I had hoped to be able to play all weekend, but my son and his girlfriend have other plans, so we don’t get to play until Monday.

No problem! How many DM’s would love the chance to have two more days to work on things.

There are several different avenues that they could explore, so I am glad I have more time to flesh things out.

I have been trying to fit it in over lunch during the week and between chores and taking care of my dog after work and before bed. There are days I just want to veg, or days my brain won’t cooperate after a long day at work, so I have to veg.

Well, tonight I am in the mood and the right frame of mind to work on fleshing out things for the current sequence of events and related items that have caught the players’ attention.

There are some things that I can wing very well. Once I have a name for an NPC and an idea of presenting how I envision they will act, I am good to go. But certain things, like treasure maps and planning where certain things are, I am wired to need more prep time for that.

So I will be working on the things that I need a bit more prep time to make ready and will clean up my notes from play. That is, I will re-write them and make sure I don’t forget the names of NPC’s that I came up with on the fly.

I always end up with way more material than I will ever use.

Now, with the era of online RPG play, I can use live, in-person play time to bring it to life, and if I ever DM an online game, I have scenarios all ready to go.