Mike Shea offers a variety of amazing content - his published works on DMing, his excellent articles, his terrific YouTube channel, and his podcast series on prepping for games. He is positive, constructive, and mostly objective when reporting on news and other RPG subject matter. I highly recommend consuming all of his products and offerings, including his Patreon. Great value.

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I have listened to many podcasts over the last few years that were focused on helping people become better Dungeon Masters. While I enjoy those as well, the Lazy RPG Podcast is truly a finely tuned GM building machine where one benefits from the vast knowledge and creativity of Mike Shea (host). The podcast gives solid advice and tricks on spending less time prepping for your games and yet also ideas to add to the quality of your presentation to your players. This allows more time for the fun part of coming up with cool ideas or spending more time on other imporant things in life without your RPG game taking any back seats. Not only that, he sounds like he generally enjoys doing it. A show well worth your time to listen to and is my absolute favorite podcast!

Great advice on how to DM and run a game effectively. Thank you for everything.

I’m a DM and find Mike’s prep and discussion to be entertaining and educational. Nice to hear how his campaign is going, and what he is doing to prepare for the upcoming one. Great tips and tricks. Always looking forward to when a new episode drops.

A vital resource and a must listen.

So good, that you will feel "guilty" about not joining his Pateron page, but then you realize, he has these great books. That are totally worth buying, and that helps with my guilt. Any podcast, that Mike Shea, is on is worth you time. I just like how he GMs and how he games and thinks.

I NEED MORE ADVENTURES OF BARUNDOR AND BING!!!!!!

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I don’t know where you find the time to produce these every week on top of all the other things you do, but my hat is off to you (way off). This podcast, like much of Mike’s contributions to the community, is an invaluable resource. Buy his books!

Mike Shay’s Lazy DM books made me love DMing, and listening to him prep and run adventures has been transformational. The audio sound is sometimes really quiet which is annoying, but that’s nothing given the content he is putting out. Love the Dragon of Icespire Peak play through!

Great guests and good conversations. Learned a lot as a new DM. Really appreciate the time set aside for questions.

This podcast is not only full of really useful information for TTRPG players and GMs from a professional that clearly devotes himself to helping people out with this, but Mike Shea has fantastic guests that give insights I would never have thought to want, but are crazy valuable. Flows well and easy to listen to also.

Mike Shea is great, and he has fascinating in-depth discussion with great guests. I have really been enjoying and benefitting from the perspectives he and his guests bring. Quickly became my favorite podcast about GMing.

I’m really enjoying this show and I learn something to implement in my own dming every episode. Thanks for the great show!

Mike has great discussions and insights about D&D! There are great guests, interesting conversations and sometimes game prep that is very informative! Keep it up Mike!

Fasting moving and a great synthesis of fun and serious discussion of D&D. Even when I don’t share his opinion, I want to hear what he has to say because it’s always considered and insightful. My only request: more frequent episodes please!

Excellent guest selection, interesting topics and packed iwth useful information. Keep up the great work.

The DM’s Deep Dive is a great interview show and the perfect place to pick up a variety of helpful DMing tips as well as unique perspectives and ideas on topics ranging from theater of the mind combat to fantasy economies to creating dastardly villains. Mike’s guests are always great and well-informed and his “Lazy DM” advice & products have saved my bacon on many a last-minute prep session!

Mike Shea has so much great advice for making your Dungeons and Dragons games better with his D&D Beyond articles, his blog Sly Flourish and this podcast. This program is especially great because he's able to get other great DMs and game developers like like Matt Mercer to discuss specific areas to improve on. Can't wait for when a new one comes up and love listening to all the episodes over again for more tips.

Minute by minute, this is the best return you’ll get for your valuable time. Mike’s a real pro with a good voice, a great interview style and a proven track record of delivering value to his audience. This is my favorite gaming podcast by far.

I look forward to this podcast every month and listen to it immediately. Both the guests and the host, Mike Shea, are RPG experts and I never fail to garner fantastic tips to improve my own games. Thanks for everything. — Jen / Pixelscapes

Every time I listen to this podcast, I'm inspired to make my game more exciting and more fun for my players and for myself.

Mr. Mike Shea takes a single topic and dissects it with a single guest. It's a simple and effective concept that is enjoyable to listen to. Shea has a knack for breaking down and examining each aspect of this hobby that any level of DM can benefit from listening in on and considering their own ideas regarding whatever the topic is. Thanks Mike for being such a deep diving type of DM and sharing your thoughts with us.

Don't be fooled by the D&D focus, the content is useful and relevant to Game Masters of any rpg. Entertaining and informative for new and old (school) GMs.

The best advice from the best in the biz. Thanks Sly!

Excellent resource for DM's and fun to boot. Great guests as well!

This is a really great resource for new and experienced dms alike. Mike does a great job as host and the guests thus far have been excellent.

Not a lot of wasted time talking about what unrelated thing the host did that weekend like you find on other podcasts. Just meaty D&D goodness with insightful discussions. 👍🏻

Sly flourish is the best love this show can't wait each month for a new episode to deepen my gm knowledge.

The ultimate "inside baseball" podcast for all things D&D. As the podcast title implies, Mike Shea has the ability to drill deep--very deep--into D&D lore, rules, history, and mechanics. He invites guests who share that same ability. The end result is a podcast rich with animated conversation about the selected topic-of-the-month. Unlike the "official" D&D podcast, Mike and his guests don't dawdle in slapstick banter and petty chit-chat. This is all-out, full-bore, serious D&D discussion at its very best. Anyone who loves the hobby as much as Mike obviously does will be enriched by listening.

I am an unabashed disciple of the great Mike Shea and this is yet another amazing product from him!! Thank You!!!

The gaming conversations in this podcast are invaluable to DMs new and old. I've been at this hobby for decades, and listening to Mike's conversations with his guests has allowed me to solidify some habits and question or re-evaluate others. Amazingly helpful.

Keep it up Mike, your insight is invaluable.

I have been a follower of Mike Shae since the D&D4e days. His advice and tips on both his website as well as his published book The Lazy Dungeon Master has always been a welcome down to earth take on Dungeon-mastering. Love the format of the show and will keep watching for more of those amazing tips from fellow long time DM.

Good discussion!

Thanks Mike, this first episode has been extremely helpful for me, I'm listening to it for a second time while I am writing this. Your guest was great and I will definitely keep listening!