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<blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 9680065" data-attributes="member: 6685541">Traditionally, prep has been a big part of play for me. In the past I would often prep whole campaign worlds, or come up with systems to randomly generate adventures or settings or encounters, even knowing it would probably not be used. When I ran campaigns, I actively and purposefully over-prepped because I found it fun. For example, in a campaign that had a lot of saints as part of its religion, I created an entire Random Saint Generator that would create a saint's name, what they were the patron of, and in-game benefits for praying to that saint. It never got used, but it was a lot of fun to make!Since having a kid, though, my creative time has become limited, and I'm finding it more difficult to enjoy prep time. I wrote in my post-mortem for a one-shot I recently ran about finding the prep time frustrating, even though I did have fun creating the adventure. I think that exposure to no-prep games like Ironsworn have also opened my eyes to other ways to run games.I'm sure when my son is in school and I have more time on my hands I'll find myself enjoying prep again. But for now it's a detriment to my play, not a part of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BookTenTiger, post: 9680065, member: 6685541"] Traditionally, prep has been a big part of play for me. In the past I would often prep whole campaign worlds, or come up with systems to randomly generate adventures or settings or encounters, even knowing it would probably not be used. When I ran campaigns, I actively and purposefully over-prepped because I found it fun. For example, in a campaign that had a lot of saints as part of its religion, I created an entire Random Saint Generator that would create a saint's name, what they were the patron of, and in-game benefits for praying to that saint. It never got used, but it was a lot of fun to make! Since having a kid, though, my creative time has become limited, and I'm finding it more difficult to enjoy prep time. I wrote in my post-mortem for a one-shot I recently ran about finding the prep time frustrating, even though I did have fun creating the adventure. I think that exposure to no-prep games like Ironsworn have also opened my eyes to other ways to run games. I'm sure when my son is in school and I have more time on my hands I'll find myself enjoying prep again. But for now it's a detriment to my play, not a part of it. [/QUOTE]

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