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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3065155" data-attributes="member: 18280">I divide my prep time between long-range planning and short-range building.Long-range planning encompases drawing maps; determing what's going on in the world (including who is doing what, and what's happening behind the scenes -- everything from the Innkeeper's wife being pregnant to the King's eldest son dying in a jousting tourney); deciding what the major themes and area properties will be like in an adventure location, deciding what monsters dwell in a given area in broad strokes (area overview maps for dungeons & cave systems allow you to plan farther ahead when designing level 1); and writing up the "fluff" and major overviews of towns, NPCs, or whatever.  Basically, all the "dreaming" stuff.Short-range building is writing room and event descriptions, making dialogue notes, and writing stat blocks.All of that stuff is 100% enjoyable to me except writing stat blocks.  Stat blocks are work.  So, to reduce the amount of stat block work I do, every time I make a stat block I include it in one of several Word files.  Thereafter, I can cut & paste if I need to, or I can reuse the stat block for a mook I wasn't expecting to need statted.  Like waste management, stat blocking comes down to the 3 R's:  Recycle, Reduce, Reuse.  You should never have to figure out how to apply a template to a base creature more than once.  Unless, of course, it is a highly variable template and you want to.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I would still say that, overall, I enjoy the stat block work as well.  Just not 100% of the time.RC</blockquote>

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