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<blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5164667" data-attributes="member: 18701"><p>Does cleaning up the game room count as prep time? What about taking a shower and brushing my teeth? I think prepping myself is just as important for the players arrival...nobody wants to smell me...I stink.</p><p></p><p>Other than that, I spend a lot of time prepping for the game. But I prepare material way in advance. Then when it comes close to game time, I'll refresh my memory on what is happening that session. So I don't know how my prep time compares to game time. I do an insane amount of prep work, but a lot of it is just compiling info for my Excel sheet that will improve my DMing for years and years and speed up future preparation time (reference sheets, charts, things like that). </p><p></p><p>I spend a huge amount of time building tools for myself, and building material for the game. I enjoy it though, so I never think of DMing as being extra work. Even picking out miniatures and tiles to use is fun for me. I guess I can't really give any tips on minimizing prep time since my opinion is that the more time I spend prepping, the better my game will be. What is important to me is minimizing in-game wastes of time, like looking up rules, figuring out random treasure, finding info about magic items or gear, etc etc. That's where my Excel sheet comes into play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oryan77, post: 5164667, member: 18701"] Does cleaning up the game room count as prep time? What about taking a shower and brushing my teeth? I think prepping myself is just as important for the players arrival...nobody wants to smell me...I stink. Other than that, I spend a lot of time prepping for the game. But I prepare material way in advance. Then when it comes close to game time, I'll refresh my memory on what is happening that session. So I don't know how my prep time compares to game time. I do an insane amount of prep work, but a lot of it is just compiling info for my Excel sheet that will improve my DMing for years and years and speed up future preparation time (reference sheets, charts, things like that). I spend a huge amount of time building tools for myself, and building material for the game. I enjoy it though, so I never think of DMing as being extra work. Even picking out miniatures and tiles to use is fun for me. I guess I can't really give any tips on minimizing prep time since my opinion is that the more time I spend prepping, the better my game will be. What is important to me is minimizing in-game wastes of time, like looking up rules, figuring out random treasure, finding info about magic items or gear, etc etc. That's where my Excel sheet comes into play. [/QUOTE]
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