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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ivocaliban" data-source="post: 1554766" data-attributes="member: 17596">Without a doubt my best DMing moments come when I'm ill-prepared, yet heavily immersed in and excited by the storyline. I've had games where I make pages of notes and spend days writing down stats to have on hand for just the right moment...and when the time comes I'm far too concerned with my notes to really focus on the action at hand. I was always a bit paranoid when the time came to do this sort of thing, but I found that it freed me from the constraints of black and white and left me with a great many colours to work with when painting a scene or deciding what was around the next corner. Every time I've done this, though, my players have made comments on how great the session was...and that never seems to happen when I spend a great deal of time on it. The imagination is released from the bonds of the written word during these times. So far I've been lucky enough not to have had a bad experience with "Off the Cuff" DMing, so I'm likely to keep employing this style of play. It's for this reason that I find playing in well-established worlds more difficult than my own, but even that doesn't bother me as much as it once did. My Greyhawk is certainly not like the original. It's distinctly my own and might very well confuse anyone intimately familiar with the Flanaess's real history.In the end though, I tend to take as many (or as few) notes while gaming as I do between sessions. Having an idea in the raw form I shape it far better in the thick of things than I can beforehand. This may stem from the fact that once I've written something down it's hard for me to not refer to it time and time again. If I have nothing to refer to...I simply fill in the blanks as I go. Usually, to everyone's mutual delight.</blockquote>

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