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I understand "independent of the player". That's why I call the RPGing "GM-driven" or "GM-centred". I assert that, if the trigger for...

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 know it looks like I'm lying in bed, watching Netflix, but this is actually a crucial part of the writing process."

Exactly. The default right now is "prep is necessary" or at least "only the best GMs can improv!" That's bunk. We, as experienced GMs...

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...

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...

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...

My prep to start a campaign is a couple of hours to write up enough of the city that I can ask the players to fill in some blanks, then...

I mean, you really don't if you're seasoned at improv and at running the game. All the crud I wrote in the post quoted below was off the...

That will depend more than a little on your players, and how much time you're willing to devote at the start of your first session...

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...

Yeah, there's a distinction to make between absolutely zero prep, as in pure improv, and minimal prep. Then there's also the question of...

If you're just starting a thing, you probably need to prep some starting situation, whatever "starting situation" means for what you're...

Actually, sometimes there isn't a fight. And sometimes in my couple of lines of prep I have expected adversaries--how many of X, and and...

In the D&D 5e/Tales of the Valiant games I'm running, mostly the PCs end up in situation, and I react to how they handle them. I run...