A Sicko’s Guide to Prepping D&D

I am once again DMing 5eA thirteen year campaign, taken off the shelf to honor two decades of friendship. It’s engendered many strange feelings in me. I didn’t anticipate how much honoring old things requires you to stand by their imperfections. The faults in that campaign were telling - they expressed things about me that my friends came to embrace. Removing them would be disrespectful. That campaign is the reason I started reading blogs - to become better, for them. Ten years and a hundred books later, I am better. A decade of work, now barely applicable for its intended purpose. The anti-climax was kindling for a burning question. What would I do different, if I could do it all again? So for my last two months - between packing boxes, moving boxes, and unpacking boxes - I started prepping a fantasy game. Documented below, in step-by-step exhausting detail, is my answer to that “what if?”1 Collect InspirationWrite two lists. Art that made you cry. Art that gave you chills. Add as…