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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 GUIDELINES
Tools for Improvisation
Quick Tricks for Lazy DMs
Building an RPG Group
RPG Safety Tools
Session Zero Checklist
One-on-One Guidelines
Playing RPGs Online
Running Single-Session Games
Teaching New Players
Strong Starts
Creating Secrets and Clues
Building Situations
Understanding Exploration
Spiral Campaigns
Revised Guidelines for Theater of the Mind
Zone-Based Combat
Point Crawls

5E TOOLS
Options for 1st-Level Play
Lazy Combat Encounters
Stress Effects
Monster Difficulty Dials
Elemental Monster Templates
Undead Templates
Improvised Legendary Monsters
Running Hordes
Lazy Treasure Generator

CAMPAIGN TOOLS
NPC Generator
Villain Generator
God Generator
Fallen Kingdoms
Cult Generator
Alien Worlds
Random Environmental Locations
Settlement Generator
Wilderness Exploration
Underground Exploration
Land of the Fey

ADVENTURE INSPIRATION
Core Adventure Generator
Quest Templates
Dogs of War: Running Wars
Haunted Lairs
The Traitor
The Beast
Vengeance for Hire
Protect the Village
The Keep
Invaders
Hunt for the Artifact
The Heist

MAPS

The 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.