MNblockhead
A Title Much Cooler Than Anything on the Old Site
Well #1 is the least important of those listed when it comes to running a game. I'm not saying having some sense of what you are going to do in a session is not needed, most of us are going to run better games with some planning and preparation. But the most important thing is to give it a go, reflect on lessons learned, and try again, incorporating the lessons learned. If you skip #1, one of your lessons learned is likely "have a plan", but it is often also "huh, I don't need to spend as much time planning and preparing as I've convinced myself I should be doing."I definitely should have done step 1