Published Adventures Prep time?

[meomwt]

But with work, home schooling and 4 yr old twins running around I really need something I can jut grab and start playing.

I think you also need a beer

Perhaps two!

 

[billd91]

I would suggest subscribing to Dungeon Magazine. Plenty of shortish adventures. Relatively little prep-work necessary. Plenty of variety. And they keep coming to your mailbox without you having to head out to the game shop or grocery store (mine carries it) to get them.

 

[Prest0]

My kid, girl actually, likes the dice (they are pretty) and killing things and taking their loot. I use it to make math and reading more fun. But with work, home schooling and 4 yr old twins running around I really need something I can jut grab and start playing.

Maybe you should look at the Savage Worlds system. Their plot point campaigns let you prep 15-30 minutes and start playing. It would probably appeal to your improv style of GMing, anyway.

 

[Wraith-Hunter]

I think you also need a beer

Perhaps two!

You better believe it! They are good kids, but a hand full. Just lots on the plate. Would it be bad if I start drinking at 10 am? Beer is a breakfast food right?

 

[Shadowslayer]

I am wondering how much prep time the WotC adventures need. My 10 year old whom I home school wants to play and I don't have much if any free time. Can I just pick one up and start playing? Any recomendations? Dungeon crawls are fine. I probably prefer more DC than anything else.

I'd start with Scourge of the Howling Horde. It a "delve" formatted 1st level adventure. (Its a fun little Goblin-bash.) Read through it once and play it right out of the box. (assuming you're not changing anything.) Each encounter area gets its own page and stat blocks are right there in the encounter key. All you have to do is draw the room in question on a mat, place the minis, and you're all set.

I also understand that it can be used to lead into the Slaughtergaarde module.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Beer is a breakfast food right?

It's a grain. Grains are breakfast foods.

 

[Oryan77]

If you buy the adventure in pdf format, you can print it off and highlight the portions that are important to you as you read through it the first time. Then you don't have to read it twice.

Or, you can highlight the info in the original book if you have it....but that's evil.

 

[Wik]

If you buy the adventure in pdf format, you can print it off and highlight the portions that are important to you as you read through it the first time. Then you don't have to read it twice.

Or, you can highlight the info in the original book if you have it....but that's evil.

...it is?

Damn, I have douse myself in holy water again.

*sigh*

 

[Oryan77]

...it is?

Damn, I have douse myself in holy water again.

*sigh*

The way I see it, 1000 years from now, when the elder brain humans from United Earth escavate the land around my burial site and discover my body buried with all of my D&D books...they may want to play this ancient game themselves. It'll be annoying to them if they want to highlight their own portions of my books but can't because I littered them with sissy pink highlights.