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<blockquote data-quote="Longspeak" data-source="post: 9346633" data-attributes="member: 7019284">Listen... I've been doing this for a while now, and I've been through what you're going through. Hell, I'm going through it now.The only time there's too much prep is when you let that prep become a railroad instead of a map. I prep session by session, but only after I've made my outline. I know what I think will happen during a story, and even know my players enough to guess what is likely vs. unlikely, but nearly every session the players do something I won't expect and so each new session I prepare based how things have change. What still works, what might work with some tweaking, what won't work anymore, and what new idea did last session inspire. Then I write out a new opening.But all of that begins by prepping at least the current and next stories. When you prep, you give yourself more ability to think on your feet, a skill every GM needs.So prep. Prepare, so you're prepared to react when your players do something for which you aren't prepared.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Longspeak, post: 9346633, member: 7019284"] Listen... I've been doing this for a while now, and I've been through what you're going through. Hell, I'm going through it now. The only time there's too much prep is when you let that prep become a railroad instead of a map. I prep session by session, but only after I've made my outline. I know what I think will happen during a story, and even know my players enough to guess what is likely vs. unlikely, but nearly every session the players do something I won't expect and so each new session I prepare based how things have change. What still works, what might work with some tweaking, what won't work anymore, and what new idea did last session inspire. Then I write out a new opening. But all of that begins by prepping at least the current and next stories. When you prep, you give yourself more ability to think on your feet, a skill every GM needs. So prep. Prepare, so you're prepared to react when your players do something for which you aren't prepared. [/QUOTE]

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