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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7588167" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I didn't suggest any <em>general</em> root. It made a suggestion about a <em>particular</em> issue in a particular context. [MENTION=23935]Nagol[/MENTION] provided more information in response (fleshing out the meaning of "slowly") which corrected my misapprehension.</p><p></p><p>I would, and did, say that - like [MENTION=463]S'mon[/MENTION] - I don't have disappointing sessions. Some posters appeared to be sceptical of this.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what you have in mind by "really cool stuff"; and I'm not sure what your threshold is for <em>disappointment</em>. Just having a look through my 4e prep folder on my computer, there are 60-odd files. There seem to be about 4 that (as best I recall) I never got to use: a fey forest encounter, a haunted fey swamp encounter, an aboleth encounter and an epic-tier shadowdark encounter. Each of these might be an hour or more of work statting up creatures. (I don't think I have any unused maps.) The shadowdark encounter could potentially be stepped up to 30th level and so be mechanically usable given the current state of the campaign, but I'd be surprised if the action were ever to return to the shadowdark.</p><p></p><p>These could have been fun, i'm sure; but the stuff that <em>actually</em> happened was fun too. The sessions weren't disappointing because I didn't get to use this stuff, and (eg) <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?355600-Session-report-(Apect-of)-Vecna-defeated-demon-bargained-with" target="_blank">the feywild action that eventually did happen</a> was good stuff.</p><p></p><p>I think my approach to <em>reuseability</em> might be a bit different from [MENTION=463]S'mon[/MENTION]'s, but it probably falls into the same general ball-park. In my case, it's prep of elements (creatures, NPCs, starship, etc) and situation (eg a haunted grove in the feywild) but not plot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7588167, member: 42582"] I didn't suggest any [I]general[/I] root. It made a suggestion about a [I]particular[/I] issue in a particular context. [MENTION=23935]Nagol[/MENTION] provided more information in response (fleshing out the meaning of "slowly") which corrected my misapprehension. I would, and did, say that - like [MENTION=463]S'mon[/MENTION] - I don't have disappointing sessions. Some posters appeared to be sceptical of this. I'm not sure what you have in mind by "really cool stuff"; and I'm not sure what your threshold is for [I]disappointment[/I]. Just having a look through my 4e prep folder on my computer, there are 60-odd files. There seem to be about 4 that (as best I recall) I never got to use: a fey forest encounter, a haunted fey swamp encounter, an aboleth encounter and an epic-tier shadowdark encounter. Each of these might be an hour or more of work statting up creatures. (I don't think I have any unused maps.) The shadowdark encounter could potentially be stepped up to 30th level and so be mechanically usable given the current state of the campaign, but I'd be surprised if the action were ever to return to the shadowdark. These could have been fun, i'm sure; but the stuff that [I]actually[/I] happened was fun too. The sessions weren't disappointing because I didn't get to use this stuff, and (eg) [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?355600-Session-report-(Apect-of)-Vecna-defeated-demon-bargained-with]the feywild action that eventually did happen[/url] was good stuff. I think my approach to [I]reuseability[/I] might be a bit different from [MENTION=463]S'mon[/MENTION]'s, but it probably falls into the same general ball-park. In my case, it's prep of elements (creatures, NPCs, starship, etc) and situation (eg a haunted grove in the feywild) but not plot. [/QUOTE]
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