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<blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 4722739" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Hey, thanks for dropping in. I'm really glad you find the thread useful. That is kinda the whole point.</p><p></p><p>As far as my prep time, there are two broad-brush answers, neither of which is very useful. One is "It varies a lot." and the other is "It depends on what you mean by 'prepping'."</p><p></p><p>I think about my games quite a bit. In the shower, driving places, when talking to friends in Chat at CM. It's one of the things that I enjoy about running a game that it gives me something interesting to think about. I can't guess at how many hours a week I spend doing that. But I'm not sure I count that as prep time.</p><p></p><p>In terms of the nuts and bolts of getting the game ready, I spend more time on things like player handouts, writing down magic items on notecards and things of that nature than I do messing with monster stats. I have done a fair bit of reskinning and adjusting stats. But with the Compendium this is really no big deal in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>When I have an idea for a monster I usually do a quick search for some general term that I think will get me close to my concept. That pulls up a list of baddies. I take a minute or two skimming through them to pick one that I like. Then I simply cut and paste that into Word, edit any parts that I want to change, and print that sucker out. Then I put it in a notebook where I keep all the monsters for my campaign and I'm done. I'd guess that I never spend more than an hour on that part of the prep and it's probably less than 30 minutes most of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rel, post: 4722739, member: 99"] Hey, thanks for dropping in. I'm really glad you find the thread useful. That is kinda the whole point. As far as my prep time, there are two broad-brush answers, neither of which is very useful. One is "It varies a lot." and the other is "It depends on what you mean by 'prepping'." I think about my games quite a bit. In the shower, driving places, when talking to friends in Chat at CM. It's one of the things that I enjoy about running a game that it gives me something interesting to think about. I can't guess at how many hours a week I spend doing that. But I'm not sure I count that as prep time. In terms of the nuts and bolts of getting the game ready, I spend more time on things like player handouts, writing down magic items on notecards and things of that nature than I do messing with monster stats. I have done a fair bit of reskinning and adjusting stats. But with the Compendium this is really no big deal in my opinion. When I have an idea for a monster I usually do a quick search for some general term that I think will get me close to my concept. That pulls up a list of baddies. I take a minute or two skimming through them to pick one that I like. Then I simply cut and paste that into Word, edit any parts that I want to change, and print that sucker out. Then I put it in a notebook where I keep all the monsters for my campaign and I'm done. I'd guess that I never spend more than an hour on that part of the prep and it's probably less than 30 minutes most of the time. [/QUOTE]
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