I love random tables - I like the way they can get me started on something that I'm feeling some "blank page" inertia about, the way they help me get out of a rut or prompt me...

On the Sly Flourish Discord we have a channel where people can share things that they've made - which could be art, an adventure, a blog post, etc. It is great to see all the...

I’m going to be starting a Curse of Strahd campaign with my brother and sister-in-law (who have been playing with me for a while) and my sister and brother-in-law (who will be...

I was listening to last week's Readings and Reflections podcast for the Hero Tier Sly Flourish Patrons, where Mike Shea was reading a chapter on Lazy World Building from his...

Continuing my efforts to dig into blog posts that I saved as interesting, but hadn't yet dug into - I enjoyed reading this post on D&D Beyond by Alyssa Visscher. She has a...

A little while ago I came across this blog post by Johnn Four, which got me thinking again about one of my favorite topics: how to build internal tensions with a faction. I...

Earlier this year I did a listen back through one of my favorite RPG podcasts: the RPG Mainframe by Runehammer (the creator of many names). It was a treasure trove of great...

On the Sly Flourish Discord server we have a channel called Explore Your Hoard. People use it for a variety of things related to their RPG collection. Often it is showing...

I came across a really interesting video on the travellers you might meet on a medieval road. I summarized the main points into a d10 list (I love a good random table), but the...

There is a lot of great RPG advice out there: blog posts, YouTube videos, podcasts. I consume a lot of it - perhaps to an unhealthy degree! But it makes me happy, and I enjoy...