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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Hello everyone
« on: January 28, 2012, 08:22:37 AM »
As for the Masks campaign, I found another actual play recording of it on the community site. Bet there are others out there as well, but I'll go for this one :-)
http://community.roleplayingpublicradio.com/blog/tag/masks-of-nyarlathotep/
As for the preparation. I think I'm using a lot more time doing it now than I did when I started GM'ing. Somehow I don't feel I'm doing the game justice if I don't come very well prepared. This might have something to do with the fact that I don't play that often anymore, earlier I would play twice a week (5-6 hour sessions), so obviously couldn't take as long to prepare.
Now it's like when I'm writing my own scenarios (most of the time - actually this Masks CoC thing is the first premade adventure I've run since... dunno.. maybe some ol Temple of Elemental Evil thing back in the days), I almost try to write them detailed enough for publishing (not really, but I don't just do notes). In this way I can go back to them again years later, which you never know when might come in handy. As for this Masks campaign. Well, I felt like I needed to research to twenties, read the campaign, take notes to the various scenes, and come up with pictures of various 20'es stuff (cities, ships, cars, fashion). But hey, it's not like I don't like this preparation process. It just takes a lot of time, and I'm often wondering where I might be able to skip a bit lighter through it. Just thought, maybe a discussion on this could be interesting. But I'll check out the links joe posted, sooner or later I'll probably get through all the episodes anyway.
Thanks for your feedback everyone
-vanvid-
http://community.roleplayingpublicradio.com/blog/tag/masks-of-nyarlathotep/
As for the preparation. I think I'm using a lot more time doing it now than I did when I started GM'ing. Somehow I don't feel I'm doing the game justice if I don't come very well prepared. This might have something to do with the fact that I don't play that often anymore, earlier I would play twice a week (5-6 hour sessions), so obviously couldn't take as long to prepare.
Now it's like when I'm writing my own scenarios (most of the time - actually this Masks CoC thing is the first premade adventure I've run since... dunno.. maybe some ol Temple of Elemental Evil thing back in the days), I almost try to write them detailed enough for publishing (not really, but I don't just do notes). In this way I can go back to them again years later, which you never know when might come in handy. As for this Masks campaign. Well, I felt like I needed to research to twenties, read the campaign, take notes to the various scenes, and come up with pictures of various 20'es stuff (cities, ships, cars, fashion). But hey, it's not like I don't like this preparation process. It just takes a lot of time, and I'm often wondering where I might be able to skip a bit lighter through it. Just thought, maybe a discussion on this could be interesting. But I'll check out the links joe posted, sooner or later I'll probably get through all the episodes anyway.
Thanks for your feedback everyone
-vanvid-