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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 7927879" data-attributes="member: 7016699">I can't say exactly how [USER=57914]@GameOgre[/USER] spent their prep time, but I can tell what I do during mine. It's not usually four hours, but it's usually more than two. I've never broken down how long anything takes, but things include:Working out the likely results of what the characters seem likely to do, given where they are in whatever story thread they're running down. If there are facts that need to emerge, now is when I like to figure out what those facts are. If there are people they're likely to meet, now is when I like to figure those out, too. This is also when I figure out things that are likely to happen around the characters. In my every-other-Saturday campaign, this meant working out who the various members of the cabal of diabolists were in the city, and why they were working in the service of that archdevil; it meant working out what the characters were likely to find based on likely paths/choices; it meant working out what the cabal was likely to to do if they found out the party were looking for them (and if they didn't); it meant writing up index cards for the various devils they were likely to summon (since I'm not DMing at home, I prefer not to tote my Monster Manual around, to save at least a little weight). If there's going to be a treasure hoard, this is when I prefer to generate that (because I have extra homebrew and third-party stuff, I prefer to generate it at home).There's usually some amount of ... germination, or something, where before I sit down to write stuff up (or down), I think about things for a while. That tends to start right after the session.In the session, there was some figuring out what a given person they met knew, and roleplaying out the various interactions, and some fighting, and stuff. There was some ad-libbing, because the players always find some path I didn't think of (which means I don't usually prep in deep detail; the total is usually something like two to four notebook pages).</blockquote>

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