Here’s a new project – I’m fascinated by prep, in all its forms – one-shot, long-form, session notes, handwritten scribbles. My own and others. A quick check online leads me to believe lots of you are, too. So, I’m going to showcase this on the blog. I can’t promise every session I’ll share my prep notes, but I’ll try and do it where I can – and I’ll offer a variable amount of commentary. These are also going to be 50% patreon exclusive – half of them will never be released to the public – so spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to share your own prep and talk to me about it.

Continuing our series focussed on prep, I thought I’d share my development of a 13th Age Glorantha one-shot I ran recently for the channel. I think because I had designer Jonathan Tweet in the group, I over-thought it a bit and went through a few iterations of prep. This is natural! I hope you find this evolution interesting even though it probably makes this a bit harder to run yourselves.

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I’ve left my original notes here, with my revisions below each scene – the last set of revisions was done by hand on a printout of this, because I was at the actual convention as I did it. All references to monsters are from the 13th Age Glorantha rulebook.

3 Players

1.5 Hours

Ran face to face at The Kraken gaming retreat in Germany – recorded here on Unconventional GMs.

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