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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 205601" data-attributes="member: 158">Oracular Vision:Given who Orcus is, that "played a few games" is actually 20+ years of experience running D&D talking. When he says "First Edition Feel," he means it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Seriously, no one is bashing DMs who like to prepare ahead of time - Clark Peterson in fact makes his living off of helping DM's be better prepared! It is better to be prepared than not be, but this advice has been around since Gary Gygax rolled up his first NPC.However, I also feel that too much is being made out of how much 3E is non-conducive to runnning low-prep games. Why is it that many people feel that 3E CANNOT be run well without every NPC, every monster, and every trap statted out in full? There are dozens of posters on this site alone that offer contrary evidence to this.Eric Noah's point hit it well - no one on this Earth has had more than 4 or so years of experience running a 3E game. Experience is the best teacher of the game, and with familiarity comes running games with less prep time.</blockquote>