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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5050268" data-attributes="member: 957"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/pathfinder-rpg-discussion/265351-pathfinder-bestiary-preview-ii.html#post4937631" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/pathfinder-rpg-discussion/265351-pathfinder-bestiary-preview-ii.html#post4937631</a> emphasis mineI know I LOVE prep time.  So much that it becomes impossible for me to identify what my personal ratio of prep to play really is.  I know I can run decent games purely on the fly.  But I also know that I run better games when I do some prep.  And I also know that I spends hours and hours tinkering with plot and characters and places.  But those hours are spent not as prep that needs to happen so I can play, they are spent as having a blast time.  It has been a very long time since I spent hours building an npc only to have that go down in 5 rounds.  If an npc is intended to go toe to toe with the PCs, then I spend an appropriate amount of time building him.  But that 8th level npc that gets a 10 min write-up for 30 minutes of play time may very well have a boss or buddy who gets a two hour write up and back story for ZERO play time because he never directly steps foot on stage.  That is an extreme case.  To me a very large portion of the fun is not the action itself (which is quite fun) but the context and interactions that drive the events and relationships.  It is like writing a song.  Time at the table is like letting the other players go into these crazy improv solos that fit my music but I never would have thought of myself.</blockquote>

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