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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3045852" data-attributes="member: 3649"><p>I would say 'don't give up yet'. A couple things you need to look in to are time management and efficiency. Look at the adventures you're creating for the group and see what was used, and what wasn't. Did you spend a lot of time crafting things they never did or never got to?</p><p></p><p>If you think you can never use anything from that adventure again, you are wrong. Most of the D&D prep work comes from doing the statblocks for an encounter. Now, I could tell you to go buy something like E-Tools or some other program which will do a perfectly nice statblock for you in a few seconds once you get past the learning curve, but there's more you can do. </p><p></p><p>How many orc encounters are you going to run for a group or their adventuring lives? Probably several, especially at lower levels. Take an hour and detail two or three smaller blocks of statblocks. Do a couple chieftain types, and then you have sufficient orc statblocks for three or fours months of gaming. Mix and match them, use the same set of stats, and eyeball any changes that need to be made.</p><p></p><p>Eyeballing will also save you a tremendous amount of time. You've been GMing for some time now, so I'd expect you can run most common monster encounters out of your head. When I was running 3.0 regularly, I could do that: troll, HP 50, +1 mace. Claw +x 2dn damage, bite +x 1dn. That's all I needed to create an encounter. </p><p></p><p>I guess without seeing the work you put into a common gaming session, I can't give much more in the way of advice, but it kinda sounds like you're overthinking this whole thing too much. Putting too much work and detail into scenarios, and then thinking you have to do it all over again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 3045852, member: 3649"] I would say 'don't give up yet'. A couple things you need to look in to are time management and efficiency. Look at the adventures you're creating for the group and see what was used, and what wasn't. Did you spend a lot of time crafting things they never did or never got to? If you think you can never use anything from that adventure again, you are wrong. Most of the D&D prep work comes from doing the statblocks for an encounter. Now, I could tell you to go buy something like E-Tools or some other program which will do a perfectly nice statblock for you in a few seconds once you get past the learning curve, but there's more you can do. How many orc encounters are you going to run for a group or their adventuring lives? Probably several, especially at lower levels. Take an hour and detail two or three smaller blocks of statblocks. Do a couple chieftain types, and then you have sufficient orc statblocks for three or fours months of gaming. Mix and match them, use the same set of stats, and eyeball any changes that need to be made. Eyeballing will also save you a tremendous amount of time. You've been GMing for some time now, so I'd expect you can run most common monster encounters out of your head. When I was running 3.0 regularly, I could do that: troll, HP 50, +1 mace. Claw +x 2dn damage, bite +x 1dn. That's all I needed to create an encounter. I guess without seeing the work you put into a common gaming session, I can't give much more in the way of advice, but it kinda sounds like you're overthinking this whole thing too much. Putting too much work and detail into scenarios, and then thinking you have to do it all over again. [/QUOTE]
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