Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Prep: Good Info or Common Sense?

[Fleshgrinder]

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?

[Lorden]

I'm also curious about this if anyone can chime in.

[DSRMT]

Could you link it? I can't even find it

[Fleshgrinder]

http://www.enginepublishing.com/never-unprepared-the-complete-game-masters- guide-to-session-prep

[Ascalaphus]

I thought the preview was pretty promising. Haven't read the final product though; I'm also interested.

[Fleshgrinder]

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.

[Lorden]

Thanks for the info, I think I'll prolly pick up the PDF also.

[Endzeitgeist]

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...

[Fleshgrinder]

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".

[Endzeitgeist]

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.

[Fleshgrinder]

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.

[Darksyde]

Not sure if it was one of you guys or not but a review appeared on rpg.net

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