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I admit I both lean into the latter and very rarely use pre-published adventures and modules (I tend to find them constraining).

For myself, it's probably 2 to 3 hours prep time per 4 hour gaming time. That's reading, taking notes, making changes, looking up stat...

It varies wildly depending on the genre and kind of campaign. Probably the most consistent is notes about current events in the part of...

I’m starting my current 100-book challenge with Children of the Atom by Wilmar Shiras. This is a 1953 fixup novel collecting a series of...

One of my favorite books in my younger days. Last time I reread it, I noticed quite how much her personal religious assumptions colored...

This isn't true. You can have unified design, and also have modular design. Like...modularity can be actually significantly enhanced by...

We did that back in the Very Dim Times because of the lack of D20's with separate numbers for 11-20, as you reference in the part I...

I feel like it must be: -- d6: 1-3: roll 1d8 for result. 4-6: roll 1d8+8 for result. ...but it'd be nice if that was explained. Given...

I always assume the same, but then I remember people paid over $100 for the first Shadowdark Kickstarter only to bounce off the game for...

I got a three-star review on DriveThruRPG when I put 50% of the pages -- the actual content pages, not the cover and legal text -- into...

No expansion needed. We ALL know what I meant.😂

Hr. This is difficult to answer. I have, for a long time now, been using a lot of published adventure materials. This massively...

They have it, I might swing by and grab it. Thanks.

Technically, but I'll maintain my own headcanon on that one. :) There's nothing in XCOM 2 that is really contradictory to the loss...

@payn just reminded me that I hadn't counted work done on basic campaign support for my VTT of choice (Maptool), which probably adds...