D&D General DMs: Do you review notes right before playing?

[Orius]

Wat are these NOTES you speak of?

Notes?

My campaign notes I keep in a folder, and I also have a binder where I keep my campaign material.

My sister though....

She's got folders for every player at the table for character sheets and notes, plus handouts from me. That's 1 folder each for 6 players, plus the folder for my stuff when I was playing in the 5e game my niece was running. Another folder with maps and graph paper. Several spiral bound tablets, one of which they use to write down their treasure hauls and another with campaign notes. A few spiral pocket notebooks, one of which she's using as her wizard's spellbook. Two or three composition notebooks which I don't even know what she's doing with. All this because she thinks her daughters misplaced some treasure notes for the party, and it really doesn't help that I made it perfectly clear that I don't care if they lose track of their treasure. She has more notes than I do.

She really really likes her loot.

 

[Guest 7034872]

I review before every session, yes. It's an awfully big place I've thrown them into and their options at each location are, err...robust. I need these review times in order to keep up.

 

[CleverNickName]

If I have notes, I will review them. So I voted "Yes, always."

 

[ThrorII]

Our group functions between sessions on MeWe.

I write a synopsis after every game and post it for everyone to see.

Currently, I am running Wild West Cinema for our group. Besides the synopsis, I create a 1 page "Old West Newspaper" before each session to hand out at the session. It has 'articles' about key events from last session, plot hooks for the players, and 'ads' from local businesses they might be interested in.

 

[Yora]

Wat are these NOTES you speak of?

I never really learned how to use notes. I never took notes in school and in my many years at university I mostly only took a few notes because everyone else was doing it, but never quite figured out what was worth noting down.

My GM notes consist almost entirely of NPC stats and prepared treasure stashes. That's really it mostly.The game world and what's going on all exist entirely in my head.

 

[Grogg of the North]

I voted sometimes. Because sometimes I'm still writing my notes right before the session starts!

 

[Art Waring]

I spend about ten minutes to prep one session and writing notes, I typically do this right at the end of the current session while my memory is fresh and the details are there, continuing the story typically with three options for the players to choose. I did all the prep work years ago so I don't have to now, thus the ten minutes of prep per week.