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Exactly. One big reason to switch the typically proactive and reactive roles between the referee and the players. If the PCs are...

Absolutely--and I think that higher-level play also strongly discourages extensive committed GM prep, because there is so much the PCs...

Yeah, I've run 2 1-20 5e campaigns in my setting. I have another that's like 40 sessions in, and I started a fourth (this one in Tales...

I've dabbled a few times over the years to create a setting, but the game usually petered out before anything substantial came of it...

No, I don't think of it as prep. I have ideas for our game all the time, but they aren't fully realized and I don't think of prepping...

I'm writing my own setting, and the longer the PCs stay somewhere, the deeper that somewhere gets. I'm happy to have PCs go back to a...

The fact you think a campaign that says in a place is harder to prep than one that moves around, and my experience is that it works the...

I don't have the time to read all of these posts, but I just want you all to know, I passionately disagree with every one of you.

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...