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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3316699" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Raloc: Good advice. Let me add my own thoughts:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One additional bit of preparation that I find helps me alot is to right down the PC's spot/listen/search, fort/reflex/will, and AC's and keep them in front of me on a handy peice of paper. Not only does this minimize the amount of time that I have to waste asking the player for information off of his character sheet, but it has the additional advantage of minimizing the amount of metagame knowledge being exchanged. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've waffled back and forth on this over the years, but currently I've come to the conclusion that this is very good advice indeed. I use to worry that players wouldn't be as engaged when I read from a prepared text, but in my experience - and particularly in my experience as a player - I find that prepared text isn't distracting at all but quite the contracy, quite exciting. Players seem to dig it, and it means that you won't be stuttering for something to say or forget and leave off an important detail when describing something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3316699, member: 4937"] Raloc: Good advice. Let me add my own thoughts: One additional bit of preparation that I find helps me alot is to right down the PC's spot/listen/search, fort/reflex/will, and AC's and keep them in front of me on a handy peice of paper. Not only does this minimize the amount of time that I have to waste asking the player for information off of his character sheet, but it has the additional advantage of minimizing the amount of metagame knowledge being exchanged. I've waffled back and forth on this over the years, but currently I've come to the conclusion that this is very good advice indeed. I use to worry that players wouldn't be as engaged when I read from a prepared text, but in my experience - and particularly in my experience as a player - I find that prepared text isn't distracting at all but quite the contracy, quite exciting. Players seem to dig it, and it means that you won't be stuttering for something to say or forget and leave off an important detail when describing something. [/QUOTE]
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