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So, sitting at work today suffering from a cold, I was pondering something. If you could play a campaign that you've never done before...

I suppose it changes session to session, but I only game on VTT now and I like to make it look as visually appealing as possible. I...

It really does vary. I found when running PF1 on VTT (Roll20) that prep took much longer than for face to face games. Doing up maps and...

Assuming we're not counting things like thinking about the plot (which just happens ad hoc whenever I have idle cycles in the ol' gray...

I'd say probably an average of 1:1 time prepping vs playing. Probably a bit more, because I also frontload a lot of prep at the...

I tend to do a lot of front-loading in my games… building the setting, creating NPCs, scenarios, and adversaries, so most of the prep...

D&D, which I've been playing for decades is about 15 minutes of prep per hour of play. But now I'm running FrontierSpace for the first...

I think typically between 1 and 2 hours of prep time per hour at the table. The worst ratio I ever had was probably 5 hours of prep...

I would say 50:50 ratio. Three hours prep for a three hour session. Reading scenarios, writing up events, landing pages, maps, VTT...

I probably spend more prep time than the average GM I suspect. When im running an AP, I spend a good deal of time looking at what the...

Seems like we could (and may) argue until the end of time about “What is role playing?” But are there people who simply do not care if...

Any forged in the dark game. Combat isn’t its own “thing,” but you can escalate to violence (or have violence as a consequence of your...

That's fair, but if I'm talking about whether I do or do not do something, I'm only going to talk about the games that I play. And like...

I agree. I keep this comic on hand and periodically post here. Stumbling on this comic was something of a reflection point for me. I...

Broadly speaking, it isn't. That was the point. We play games to have characters go on some kind of adventure, and thus build mechanics...