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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AZRogue" data-source="post: 4020799" data-attributes="member: 3963">If worldbuilding is your cup of tea, more power to you. Build away. That is the moment when you are probably at your most creative. My best friend is like that (was like that?) and will spend months detailing a campaign area only for us to go through it in two weeks and not see any of it ... and move on to the next area. But it's what he likes to do, so that's what he does. He's never forced us to visit every shrine to whomever, because we won't do it, but he wants to know it exists out there somewhere. I think it's great.I'm at the other end, though, as a DM. My time is limited, usually, and I hate prepping too far in advance because I would hate it myself if the players don't see everything that I've worked hard on. So I only design what I know will directly impact the players in the next session or two, and no more. My entire campaign world is two pages long and mostly vague descriptions that I know will mean something to me and give me room to work. I like when small maps and lairs are included in the books I buy because I can honestly use them. I won't use it as is---I may put an witch in that owlbear lair---but it still saved me time.Anything that teaches a new DM to focus on creating solid encounters is a good move in my opinion. A new DM learns how to do that, and how to adjucate his players' actions, and he can decide for himself what aspect of DMing he enjoys most later on and do more of it. Some will enjoy focusing on the encounters, some on their story arcs, and some on their world building.</blockquote>

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