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<blockquote data-quote="zarionofarabel" data-source="post: 8222720" data-attributes="member: 7026405">I keep wondering how a player could possibly know if a DM used prepared notes or total improv. I mean, I guess if the DM showed the players their notes at the end of each session to prove that all the things the PCs had encountered were prepared ahead of time. Unless that happens I can't see how players would know if it's all prepared or improv.I know in my own experience as the forever DM who just makes it up on the fly, my players have told me that my games are some of the best they have ever participated in, mostly because of how engaging I make the world. I tried one time a long long time ago to do the prepared setting thing, it turned out so bad that my players still laugh about how bad that game was. They even threw stuff at me until I promised never to do that again.I can see how people like to put forth their own preferences as somehow objectively better than other methods, but this simply cannot be true. Personal preferences are just that, a preference. Improv is not inherently better than prep, and prep is not inherently better than improv, it's all just a matter of personal preference.I also have very serious doubts that a player could tell the difference between a good improv DM and a good prep DM. Unless of course the DM reveals their method.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zarionofarabel, post: 8222720, member: 7026405"] I keep wondering how a player could possibly know if a DM used prepared notes or total improv. I mean, I guess if the DM showed the players their notes at the end of each session to prove that all the things the PCs had encountered were prepared ahead of time. Unless that happens I can't see how players would know if it's all prepared or improv. I know in my own experience as the forever DM who just makes it up on the fly, my players have told me that my games are some of the best they have ever participated in, mostly because of how engaging I make the world. I tried one time a long long time ago to do the prepared setting thing, it turned out so bad that my players still laugh about how bad that game was. They even threw stuff at me until I promised never to do that again. I can see how people like to put forth their own preferences as somehow objectively better than other methods, but this simply cannot be true. Personal preferences are just that, a preference. Improv is not inherently better than prep, and prep is not inherently better than improv, it's all just a matter of personal preference. I also have very serious doubts that a player could tell the difference between a good improv DM and a good prep DM. Unless of course the DM reveals their method. [/QUOTE]

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