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DMs: How Much of Your Prep Work Never Gets Used??
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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2719267" data-attributes="member: 22622"><p>A thread after my own heart.</p><p></p><p>I was just fretting today (and will include it in my blog after session) about several well designed towns and a dungeon the pcs completely bipassed. I assumed from their banter the previous game that they were heading in the direction of negotiating a trade with a local town, unfortuneatly the pcs picked the wrong tribal village, there were some poor diplomacy rolls, a hostage situation took place and one of the pcs offered another pc as a negotiation trade. Lets say the interaction went completely south fast and all my prepwork for the town (including coming up with names like "running with trees" and Biting own tail" will go the way of the 8-track now. The session went as badily as an episode of Knights of the Dinner Table. Women and children were accidently killed by a misplaced fireball attack, the village had to evacuate for fear of the pcs and the pcs stole the food horde. </p><p></p><p>On average I lose 20 percent but this time around about 75 percent was lost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 2719267, member: 22622"] A thread after my own heart. I was just fretting today (and will include it in my blog after session) about several well designed towns and a dungeon the pcs completely bipassed. I assumed from their banter the previous game that they were heading in the direction of negotiating a trade with a local town, unfortuneatly the pcs picked the wrong tribal village, there were some poor diplomacy rolls, a hostage situation took place and one of the pcs offered another pc as a negotiation trade. Lets say the interaction went completely south fast and all my prepwork for the town (including coming up with names like "running with trees" and Biting own tail" will go the way of the 8-track now. The session went as badily as an episode of Knights of the Dinner Table. Women and children were accidently killed by a misplaced fireball attack, the village had to evacuate for fear of the pcs and the pcs stole the food horde. On average I lose 20 percent but this time around about 75 percent was lost. [/QUOTE]
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