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Yes. What I was saying is that literally doesn't work at/for all tables. I'm aware how it does work--I've been at tables where it did. I...

My prep to start a campaign is a couple of hours to write up enough of the city that I can ask the players to fill in some blanks, then...

That will depend more than a little on your players, and how much time you're willing to devote at the start of your first session...

Yeah, there's a distinction to make between absolutely zero prep, as in pure improv, and minimal prep. Then there's also the question of...

If you're just starting a thing, you probably need to prep some starting situation, whatever "starting situation" means for what you're...

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...

As best-loved? Probably. As better ... well, if you've ever had the (mis)fortune to slog through a book of all her poems, you know her...

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...

Back when I was working recording audiobooks, we recorded a book about Emily Dickinson that described her as "America's best and...

Well yeah, I already know I'm right. We're here to talk about how you're wrong.

We give ourselves infinite benefit of the doubt while giving almost exactly none to people who disagree with us. There's a long list of...

Nothing to do with your post, except the word. I was just coming here from elsewhere to post something about the staunch desire of many...

Finished Court of Fives, the first of Kate Elliott's YA fantasy series set around playing a complicated game which feels rather like...

Eggplant is the veggie that defines the line between those I like and those I don’t.