Write For Yourself

Preorder Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster! Your notes only serve you. Don’t prep your notes as though you’re writing for publication. Write what you need to run your next game. I think there are two common mistakes GMs make when they think about preparing their games. First, some GMs look at published adventures as examples of what their prep should look like. Second, some GMs write their prep material with the idea that they might publish it for other GMs. In both cases, writing your session notes as though someone else is going to use them or read them misses the point. Your session notes only serve you and they serve you only to run your next session. The Short Adventures of the 2024 DMG The 2024 D&D Dungeon Master's Guide includes a new format for adventures that fill about a half of a page. Wizards of the Coast kept this short format adventure in the Forgotten Realms Adventures in Faerun book as well. Some GMs are definitely not fans of this format but whatever you think of these…

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