Recent content by Grimstead

My Results. OP here for those of you who don't remember. I've been keeping up with this advice... why else ask for it? And I thought I had might as well show what I've come up with. So here is my new way of Prepping to Improvise For Overplanners. I've been using OneNote since the second...

Wanted to acknowledge and thank everybody for their advice so far. I'm coming to the realization that my overly thorough prep may stem from the fact that I'm a worldbuilder more than a player or a DM. Before play even began, my (unfinished and still growing) setting document was 86 pages long...

Thanks a lot to everyone so far, even without actual posted notes, this is providing me and hopefully others, eventually, with a lot of insight. Anyone else?

Kind of you to post links to those, and I'll read them through, but to be honest I'm pretty up on most articles like this... I periodically go into a research and developement phase for my DMing (such as now) and read eeeverything I can find. (Hey wait... a closer look some of these did yield...

Hey everybody. I'm a longtime 3.5e and Pathfinder DM, and I'm trying to up my game. I find that I spend way, way too much time prepping my sessions. 4-6 hours sometimes for a 3-4 hour game. These are 100% custom adventures in a homegrown world, but still. I've been trying to figure out why this...