• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    With experience, one learn that players will need 5 minutes to destroy 5hours of game prep. So indeed, sticky notes and bullet points do wonder.

    Also, somehow, modern games do wonder at reducing the amount of game prep

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      7 months ago

      With experience, one learn that players will need 5 minutes to destroy 5hours of game prep.

      Yeah. I once had a player compliment me “you put so much effort into this session”.

      That session was just the dregs that didn’t fit into several previous play sessions that the party had derailed.

      So I guess technically I did a bunch of prep, at some point, earlier.

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        7 months ago

        It takes a bit of time to adjust your thinking, but it’s actually easier to prep scenes instead of plots once you get the hang of it. You were preparing them in the middle of your plots anyway, so it’s not like it’s more work than before.

        The hardest part is resisting the urge to prepare a monologue you know will likely never happen in-game.