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<blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 972412" data-attributes="member: 893">Well story arc ideas usually come to me when I can't sleep, I've had insomnia most of my life so tossing and turning in bed half the night has given me a rather active imagination...&nbsp; Thus I have no idea how long it takes me to come up with story ideas.&nbsp; I keep a notepad on my bedside table to write down anything that comes to me in the middle of the night.&nbsp; Translation the next morning can get interesting sometimes as I try and decyper exactly what my sleep deprived brain wrote down at 3:30 AM.&nbsp; After that I compile stuff into Monsters and NPC's between 1 and 2 hours.&nbsp; As I come up with new monster ideas I write them down on a stock NPC/monster sheet and put them into a big 3&quot; binder devided by challange rateing and organized alphabetically.&nbsp; It has stock guards, barkeeps, dockworkers, orcish warriors, kobold wizards, ect.&nbsp; I just mix and match however it suits the adventure.Encouters, see above.Maps/supporting art:&nbsp; Well I run in a Greyhawk based world, mainly because I suck at artwork so I have a collection of different scraps of paper and maps that I pull out as I need them.Experiance/awards:&nbsp; well the awards are writen into the encounters.&nbsp; I probably spend more time on this than most, mainly because I have a nasty tendancy to give out too much.&nbsp; XP I usually award by the book.&nbsp; It's pretty streight forward as the group I DM with is quite small.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imperialus, post: 972412, member: 893"] Well story arc ideas usually come to me when I can't sleep, I've had insomnia most of my life so tossing and turning in bed half the night has given me a rather active imagination... Thus I have no idea how long it takes me to come up with story ideas. I keep a notepad on my bedside table to write down anything that comes to me in the middle of the night. Translation the next morning can get interesting sometimes as I try and decyper exactly what my sleep deprived brain wrote down at 3:30 AM. After that I compile stuff into Monsters and NPC's between 1 and 2 hours. As I come up with new monster ideas I write them down on a stock NPC/monster sheet and put them into a big 3" binder devided by challange rateing and organized alphabetically. It has stock guards, barkeeps, dockworkers, orcish warriors, kobold wizards, ect. I just mix and match however it suits the adventure. Encouters, see above. Maps/supporting art: Well I run in a Greyhawk based world, mainly because I suck at artwork so I have a collection of different scraps of paper and maps that I pull out as I need them. Experiance/awards: well the awards are writen into the encounters. I probably spend more time on this than most, mainly because I have a nasty tendancy to give out too much. XP I usually award by the book. It's pretty streight forward as the group I DM with is quite small. [/QUOTE]

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