPGs! You can get the first video on "Situations and the Five Room Dungeon", no strings attached, at the following URL:https://youtu.be/L0xYZZoxVY0You can get the next v...
Youtube Video Preview: Secrets Serve You!
Hello Patrons of Sly Flourish!Another early video preview for you today. Four and a half minutes on ensuring that secrets and clues serve you!I'm not sure when this is going "live" but you can enjoy it in the meantime!Thank you again for your support!
Run Easy D&D Battles: D&D Tip Video Preview
Hello! This is the second of a couple of short (under four minute) D&D tip videos I recorded this week and wanted to give you a sneak preview. Enjoy!
"Use Published D&D Material" Video Preview
Hello patron of Sly Flourish!I've started a new series of short ~ 3 minute videos on YouTube. I hope to publish one of these a week on top of my other regular YouTube videos. I had a chance to shoot a couple of them today and wanted to give you the first look at the first on using published D&D material.This won...
May 2021 Sly Flourish Patreon Update
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish!I have another big batch of Uncovered Secrets and Adventure Generators for you. This month I've added the following Uncovered Secrets: Building and Maintaining a D&D Group Quest Templates Monster Templates Wilderness Travel Session Zero Checklistand the following Adventure Generators: ...
How did you find the Sly Flourish Patreon?
I'm trying to find out how you wonderful people found out about the Sly Flourish Patreon.How did you first hear about it?Please help me out by answering the following poll.Thank you so much!
April 2021 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Happy April 2021 patrons of Sly Flourish!I've released a massive update to both the Adventure Generators and Uncovered Secrets! You're getting eight new pages of material this month. Here's a list of the updates:New Adventure Generators General Random Tables Encounters of the Frozen North The KeepNew Uncove...
Fantastic Adventures Hardcover $5 Off
Three years after its initial release, we now have a hardcover version of the original Fantastic Adventures!As patrons of Sly Flourish I wanted to offer it to you for $5 off the cover price. If you want the best version of this book on your shelf, this is the one to get.The following link will add the Fantastic Adventu...
March 2021 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish! As always, thank you so much for your support.As a reminder, as patrons of Sly Flourish, you have access to all of the following benefits:Regnum Rattus – The Rats in the Cellar. The innkeeper Eli Merrow calls upon old friends to travel into the darkness beneath his inn and slay the horr...
Huge Sale on Sly Flourish's Books
Howdy! I just wanted to let you know that nearly all of the digital versions of my books are on sale as part of DriveThruRPG's GM's Day Sale!They'll be on sale until 15 March but I wouldn't wait until the last minute! You have no idea how many times I hear people say they missed a sale by like an hour.C...
Vault of the Dread Syphon
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish!You can now download a new Sly Flourish adventure, Vault of the Dread Syphon, exclusive to Sly Flourish patrons!In this 1st level adventure, the characters hunt for a dark artifact of an evil necromancer in an ancient vault of the Magocracy of the Black Star.Thank you once again for your s...
February 2021 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish!As always, thank you so much for your outstanding support. Your support helps me publish articles and videos every week to help DMs run awesome D&D games for their friends and family.Patreon ExclusivesThis week, I've added Wilderness Encounters to Sly Flourish's Adventure Generator...
Fantastic Lairs Now for Sale!
Hello patron of Sly Flourish!If you happened to miss the Kickstarter, my latest book, Fantastic Lairs, is now available for sale!Buy Fantastic Lairs at DriveThruRPGJames Introcaso, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, and I partnered together to bring you a book of 23 boss battles and climactic encounters you can drop right into you...
Rime of the Frostmaiden Campaign Notebook and Tools
For most of 2020 I've been running a D&D Eberron campaign, streaming my prep sessions on Twitch, and archiving them on Youtube. That campaign is coming to a close and both of my groups will soon be moving to the latest D&D hardback adventure Rime of the Frostmaiden.I've started building a Rime of the Frostmaide...
January 2021 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Sly Flourish Patreon newsletter for the new year! Thank you so much for your continued support to Sly Flourish.As patrons of Sly Flourish you have access to the exclusive adventure Regnum Rattus: The Rats in the Cellar. You also have access to Sly Flourish's Uncovered Secrets...
December 2020 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish! Thank you all so much for your continued support for the articles, videos, podcast episodes, and the other related work of Sly Flourish.As patrons of Sly Flourish you have access to the exclusive adventure Regnum Rattus: The Rats in the Cellar. You also have access to Sly Flourish's U...
November 2020 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish! Thank you again for your support in keeping the Sly Flourish empire going!This month I've added the City Generator to the Adventure Generators and Building Lazy Encounters to Sly Flourish's Uncovered Secrets; two of your continually growing rewards for your support here on Patreon...
October 2020 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish! This is your Sly Flourish patron newsletter for October 2020.This month I've added Jaws to the Adventure Generators and Zone-based Combat to Sly Flourish's Uncovered Secrets. I'll be expanding both of these patron-exclusive supplements in the months ahead.As a patron of Sly Fl...
September 2020 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Greetings patrons of Sly Flourish! Thanks to your patronage I've been able to expand Sly Flourish in numerous ways. Since setting up this Patreon I've expanded significantly with Youtube, posting one to two videos a week including Lazy DM Prep episodes and shorter videos such as the importance of names and runn...
Fantastic Adventures Deal of the Day and Patreon-Exclusive Adventure Generators
Hello patrons of Sly Flourish!I wanted you to be the first to know thatthe ebook package of Sly Flourish's Fantastic Adventures is a Deal of the Day sale on DriveThruRPG for $4.50! FantasticAdventures includes ten adventures for 2nd through 4th level characters for your fifth edition fantasy RPG. This digital packa...
August 2020 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Here's your official Sly Flourish Patreon newsletter for August 2020!With your support I've been able to put up the Sly Flourish weekly newsletter. This newsletter sends the latest Sly Flourish article to your email inbox every Monday morning.Scott Gray, James Introcaso, and I are all hard at work on Fantastic ...
July 2020 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Behold the Sly Flourish Patreon newsletter for July 2020!This past month Scott Gray, James Introcaso, and myself all ran the Kickstarter for Fantastic Lairs, a book of twenty-three boss battles and climactic encounters for 5e. The Kickstarter went very well, with ten stretch goals crossed including thirteen extra lairs...
Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter, June 2020
Behold the June 2020 newsletter for patrons of Sly Flourish! Thank you all again for your outstanding support to help fund the infrastructure behind Sly Flourish.Fantastic Lairs Kickstarter Underway!The Kickstarter for Fantastic Lairs has begun and already we've crossed three stretch goals! We're well on our wa...
May 2020 Sly Flourish Patreon Newsletter
Behold the exclusive Patreon Sly Flourish newsletter!Rats in the CellarJust a reminder, as an official patron of Sly Flourish you have access to Regnum Rattus: the Rats in the Cellar, a 1st to 5th level D&D adventure. Enjoy!Playing D&D During a PandemicIt's been quite a month for all of us. I count myself very luck...
