Prepping for a New Game

It’s sometimes surprising just how often you read something and you say to yourself “hey, that’s me!” I had one of those moments as I was catching up on all the reading I’ve been neglecting over the last week or so.

In his blog posting Using TT to Prep for a Game: A Case Study Martin Ralya mentions a number of things that I could personally relate to:

1. He ended his previous stint as GM about the same time he started Treasure Tables
2. His group has a number of players that will also GM
3. He’s set to start up again as a GM for his group

As for myself, my last campaign came to a close about the time I started up blogging, my group has a number of capable GMs (okay everyone in the group has been a GM at one time or another) and I’m getting ready to start up again as GM (sometime at the beginning of 2008).

So why bring this up? First off, Martin’s posting is an interesting read and it shows a number of resources on his site that he has found helpful in getting prepped for his new game and it leads me into what I hope to be able to do over the next several months – share my process.

Like many others online I want to share what I go through as a means to help you by showing you how someone else does things and at the same time I hope you’ll be willing to share your thoughts and opinions so I can learn from you as well.

The place I’m going to start this time is by going back to my last campaign, The Realms of Rylon which ended a while ago. Why start there and not with a new map, plot or idea? Simple, it’s best to learn from our mistakes and I’m going to start by taking a look at what I think I did right and what I could have done better – after all, if you don’t know what’s broke you can’t fix it.

May your dice roll well.