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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9466421" data-attributes="member: 11760">In the sage example, the &quot;prep&quot; is &quot;look at the standard difficulty level chart.&quot; If you're calling that &quot;prep&quot; then having a rulebook at all is &quot;prep&quot; and it's sort of a meaningless term to throw around.No, I don't. I'm making accommodations to you, as it appears &quot;just making it up&quot; stresses you out.I make up stuff off the top of my head ALL THE TIME. Many DMs do.I pulled the messenger out of my butt on the fly just now, just like I do in the game:&quot;Oh, crap, the players are completely confused. I'd better make up an NPC to guide them back toward where they wanted to originally go.&quot;I feel like I'm missing something here, because this doesn't feel like a mysterious or magical process to me. It's been part of my RPG experience since I first started playing 1E, with a DM at summer camp who literally made up an adventure just using the cover of the 1E PHB for inspiration. There were traps, ambushes, a whole complex he made up sitting at a picnic table, just based on the prompt of &quot;temple with lizardmen and a big statue.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9466421, member: 11760"] In the sage example, the "prep" is "look at the standard difficulty level chart." If you're calling that "prep" then having a rulebook at all is "prep" and it's sort of a meaningless term to throw around. No, I don't. I'm making accommodations to [I]you, [/I]as it appears "just making it up" stresses you out. I make up stuff off the top of my head ALL THE TIME. Many DMs do. I pulled the messenger out of my butt on the fly just now, just like I do in the game: "Oh, crap, the players are completely confused. I'd better make up an NPC to guide them back toward where they wanted to originally go." I feel like I'm missing something here, because this doesn't feel like a mysterious or magical process to me. It's been part of my RPG experience since I first started playing 1E, with a DM at summer camp who literally made up an adventure just using the cover of the 1E PHB for inspiration. There were traps, ambushes, a whole complex he made up sitting at a picnic table, just based on the prompt of "temple with lizardmen and a big statue." [/QUOTE]

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