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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9453340" data-attributes="member: 20564">1. Prep about the world.&nbsp; Things happening if the players don't interact with them.&nbsp; Blades in the Dark is an outgrowth of PbtA, and they have clocks going for things that will happen if the players don't act.2. Prep other things - as long as you are 100% on board with tossing it or modifying them.&nbsp; If your prep is &quot;what if?&quot; so you can better handle different routes, and better improv what emerges during play, that's great.&nbsp; You just need to be okay that it could be wasted time, invalidated by play.&nbsp; You can't get attached, and need to be willing to kill your darlings.&nbsp; (I do this even in prep-forward games like D&amp;D, calling it Schrodinger's Plots.&nbsp; Nothing is true until it hits the table.)3. Run another game.&nbsp; A game can't be all things to all people.&nbsp; If you accept that not all games will scratch your &quot;I want to prep&quot; itch, then when you really want to prep, find a game that lets you do it.&nbsp; This could be in addition to Ironsworn, another regular game, or maybe something you run when you're down players, or most extreme wrap up Ironsworn if it's not providing you the enjoyment you want - everyone at the table deserves to derive pleasure from their role, it's a shared hobby.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9453340, member: 20564"] 1. Prep about the world. Things happening if the players don't interact with them. Blades in the Dark is an outgrowth of PbtA, and they have clocks going for things that will happen if the players don't act. 2. Prep other things - as long as you are 100% on board with tossing it or modifying them. If your prep is "what if?" so you can better handle different routes, and better improv what emerges during play, that's great. You just need to be okay that it could be wasted time, invalidated by play. You can't get attached, and need to be willing to kill your darlings. (I do this even in prep-forward games like D&D, calling it Schrodinger's Plots. Nothing is true until it hits the table.) 3. Run another game. A game can't be all things to all people. If you accept that not all games will scratch your "I want to prep" itch, then when you really want to prep, find a game that lets you do it. This could be in addition to Ironsworn, another regular game, or maybe something you run when you're down players, or most extreme wrap up Ironsworn if it's not providing you the enjoyment you want - everyone at the table deserves to derive pleasure from their role, it's a shared hobby. [/QUOTE]

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