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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5905233" data-attributes="member: 22424">Yes, though only for "special event" games such as conventions, one-shots, or the first session in a new campaign. For 'standard' games I'm fine.I suffer similarly when my band are about to put on an important performance, or before a competition. And just before the speech I had to give at my wedding, I was something of a mess.In my case, I'm reasonably sure it's because I try to hold myself to pretty high standards, and also because I'm very keen not to let other people down.Sounds like you're as well prepared as you could reasonably hope to be. And yet, somehow it doesn't help, does 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=":)" />I've come to embrace the nerves before a big performance. After all, they seem to mostly work out okay, and the nerves are generally a sign that I actually have taken it as seriously as I should and have done the appropriate work. If for no other reason than in those cases where I haven't, it's not nerves I feel - it's a creeping feeling of dread instead!(And, incidentally, it's my understanding that such nerves before a performance are not at all uncommon, and indeed that some of the very best at what they do suffer from nerves quite out of proportion to their appropriateness.)</blockquote>

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