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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5904596" data-attributes="member: 18701">Is there anyone out there like me that spends countless hours preparing content for their game? I spend my free time doing some sort of preparation work for my game. It is kind of embarrassing how much work I do (have done). Now that I use Maptool, my prep work has doubled.I'm also an organization freak. I'm not comfortable unless all of my files and notes are in order for "easy access". I create data on my Excel campaign file that is intended to help run my games more smoothly or just help me prepare content in general. I'm a graphics guy, so I do a lot of my own artwork to use with Maptool. I stat up all of my NPCs that may be used in combat. Even monsters from the Monster Manuals get written up on my stat sheet. This helps me learn what they can do and I can write down how the abilities work in a way that will be easier for me to reference during the game.I recently made my own Player's Handbook for my campaign. I took all of the racial information from the 30+ races I allow players to choose and combined it in my own pdf file. It includes photoshopped images I created of the races that had "lame" artwork before. I made affiliation rules for factions that I use and took a bunch of PrC content from Dragon Magazines and compiled it into the pdf. I created a massive equipment list that includes all items from every WotC 3.5 book so the players can reference gear that they want to buy more easily.I've compiled background music and made playlists for everything. I also made my own character sheets and other various gaming sheets. I put together random charts with macros in my Excel file. I manage character wealth in Excel to make sure the PCs are not underpowered.Then there is all of the time I spend reading published adventures I want to run and then preparing them for the game. I also like to write my own content that will have a direct impact on individual PCs.This was all done over the course of 10 years. But I spend almost every day doing some kind of prep work. I'm sure I spend more time prepping than playing, but it's relaxing and fun for me. Plus I tell myself that when my kids are old enough to play D&D, I won't have to do much prepping for those games. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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