Show your game prep notes
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Here is a copy of what typical prep looks like for me when I run a con game.
Usually, I run multiple connected sessions in an episodic "con campaign". The printed text is what I prepare before the con. The stuff written on that sheet is notes relative to what has gone on so far in the con campaign.
In this case, the other sheet was a complete boss monster design done before the session (informed by how well previous designs worked). The mother of monsters here was a legendary chimera with 5 distinct "parts" that acted on their own initiatives (legendary actions, resistances and reactions were shared).
For the record, this was a phenomenal battle and tons of fun. One day I mean to write up my boss monster rules formally.
Usually, I run multiple connected sessions in an episodic "con campaign". The printed text is what I prepare before the con. The stuff written on that sheet is notes relative to what has gone on so far in the con campaign.
In this case, the other sheet was a complete boss monster design done before the session (informed by how well previous designs worked). The mother of monsters here was a legendary chimera with 5 distinct "parts" that acted on their own initiatives (legendary actions, resistances and reactions were shared).
For the record, this was a phenomenal battle and tons of fun. One day I mean to write up my boss monster rules formally.
John Lloyd1
Rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty
Normally I use a Sly Flourish's 8 steps, but I currently running the free content from the 100 one-shot wonders at the game store. The only notes I'm making are the monster CRs on the adventure.
This is the best format for one-shot adventures I've seen. I've run a few AL adventures, and I need to have prep notes when I use those because they are so wordy.
This is the best format for one-shot adventures I've seen. I've run a few AL adventures, and I need to have prep notes when I use those because they are so wordy.
Thomas Shey
Legend
Do people really want to see what the adventure sheet I do for my 13th Age games looks like? It'd be easy enough to show one, but its probably about 80% stat blocks, if you disregard the separate VTT maps and tokens.
plecostomus
Explorer
Converting my Session Zero notes from a Google Doc to Foundry...
Left - A player-facing slide about the setting. Players would see just the slide and not the surrounding menus.
Right - Character creation rambling, DM-facing because no one is going to read that. It might help me figure out what to say though.
And my work today on converting the notes for the first dungeon:
Left - A player-facing slide about the setting. Players would see just the slide and not the surrounding menus.
Right - Character creation rambling, DM-facing because no one is going to read that. It might help me figure out what to say though.
And my work today on converting the notes for the first dungeon:
el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
One thing I will say about my typed up prep notes is that they do not include specific adventure information (which I usually run out of a module or hardcover) and I copy/paste stuff the PCs have not gotten to yet but may still have a chance to interact with from one session's notes to another. So if you were to look at the binder in which the print out of these types notes live, they might seem repetitive, but it is not like I am rewriting it every time, I am just reorganizing it, so the stuff they might go back to is with the current notes and not further back in the binder forcing me to flip through and remember which session it was that I detailed it for and didn't use.
ART!
Deluxe Unhuman
A friend of mine says that one night his only game prep note for the session was "sexy goblin?" They had stuff prepped from the previous session's prep, they're good at improv, but felt they needed something in their notes and decided off the top of their head that they wanted to work in a sexy goblin somehow.
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