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<blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 7132555" data-attributes="member: 284">Sure.&nbsp; It's called &quot;using your own imagination and stories&quot; with a few index cards to mark monsters in the MM as you need and adjusting the monsters as needed to make them more interesting.&nbsp; Most are only going to appear for a single combat, so no reason to spend time working out an exact stat block.&nbsp; Learn to cook.&nbsp; Seriously, coming up with your own stuff isn't hard and it takes less time than reading and adapting prepublished adventures from a setting you don't like.&nbsp;&nbsp; DM'ing a campaign on the fly in 5e isn't that hard, it's how I run 90% of my game sessions.&nbsp; Compared to 3e, it's a piece of cake (yay bounded accuracy).&nbsp; I know how the world works and who the major players are, the rest I come up with on the fly in response to player actions.&nbsp; Sometimes I'll spend a few hours statting out a major NPC or designing a new magic item or sub-class I had an NPC use, but that's all optional.&nbsp; I haven't used a published adventure (unless I was running something for Adventure League or Pathfinder) in over a decade.&nbsp; I also work full time, play computer games for a few hours every evening, and play Adventure League on the weekend.&nbsp; I generally spend less than two hours actually prepping for the 4-8 hour gaming sessions I run every other weekend (as far as typing stuff up goes.&nbsp; I spend a lot more time thinking about it on my commute to work or when I have nothing else going on.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caliban, post: 7132555, member: 284"] Sure. It's called "using your own imagination and stories" with a few index cards to mark monsters in the MM as you need and adjusting the monsters as needed to make them more interesting. Most are only going to appear for a single combat, so no reason to spend time working out an exact stat block. Learn to cook. Seriously, coming up with your own stuff isn't hard and it takes less time than reading and adapting prepublished adventures from a setting you don't like. DM'ing a campaign on the fly in 5e isn't that hard, it's how I run 90% of my game sessions. Compared to 3e, it's a piece of cake (yay bounded accuracy). I know how the world works and who the major players are, the rest I come up with on the fly in response to player actions. Sometimes I'll spend a few hours statting out a major NPC or designing a new magic item or sub-class I had an NPC use, but that's all optional. I haven't used a published adventure (unless I was running something for Adventure League or Pathfinder) in over a decade. I also work full time, play computer games for a few hours every evening, and play Adventure League on the weekend. I generally spend less than two hours actually prepping for the 4-8 hour gaming sessions I run every other weekend (as far as typing stuff up goes. I spend a lot more time thinking about it on my commute to work or when I have nothing else going on.) [/QUOTE]

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