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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7927890" data-attributes="member: 6785785">This sounds similar to my approach, overall, although it seems you go into more depth. I try to keep things short and bulleted so it's all on one page and easy to reference. I've found that printing up stat blocks from D&D Beyond can be a bit easier than handwriting out stats for monsters, or for having to flip through the Monster Manual over and over from one monster to the next. I generally cut and paste stat blocks and shrink them a bit so I can fit as many on one page as possible, and then I place these on a clipboard under my one page of notes. I use two clipboards in play, so one will have my notes and some monster stats, and the other will have additional monster stats and maybe a map on the rare occasion I need one before play. Two clipboards cuts down on the page flipping during play.If a session is going to call for a lot of potential interaction, then I'll also make a list of names with maybe one or two details and space to write a bit more. So something like "Jarek, Aasimar, handsome and radiant-" and then decide who he may be as needed. Obviously, this is more for casual encounters such as innkeepers or guards or what have you, rather than NPCs who have a specific place in the fiction. Most of my prep is that germination period you reference.....where I'm just ruminating about the game and where it may go next. I don't really know how much time is spent on this in a given week. But it's not something I think of as work, or hard, it's part of my enjoyment of being a GM. I think this is my most productive prep, honestly, and the rest is just getting some of these ideas down on a page and organized a bit so I can reference them in play. Would you describe any of what you did as "hard"? It sounds a bit time consuming, perhaps, but not difficult in and of itself. And do you feel the need to make things easier?</blockquote>

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