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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2905592" data-attributes="member: 198">For me, a crucial aspect of winging it which has been alluded to in passing but not emphasized in this thread is the importance of practice. The more often you fly by the seat of your pants, the better you get. I'm pretty good at winging it, I think, and one of the primary reasons is that I've consistently been doing so over the last 1.5 years in two campaigns, even when I didn't need to. Sometimes I'd throw in a new NPC without having planned for it. Sometimes I added a little something to a combat on the spur of the moment. Usually it was because it seemed appropriate, but part of it was to intentionally give myself some practice at winging it (I have only been gaming for 7 years, so not much practice at DMing). Since both campaigns are primarily city-based and I like players to be able to do whatever the heck they want, a lot of the time I'm also winging things with them going off to talk to somebody or the other that I had no preparation for. With all of the above, I'm very comfortable winging things now. Which worked out really handy when I forgot my notes a couple months ago and had to run a 5 hr session with heavy roleplaying and multiple combats with nothing but my memory and whatever I could pull out of my ass of holding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 2905592, member: 198"] For me, a crucial aspect of winging it which has been alluded to in passing but not emphasized in this thread is the importance of practice. The more often you fly by the seat of your pants, the better you get. I'm pretty good at winging it, I think, and one of the primary reasons is that I've consistently been doing so over the last 1.5 years in two campaigns, even when I didn't need to. Sometimes I'd throw in a new NPC without having planned for it. Sometimes I added a little something to a combat on the spur of the moment. Usually it was because it seemed appropriate, but part of it was to intentionally give myself some practice at winging it (I have only been gaming for 7 years, so not much practice at DMing). Since both campaigns are primarily city-based and I like players to be able to do whatever the heck they want, a lot of the time I'm also winging things with them going off to talk to somebody or the other that I had no preparation for. With all of the above, I'm very comfortable winging things now. Which worked out really handy when I forgot my notes a couple months ago and had to run a 5 hr session with heavy roleplaying and multiple combats with nothing but my memory and whatever I could pull out of my ass of holding. [/QUOTE]

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