How much do you prepare for a homebrew?

[Silver Moon]

You see doc, it all start so innocently.....and, oh god I need a fix... must... create... another... part... of homebrew....

Kriskrafts is still laughing at the above - well said!

Trouble is now, 24 years later, I can't walk away from it. I know it too well, and it is too easy to drop an adventure in it any time any place. We have always tended to adventure in the low to mid levels, so my players never used it up. There are story lines that are still playing out over 20 years. I have NPCs that have been with me longer than my kids! And sometimes they don't behave any better

Sounds amazingly familiar, don't you think? No wonder you fit in so well with my group, we're on the same wavelength! Please feel free to drop in again whenever you can, we'd love to have you on either side of the DM screen.

 

[Knightfall]

How much do I prepare my homebrew world?

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[baradtgnome]

Kriskrafts is still laughing at the above - well said!

SM is Kriskrafts laughing at you or me (more likely both)? I seem to recall her married to a DM who hands out jpegs of all the treasure items along with the carefully annotated maps with keys and lists of NPCs. did you click over-prepare in the survey?

 

[Silver Moon]

I seem to recall her married to a DM who hands out jpegs of all the treasure items along with the carefully annotated maps with keys and lists of NPCs. did you click over-prepare in the survey?

I actually clicked the category above that, as I do far less prep now that I use to due to the easy availability of internet resources. In hindsight though I guess I should have still clicked over-prepare.

 

[baradtgnome]

I actually clicked the category above that, as I do far less prep now that I use to due to the easy availability of internet resources. In hindsight though I guess I should have still clicked over-prepare.

Just teasing. I also clicked a good amount. Perhaps we are in denial.

"What did you do tonight since you have been home from work?"

"Oh, picked up around the house, fed the kids, did a little excercise, checked e-mail and the boards, worked out an encounter in my head and sent an adventure tease to the gaming group. Nothing new."

 

[Silver Moon]

Just teasing. I also clicked a good amount. Perhaps we are in denial. ."

We are, we are...

"What did you do tonight since you have been home from work?"
"Oh, picked up around the house, fed the kids, did a little excercise, checked e-mail and the boards, worked out an encounter in my head and sent an adventure tease to the gaming group. Nothing new."

My answer is similar, "Took out the trash, fed the sheep, unloaded more sheep feed from the back of Kris's truck, cooked supper for the kids, checked the boards, sent out an email to the gaming group, replied to emails, cooked myself supper, chatted with Kris, downloaded info on Tombstone Arizona for next week's game, and am now watching "24". Yeah, we've both got rather busy lives.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I began with a world map I originally made when I was 13, and just had real vague ideas on the different countries. When I began running DnD in the world (2000), I took a kind of modular approach, designing each locale more in-depth as the PCs got there. Now I'm going back and polishing up what I have.

Generally, I overprepare. WAY overprepare.