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English as a Second Language. Someone suggested earlier that this could be an artifact of importing grammar from another language...

I played in such a convention game run by Tim Kask and even he couldn't make it particularly fun, though the players were experienced...

Actually, sometimes there isn't a fight. And sometimes in my couple of lines of prep I have expected adversaries--how many of X, and and...

In the D&D 5e/Tales of the Valiant games I'm running, mostly the PCs end up in situation, and I react to how they handle them. I run...

The whole idea of "no prep" or "zero prep" seems a lot less interesting to me than "low cognitive load". I tried to run a game with...

I am playing a marijuana-mandatory comedic spelljamming game that's 95% improv. I have a folder of maps and when I have free time I add...

Well, when you play solo, there is no prep. You ask questions to an oracle and see where the adventuring day goes. The Mythic GM...

I've done no prep Shadowdark, but not D&D. At game time, I grab several Dyson maps, based on where the PCs are heading on the sandbox...

Agreed. I've read a concept before, for disaster prep and emergency response, about the importance of doing visualization. You should...

The poster wrote that there are "Lots RPGs where no prep is one of its features." I'm curious what specific titles with zero prep as one...

Which RPGs would you list?

When I do zero prep, I lean into the players. "Who are you? What do.you do? What do you desire?" Then as they actually build characters...

Lots RPGs where no prep is one of its features Id say DND 5e is not one of them If the GM sat down and from cold said right " We are...

Sly Flourish has “Lazy GM Prep”, which uses steps to keep prep time efficient. It’s not really a goal of mine to eliminate prep or...

Shasta is still around. Not quite as ubiquitous as it was then. And I still love the grape.