The Lazy DM's Companion: Guidelines and inspiration to help you run awesome fifth edition roleplaying games.

Winner of the 2022 Gold ENNIE for Best Electronic Book!The Lazy DM's Companion is a 64 page book of guidelines and inspirational generators to help you build, prepare, and run awesome D&D games. Sitting alongside Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master and Lazy DM's Workbook, the Lazy DM's Companion streamlines play and fires off your imagination to build awesome and unique worlds for you and your players to explore.Each page of this 64-page book offers useful guidelines, an adventure or campaign generator, or a versatile map within which to build your own adventures. These include:LAZY DM GUIDELINESTools for ImprovisationQuick Tricks for Lazy DMsBuilding an RPG GroupRPG Safety ToolsSession Zero ChecklistOne-on-One GuidelinesPlaying RPGs OnlineRunning Single-Session GamesTeaching New PlayersStrong StartsCreating Secrets and CluesBuilding SituationsUnderstanding ExplorationSpiral CampaignsRevised Guidelines for Theater of the MindZone-Based CombatPoint Crawls5E TOOLSOptions for 1st-Level PlayLazy Combat EncountersStress EffectsMonster Difficulty DialsElemental Monster TemplatesUndead TemplatesImprovised Legendary MonstersRunning HordesLazy Treasure GeneratorCAMPAIGN TOOLSNPC GeneratorVillain GeneratorGod GeneratorFallen KingdomsCult GeneratorAlien WorldsRandom Environmental LocationsSettlement GeneratorWilderness ExplorationUnderground ExplorationLand of the FeyADVENTURE INSPIRATIONCore Adventure GeneratorQuest TemplatesDogs of War: Running WarsHaunted LairsThe TraitorThe BeastVengeance for HireProtect the VillageThe KeepInvadersHunt for the ArtifactThe HeistMAPSThe Lazy DM's Companion includes a number of maps built for the same kind of versatility, including overland pointcrawl maps, castle ruins, dungeons, and caverns. Each map is intended to serve multiple themes in multiple ways, working hand-in-hand with the adventure generators included in The Lazy DM's Companion. Read more