So you are probably wondering whatever happened to that new year's resolution. Yeah, my computer crashed. My computer was brought down by a virus but I had a friend help me out with my laptop. You know who you are and I send you praise by saying thank you to that person. Now that I have my computer running the default windows programs, I can discuss my update for my book. I have unfortunately made very little progress on my book. Boy does my life have its highs and lows. At least I have my own place, I am still alive, and I am independent.
So I have also just hosted a quick and dirty dungeon crawl last night that lasted a couple hours and it was fun for something that took 5 minutes to prepare and spent most of the rest of the adventure improvising as a DM. Idea, quick drawn sketch, knowledge of game mechanics, and lastly improvisation ....... There you go people, That is all you need for one improvised campaign. Roleplaying can be quite fun. However, what really sucks all of the time and fun for roleplaying is preparation. Preparation is important, but if you are spending too much time preparing the roleplaying session on game night either as the DM or the player, then you are sucking all of the fun out of the pastime. Basically, you are turning the night into a studying for a test night by spending time with character creation, writing up plot points for the session (DM job), reading game mechanics, drawing up site maps (DM job), et cetera. As either a player or a DM, no one wants to sit there and be bored looking at a DM or looking at a few players to play on game night while preparations are taking place. The options on the table for everyone involved at this point if this is happening on the night you decide to roleplay are the following:
1) you wait on the people (this will only work if it takes a few minutes, otherwise everyone will be bored with waiting).
2) decide to do another activity
3) help out to speed the process along to get game night started
4) start without a few player(s) and just start the roleplaying session with the players that are ready
5) or just hang out as friends
What I personally think about this personal situation is that I like options 2 or 5 if I want to take a break from a roleplaying session. However, what happened was that one person had a prebuilt character and the other person was so skilled at knowing the character creation mechanics that he built a 5th level fighter in 10 minutes. With graph paper, I quickly drew a few rooms and then I improvised the rest. I am awesome and I am thankful that I am an imaginative person as well. The game wasn't a serious session, but it was fun for me to host anyway. I enjoy being a DM for a roleplaying session.
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