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<blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 7721055" data-attributes="member: 15582">Just dropping this in. There is also the third version of prep: The Sandbox version. Some claim this version is great because it's just as much a surprise to the GM as well as the players as to what happens.The stereotype version of this is approach is the old D&amp;D joke. &quot;I am,&quot; *rolls dice,* &quot;perplexed to see you.&quot; i.e., the GM only makes the rolls as the encounter comes up, flipping through pages and looking up charts.Some DMs play it smarter by getting the PCs to commit to their next destination at the end of their current session. This way the GM makes all the rolls &quot;off stage&quot; so to speak and avoids wasting play time flipping through the book for the &quot;NPC inn keeper names, Slavic&quot; table. Or for some GMs, this style avoids writer's block, letting them jazz on stitching the random elements into an adventure rather than trying to come up with concept and then fill in the holes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Von Ether, post: 7721055, member: 15582"] Just dropping this in. There is also the third version of prep: The Sandbox version. Some claim this version is great because it's just as much a surprise to the GM as well as the players as to what happens. The stereotype version of this is approach is the old D&D joke. "I am," *rolls dice,* "perplexed to see you." i.e., the GM only makes the rolls as the encounter comes up, flipping through pages and looking up charts. Some DMs play it smarter by getting the PCs to commit to their [I]next [/I]destination at the end of their [I]current [/I]session. This way the GM makes all the rolls "off stage" so to speak and avoids wasting play time flipping through the book for the "NPC inn keeper names, Slavic" table. Or for some GMs, this style avoids writer's block, letting them jazz on stitching the random elements into an adventure rather than trying to come up with concept and then fill in the holes. [/QUOTE]

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