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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread 3PP Release The Night of the Knife: A Campaign Quartet Adventure with
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos replied to the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib?.Wow!!! That's pretty wild. 40K-75k words is 160-300 pages of notes according to standard words per page! Your entire campaign is ~1600...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
Sure seems like you are. I went to check. My shortest full adventure of the current campaign was "Plague of Lies". Notes for it are...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
75k words written to be read by people other than the author is a serious task. 75k words worth of disparate notes not intended for...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to Jeremy E Grenemyer's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
I feel seen. You learn as a DM that no plot outline survives contact with a group of players. 😉
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to loverdrive's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
I don't plan much (and when I do, rarely stick to it), but I do enjoy preparing for games: doing research, designing monsters, figuring...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to jdrakeh's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
Somewhere in between. I always go into a game session with a rough outline of what I think will probably go down, but I also have a lot...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to zarionofarabel's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
How would having it written down beforehand change anything though? Isn't it just as easy to change your preplanned stuff to "help" the...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to dbm's post in the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib? with Like.
I prep outlines and then (like 90%+ of GMs) adapt to the players at the table. I probably prep-to-play a ratio between 50% and 100%, so...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos replied to the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib?.I've recently subscribed to Lao Tzu's newsletter, but Helmuth von Moltke the Elder had his hand on my shoulder in those days. I mean...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread IRON DM 2025 Tournament Thread with Like.
Jack Kirby made me do it. I felt myself slipping into Appendix N Jam mode -- it was a really influential event on me this summer -- and...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos replied to the thread Which are you, The plan everything out GM, or the Ad lib?.I haven't run a game in a very long time, but when I did, I'd have to classify myself as a fairly hard-core/attention to detail world...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos replied to the thread The 2025 Pumpkin Spice RPG Contest - Results are In.I'm going to preface this by saying that I am not a fussy eater. I can't think of a 'regional cuisine' I don't enjoy. Heavy on the veg...
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to Pale Violet Light's post in the thread Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!] with
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UUlorian - Agent of Chaos reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!] with Like.
your post reminded me of this, I read it the other day...