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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...

Nothing does. Better to point out that it can, and help people get over the worry and actually try it.

I was writing in the context of a zero prep game. You all sit down, blank slate. You talk for a few minutes about genre and tone and...

You can do all of that at the table. If each player creates one element of a starting location and situation when they create their...

This is not true. The elves of Norse myth and the fair folk of the celts are decidedly alien in mindset and generally pretty dangerous...

Well, I have One-Shot Wonders, so I wouldn't need to do it for 5E. But I think it's doable, although my Shadowdark games tend to be more...

Out of curiosity, would you do zero prep D&D if you were in a similar situation? Or is there a reason that you feel confident doing it...

That poor mimic was terrified.

That makes me wonder when the clock starts and stops on prep? I mean that if you do prep things as part of the session of play, is it...

The transition of grimy black.& white illustration to airbrushed fantasy, and then the transition to dungeon punk, were jarring to folks...

As I mentioned in the other thread, something like a 50 Fathoms plot point frame is what leaps immediately to mind. Something like that...

Shrine on the Mosswater I’m hesitant to post this first version of today’s map – it is one of my first attempts to add watercolours to...

I think one of the kinds of products we are likely to see a lot of from community 3PPs are campaign frames (and many of those will...

Is “mental prep” prep? I don’t feel like it is, but I can understand the opposite viewpoint.

Scum and Villainy is an explicitly zero prep game, if I recall correctly. As is Ironsword and Starforged (though those are built...