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I think I agree that if the PCs are staying where they are for a while, it's easier to run with less prep than if they are persistently...

Thank you for the responses - they've been most helpful. Someone asked for a definition of "prep." To my mind, it is dedicated time...

Hymnic meter is a trap in the English language for hack poets, yes (lyricists arguably have an excuse).

Contains one thing: Firefly.

I'd go as far as to say that in a lot of settings/genres, the players should know quite a bit about it (though as one can assume from my...

Agreed. The most important point is that a DM who wants to try winging it shouldn’t feel some kind of imperative to spend multiple...

Probably at least as good if people don't feel somehow inferior if it doesn't work for them. Probably best to encourage people to try...

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...