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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Breaking Star Games" data-source="post: 9536381" data-attributes="member: 7042067">Maybe its just from all the TV shows I loved in the 90s and early 2000s, but there is definitely a special place in my heart for episodic with those season(s)-long stories. My profile pic gives a hint but Cowboy Bebop and Firefly are the stellar examples for me. It really does fit nicely with TTRPGs where you can't exactly binge multiple sessions easily - scheduling 3 hours a week is already tough! And you can more easily run the game when a player is absent without throwing out important plot points set up from last session. As an aside, how do you guys deal with it? Do you prep backup just in case? Or always have stuff for all players and just pivot the focus on what prep you use?So having some mission that can be the main objective while we have other storylines and character development happening during is my favorite. I say all this but am champing at the bit to run Urban Shadows 2e and get more experience on more player driven and continuous storylines. US2e gets past the prep issue cleanly by just not prepping much at all and the GM just have a nice suite of tools for improvising.</blockquote>