Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 6614899" data-attributes="member: 9327">It's Saturday night, everyone wants to game, but I have absolutely nothing prepared. I bring a Monster Manual and whatever adventure I'm running. It starts out okay, I'll go through a section of the adventure related to where they are, and I'll see in bold letters six skeletons. I realize, suddenly, that I am too lazy to pull the MM out of my backpack. So, I close the adventure book to make room for a blank sheet of paper, on which I write the number 10 six times, and start X'ing them out as combat progresses. When the fight is over, I decide I'm too lazy to pull the adventure book back out again. The rest of the session is a &quot;side adventure,&quot; which is a code word in my circle of DM's for &quot;DM'ing with nothing but a scratch sheet of hit-points because I'm just not feeling it right now.&quot;My players don't notice, usually, and my feelings of fraud-hood are somewhat alleviated by the praise they give me for a job well done at the end of the night. Our retrospective for our Temple of Elemental Evil year-long campaign went thusly: they mostly hated the slog, except for some parts that they absolutely loved, all of which were not a part of the adventure and were made up whole-cloth on the spot.Do you ever do this? If so, do your players know and how do they receive it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Halivar, post: 6614899, member: 9327"] It's Saturday night, everyone wants to game, but I have absolutely [I]nothing[/I] prepared. I bring a Monster Manual and whatever adventure I'm running. It starts out okay, I'll go through a section of the adventure related to where they are, and I'll see in bold letters [B]six skeletons.[/B] I realize, suddenly, that I am too lazy to pull the MM out of my backpack. So, I close the adventure book to make room for a blank sheet of paper, on which I write the number 10 six times, and start X'ing them out as combat progresses. When the fight is over, I decide I'm too lazy to pull the adventure book back out again. The rest of the session is a "side adventure," which is a code word in my circle of DM's for "DM'ing with nothing but a scratch sheet of hit-points because I'm just not feeling it right now." My players don't notice, usually, and my feelings of fraud-hood are somewhat alleviated by the praise they give me for a job well done at the end of the night. Our retrospective for our Temple of Elemental Evil year-long campaign went thusly: they mostly hated the slog, except for some parts that they absolutely loved, all of which were not a part of the adventure and were made up whole-cloth on the spot. Do you ever do this? If so, do your players know and how do they receive it? [/QUOTE]

Verification