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DM Prep Work Leading To Burnout: Help?
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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3615984" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>I had the same problem as the OP. I was prepping, zooming in e-tools, using MS Publisher and exporting to .pdf and going nuts with a professionally polished (and illustrated) log with 5-8 pages detailing each session the party played. All the players agreed: it was utterly and extremely cool.</p><p></p><p>And it was a helluva lot of work. It became like having a third job (I have two already).</p><p></p><p>My solution? I stopped the scratch adventures and stopped the log entirely. Zip. Ziplch. Nada. Full stop.</p><p></p><p>I swtiched my campaign over to the Age of Worms. Prep became reading the adventure quite thoroughly and reading it again and again before the sessions. I'd tweak here and there - and after 20 months or so I actually wrote an entirely new module for the Aow AP that takes place just prior to the <em>Spire of Long Shadows </em> to boost the party a level and a half.</p><p></p><p>It's the first serious design work for PnP I've done in 20 months +for my campaign. It's fun and I do miss it - but the plain fact is that I <strong>don't</strong> miss doing it for every session. It will burn you out.</p><p></p><p>So to the OP: run an Adventure Path (Shackled City, Age of Worms or Savage Tide) and lighten your load for a bit. Let some of the best designers in the business do that work for you and you concentrate instead on the fun of being a DM for a while.</p><p></p><p>It will do you a world of good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 3615984, member: 20741"] I had the same problem as the OP. I was prepping, zooming in e-tools, using MS Publisher and exporting to .pdf and going nuts with a professionally polished (and illustrated) log with 5-8 pages detailing each session the party played. All the players agreed: it was utterly and extremely cool. And it was a helluva lot of work. It became like having a third job (I have two already). My solution? I stopped the scratch adventures and stopped the log entirely. Zip. Ziplch. Nada. Full stop. I swtiched my campaign over to the Age of Worms. Prep became reading the adventure quite thoroughly and reading it again and again before the sessions. I'd tweak here and there - and after 20 months or so I actually wrote an entirely new module for the Aow AP that takes place just prior to the [I]Spire of Long Shadows [/I] to boost the party a level and a half. It's the first serious design work for PnP I've done in 20 months +for my campaign. It's fun and I do miss it - but the plain fact is that I [B]don't[/B] miss doing it for every session. It will burn you out. So to the OP: run an Adventure Path (Shackled City, Age of Worms or Savage Tide) and lighten your load for a bit. Let some of the best designers in the business do that work for you and you concentrate instead on the fun of being a DM for a while. It will do you a world of good. [/QUOTE]
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