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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shoe" data-source="post: 5186002" data-attributes="member: 89612">A - Creating Memorable NPC's, items, locations and events:  Every campaign I run there is something super cool that everyone remembers from years to come.  Be it the Half-Red Dragon Bluebird to the Player Death by an animated sofa, each game has that moment that the players will NEVER forget B - Improv:  I have Ummmm...moments from time to time, but up until recently i barely planned my campaigns at all.  I had a list of important plot points from start to finish and improved the rest.  I even designed encounters on the spot...sometimes whole dungeons (and without delaying the game too much) C - Roleplay:  While I try to make each NPC unique I am often unprepaired to answer in question for some of the more boring NPC's.  Shopkeeps, while i keep the name consistant per town and the like have little to no personality, as do the random town guardsman...etc.  Major NPC's are interresting but the minor ones i could work on D - Preperation:  I never prepare for my games more than like an hour in advance...it's something i have been working on with my latest yet-to-be-run game  F - Keeping the game on track: my players love to joke, tangent, go on food runs, and wax political at the table, some of them even bring laptops and Code while gaming and I am not super good at keeping this kind of stuff in check....our sessions can last 8 hours and we only game for 3</blockquote>

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