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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9665475" data-attributes="member: 18">The one thing that slightly confounded me was the Session Zero advice. That advice is perhaps... overcomplicated and over prescriptive (like, timing stuff down to the minute, different break lengths lol, come on who lives like that? This is more like a CPD* course than session zero! Though some DMs could definitely benefit from CPD now I think about it...), and not going to work for a lot of groups but even there, it has some really good &quot;makes you think&quot; kind of points, which like, are definitely worth considering even if you don't go with them! (Also they say they basically took it wholesale from a section of another RPG in the acknowledgements/influences section, which makes sense.)One other thing I loved though was, after the Full Example Of Play section, they asked several questions about how you'd have run the scenes, and they're genuinely good questions, because I know I'd have run it differently and the questions help to make you think about why/how you would have - but they also don't undermine what you'd have done nor the original DM, instead they talk - correctly - about how different DMs have different styles.* = Continuing Personal Development = i.e. continuing to learn once you already have a job.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9665475, member: 18"] The one thing that slightly confounded me was the Session Zero advice. That advice is perhaps... overcomplicated and over prescriptive (like, timing stuff down to the minute, different break lengths lol, come on who lives like that? This is more like a CPD* course than session zero! Though some DMs could definitely benefit from CPD now I think about it...), and not going to work for a lot of groups but even there, it has some really good "makes you think" kind of points, which like, are definitely worth considering even if you don't go with them! (Also they say they basically took it wholesale from a section of another RPG in the acknowledgements/influences section, which makes sense.) One other thing I loved though was, after the Full Example Of Play section, they asked several questions about how you'd have run the scenes, and they're genuinely good questions, because I know I'd have run it differently and the questions help to make you think about why/how you would have - but they also don't undermine what you'd have done nor the original DM, instead they talk - correctly - about how different DMs have different styles. * = Continuing Personal Development = i.e. continuing to learn once you already have a job. [/QUOTE]

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