Sometimes you sit down 3 hours before a #dnd session with no ideas, feeling creatively bummed out, and just not prepared to DM… then you have a small idea, just the beginnings of something, that you hope will be enough for the players and it exceeds all your expectations. 🙂
— Sherlock Hulmes – HighRollers Sun @ 5pm GMT (@sherlock_hulmes) October 3, 2021
Then you improvise, I dunno, what’s meant to be a short timefilling encounter with a Geordie pixie or summat and whatever it was you palnned doesn’t get used because suddenly the party have adopted the Geordie pixie and are helping them pay back their student loan or whatever. *sigh*. Nowhere did I say I can't improvise, or don't know how. Been doing this a while and pretty sure I can improv well. But I *like* to prep, I *like* having stuff to tempt the PCs with, and this isn't for just a normal game with mates, this is for a stream that people watch.
— Sherlock Hulmes – HighRollers Sun @ 5pm GMT (@sherlock_hulmes) October 3, 2021
Sorry… I’m not trying to tell you how to do your stuff I’m sharing a past experience in what I thought was a jokey way. You spend time carefully planning and then throw in a random something for colour that the party inevitably grabs onto and hares off after.It's fine mate. I blew up a bit because I get a LOT of bad faith replies trying to brag/tell me what to do, so sorry for that. But at the same time, yeah the jokey/anecdote stuff hits different compared to in-person at the pub, or if I was asking for advice/suggestions.
— Sherlock Hulmes – HighRollers Sun @ 5pm GMT (@sherlock_hulmes) October 4, 2021