Another RPG Bundle - Sly Flourish

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A repeat bundle - should have posted this a bit earlier but got sidetracked. Sly Flourish, material for fantasy campaigns, last offered in April last year.

Sly Flourish

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023Flourish

This revived April 2022 Sly Flourish Bundle offer once again presents the Lazy Dungeon Master and Fantastic Adventures lines from Sly Flourish. Since 2009 the Lazy DM himself, Mike Shea, has published books, articles, podcasts, and videos that help gamemasters run great RPG sessions. With the core doctrine of "prepare what matters to our game," the Sly Flourish books detail eight steps to help DMs quickly conjure exactly what they need at the table, with a focus on staying flexible and being able to improvise as the story expands. And the Fantastic Adventures series takes that wisdom from the table to the page, with scenarios, lairs, and locations you can easily drop into any fantasy campaign.

Across nearly 15 years Mike has built a reputation for sensible advice and quality work among his 54,000 YouTube subscribers, his many Patreon supporters, and a sequence of seven successful Kickstarter campaigns, culminating in the September 2021 campaign for The Lazy DM's Companion – 10,840 backers, US$388K.

We provide each title complete in .PDF; some ebooks are also presented in ePub format. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this Sly Flourish revival's designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

The total retail value of the titles in this revived Sly Flourish Bundle is US$96. Customers who pay just US$5.95 get all four titles in this revival's Lazy Collection (retail value $21) as DRM-free ebooks, including the book that started it all, Sly Flourish's DM Tips (retail price $2), plus The Lazy Dungeon Master (retail $6) and Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master (retail $8) along with The Lazy DM's Workbook (retail $5).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Fantastic Collection with eight more titles worth an additional $75.50:

• Fantastic Adventures: Ruins of the Grendleroot 5E (retail price $15) and the Grendleroot Artbook and Map Pack (retail $5)
• Fantastic Lairs: 23 Boss Battles for Your 5E RPG (retail $15) and the Lairs Artbook (retail $5)
• Sly Flourish's Fantastic Locations (retail $15) and the Locations Artbook (retail $5)
• Sly Flourish's Fantastic Adventures (retail $15) and the Adventures Artbook (retail $5)

Last time I said "I'll be honest - it's about 35 years since I last ran a dungeon-bashing sort of adventure and I have no particular desire to start again, so I'm definitely not the market this is aimed at. Since this has come in about five minutes before I head to bed I haven't checked it out properly, so all I can say is that the presentation looks OK and you seem to be getting a lot for your money. I can only suggest that you judge for yourselves."

Unfortunately I still haven't done my homework on this one - and since I'm running an adventure at Dragonmeet on Saturday and need to revise a lot of it that isn't going to happen. One thing I should emphasise is that there doesn't seem to be any new material this time - if there was previous buyers would get it automatically anyway, so there's no point in checking it out if you already have it.