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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...

The whole idea of "no prep" or "zero prep" seems a lot less interesting to me than "low cognitive load". I tried to run a game with...

Is “mental prep” prep? I don’t feel like it is, but I can understand the opposite viewpoint.

I also think "zero-prep" is probably being used in several different ways, and it's probably important to be clear on the distinctions...

Agreed. I've read a concept before, for disaster prep and emergency response, about the importance of doing visualization. You should...

When I do zero prep, I lean into the players. "Who are you? What do.you do? What do you desire?" Then as they actually build characters...

As a positive, I really love how there's almost no darkvision in the game. There's the Vial of Moondrip as a consumable potion, and one...

I dunno…it’s hard to explain how not to do something. I don’t quite “zero-prep”; I usually think of an encounter scene or two on the...

Yeah, there’s a page-and-half about how to deal with NPCs. So to say it’s missing or an oversight is just factually wrong. People might...

@prabe

ok, I will say I love when Matt corrects Travis on how helping works in Ep 3. That is... Travis (and then the other players) started...

"I did badly enough at singing that made an awful caterwauling somewhere near where a guard was and now he's come to investigate? I...

Yeah, absolutely. I’m just giving extra options.