I'm thinking of blowing the 10 dollars on this PDF book but a lot of "DM prep" books I've previewed have been full of stuff any DM knows already.
Anyone taken a look at this product?
I'm also curious about this if anyone can chime in.
http://www.enginepublishing.com/never-unprepared-the-complete-game-masters- guide-to-session-prep
So I splurged and picked up the PDF for 10 bucks.
It's decent. It's pretty dense, a hundred pages but the font is a little large, it could have been a shorter book with more normal font, but it does make it a lot easier to read on a computer screen.
Even in the introduction I picked up some interesting tips I'd never considered (like thinking of GMing like radio; silence is death).
I feel it's worth 10 bucks, but I wouldn't pay anything more and I don't think a hard copy would be worth it.
Thanks for the info, I think I'll prolly pick up the PDF also.
Thanks for biting the bullet, I probably would have hated it. I'm still waiting for a GM-advice book that doesn't make me go "D'uuuuunhhhh" all the time, i.e. tips for very advanced GMs...
Yeah, most books I've found have been stuff any DM can figure out.
This book is more on structuring prep into a better work flow.
The author himself is both a long time GM AND a project manager, so the book is him kind of combining his hobby with his professional skill set to create "optimized prep time".
I need next to no prep time due to a hilariously good memory (I read most books once and can still quote them years after - reading pdfs twice for reviews is already very redundant for me), suck at drawing maps (hence I like 0one games, Fantastic Maps etc.) and can write in a verisimilitude of hands and letters for hand-outs, so my prep-time is usually no more than 10 -20 minutes. Thanks for the info - I probably wouldn't have gotten anything out of this book.
Yeah, if you're a total off the cuff DM, this has little of value.
I'm a bit of a hybrid DM, so this has a few useful ideas for me.
Not sure if it was one of you guys or not but a review appeared on rpg.net