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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xamnam" data-source="post: 8852269" data-attributes="member: 7037765">Yep. I don't think there's too much value in throwing out numbers other than finding averages, but I personally probably need about 30 minutes of prep per hour of play, on the outside end, so three hours of prep a month for a campaign is very doable on my end.Exactly. I do think I'm improving, especially with how this Blades game is going, versus MotW, but sticking to the GM principles, using the right moves in response, and especially coming up with narratively driven and fiction changing complications means that my brain is actively processing so much more in the moment, and I can quite honestly feel the mental load as I'm trying to narrate. Worse than that though is every second of dead air, as I'm trying to juggle too much and have to halt the game in order to pick the dropped aspect back up. Now, I'll say, I don't want to just lay out a story with no regard for agency, I actively want to prep in a flexible way, so that I can respond to what the players are doing in a way reminiscent of what PbtA desires, but that's what I did before I read any of those books. I know my table, their desires, their defaults, and what they'll generally find narratively interesting, so I waste little, and can offload the trickier stuff to before the game so I can really focus in on the present. Yes yes yes. It doesn't need to be. Different games will feel wildly different to different people. You've got to find the right game and the right approach, and if someone is finding it actively hard, it might be worth searching for changes that will minimize that.</blockquote>

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