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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 6238527" data-attributes="member: 87576">I think one of the keys to running 3.5E successfully - which means with minimal DM burnout - is to understand that extensive preparation of stat blocks, in particular, is going to be wasted. Keep it simple and keep it moving.What I also find helpful in terms of the seat-of-the-pants style you describe is having, in the back of your mind at least, the rough outlines of three or so old school location-based adventures that can be easily adapted on the fly when you absolutely need something more substantial to run.One of those for me - and, no doubt, many others - is the Caves of Chaos from B2 Keep on the Borderlands. The basic conceit of a series of caves (or they could be dwarven mines or minotaur tunnels - whatever) inhabited by multiple tribes with a mysterious temple (or arcane oracle or archetypal evil wizard) acting as some sort of locus of loose control is a location for which there are nearly infinite variations on the basic them but which can be dropped in almost anywhere.Almost every campaign I run includes a location like this and it's my "go to" location when I am otherwise scratching for ideas and the players really want to explore and fight.There are other adventures like that - Raiders of Galath's Roost from Dungeon 87 (?) is also like that for me - which are fairly simple in concept, have maps you can easily change on the fly and using the adventure's basic framework you can quickly improvise a decent adventure with next to no preparation.</blockquote>

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