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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9014765" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I've been DMing for decades, I still get performance anxiety before the game. I never feel prepared.  Probably partly because my notes for the session are two paragraphs and a handful of possible encounter and I am frequently woefully underprepared, or at least it feels like it.  But I'm familiar with the actors, I know who's doing what and why, I've given thought to the general locale.  Then when the game starts I just kind of improvise.  The party turns right at Albuquerque instead of left like I had expected?  Well I can change the descriptions of these monsters and base this new NPC on someone else I was going to introduce and it all just kind of works.I have a serious case of imposter syndrome and keep thinking someone is going to just stop in the middle of the game and tell me I have no clue what I'm doing.  But so far, so good.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>