The Lazy Dungeon Master

You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out you could spend less time, less energy, and have a better game as a result?It's time to unleash the Lazy Dungeon Master.Written in the style of Sly Flourish's Dungeon Master Tips and Running Epic Tier D&D Games, The Lazy Dungeon Master shows a new approach to game preparation, one that takes less time and gives your game the freedom to grow at the table. This book will help dungeon master prepare awesome games for any version of D&D.Based on the real-world experiences of hundreds of dungeon masters and dozens of professional game designers, the Lazy Dungeon Master includes interviews with veteran D&D DMs and a complete toolkit to help you improvise an entire game.Whether you play 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Pathfinder, or the D&D Next playtest; The Lazy Dungeon Master has tips, techniques, and advice to make preparation easier and help you run a flexible and entertaining game.

I’m Keima Masuda, the Dungeon Master, still chasing my dream to live a life without work. Just as we settled that Leona business, Haku piled more work onto us... She wants us to destroy some artificial dungeon plant in the Holy Kingdom, but I just got back from Daide and want to chill at home! What to do, then? “I may have an idea that will neatly solve all of these problems. May I speak?” At Toi's suggestion, who Haku had forced onto me, I decided to go to the Holy Kingdom by possessing a monster's body. Now I can work while still chilling in bed... Wait, Rokuko's coming with me?! This is Volume 14 of my own kind of dungeon story! I guess this is one way of working from home?!

"Come on, kill all those bandits for me already!" "No thanks. I don't wanna do any work." My name is Keima Masuda, and my hobby is spending each day doing exactly nothing... but one fateful night, I was summoned to another world where I met a blonde young girl who I named Rokuko. It seemed that fortune had favored me and I would soon be living a wonderful life free of work. But even though I'm a guy who loves sleeping more than eating, Rokuko demanded that I help her. "Save my dungeon! By the way, since you're the Dungeon Master, you'll die too if the Dungeon Core is destroyed." The dungeon only had one room, and it was already surrounded by bandits. Seriously? It's a checkmate already. I've gotta break out of this impossible situation so I can stop working and just sleep!

I'm Keima Masuda, a Dungeon Master aiming for a life without work. I finally got back home from the imperial capital, only to find a whole new town on the other side of the mountain! Apparently they're copying our town and they have their own inn. In other words, less customers and work for me! Heck yeah! Or so I thought, but... Why am I getting more customers? There's even someone with a suspicious-sounding "Artifical Dungeon"... "You always see right through me, Keima... Perhaps this, too, is proof of our love." The crazy High Priestess from that crazy Holy Kingdom is here too?! This is Volume 12 of my own kind of dungeon story, where I show everyone the difference between a fake and the real thing!

I’m Keima Masuda, the Dungeon Master, still chasing my dream to live a life without work. Aidy finally returned to the Demon Realm, but sadly, peace only lasted for so long. “Papa! Mama! Hi, I’m your daughter!” Out of nowhere, Rokuko and I had our first child?! Why?! Isn’t Haku going to kill me now?! I narrowly avoided death by being frank as possible, but in return got stuck solving some problems in Daide. That would have been fine, but Leona had traps waiting for us?! This is volume 15 of my own kind of dungeon story, now starting a school life as a parent!

Masuda Keima just wants to sleep. Too bad for him, he's been pulled from comfy sheets into a fantasy dungeon that he's charged to protect. Failing to do so will cost him his life. His only guide on what to do is the personification of the Dungeon Core, Rokuko. But she's a moron who can't even figure out how to get rid of a group of bandits. If Keima ever wants to get some sweet dreams again, he'll have to do all the planning himself!

It's been about one year since I started managing this dungeon with dreams of living a work-free life. A nice and relaxed spring was ahead of me... until I ended up thrown into a three-way Dungeon Battle?! What the hell happened at the Dungeon Core gathering...? Wait, we're on a team with our guardian Core? And Rokuko's guardian is Haku, right?! Uh, given how romantic things have been getting between me and Rokuko, I'm gonna have to say n—  "I look forward to battling with you on my side, Keima." "S-Same to you, ahaha!"  Am I gonna die before the Dungeon Battle even starts?! This is Volume 5 of my own lazy kind of dungeon story!Â