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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 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...

i feel like we’re doing the idea of prep a disservice by arguing extremes. “Zero prep” vs “multiple hours writing up encounters”. Maybe...

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

I think your definition of prep is a lot wider than most folks', but unless @M.T. Black wants to give us a definition, it's gonna...

I'd go so far to say that it's impossible to do zero prep. Every bit of genre fiction you encounter is prep for your next game. Even the...

I will say that, in my experience, most players tend to value the experience more if they think that it's been prepped beforehand, if...

It's kind of my default setup. Moment-to-moment, it's mostly just reacting to the players' actions. I'll usually have some sense of a...

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...

Why do you guys keep posting this nonsense? Pathfinder outsold 4e multiple times. That, and PF1e was the most-played ttrpg on Roll20 for...

Will Daggerheart beat D&D? I don't think so. Even with CR audience. Kesley's got a much smaller audience than CR and Shadowdark seems to...