Pretty sure it happened to everyone, you lacked time to prep tonight session, and now the first player just arrived

Bonus point if you explain how to do it when tired.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    A shopping trip can kill half a session if it’s been a while. Then maybe one of the shopkeepers has a problem that would be worth one of the nicer items in their shop if it were taken care of for them.

    • corcaroli@ttrpg.network
      1·
      6 months ago

      A shopping trip can kill half a session if it’s been a while.

      Do you really have fun running a session like that? Me and my players would die of boredom.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        2·
        6 months ago

        I think a lot of it is the dopamine of getting to upgrade your character.

        Also, I have observed that people LOVE getting everything together to get kitted out for a mission. If there’s some special equipment they’re going to need to go into the temple, and they’re trying to think what they would need once they get there and running around town putting it all together, they just get super excited and it gets them amped up for the adventure. It is fun in my experience, although yes YMMV.

      • Fashtas 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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        6 months ago

        I stufferd a store in for my players to shop (Foundry) because it had been a while, and just grabbed a pre-built one and tossed it in…

        they spent the night planning and implementing a massive heist because one item cost too much for them to afford and they wanted it… I had NOTHING for this (half the players beliefs on the shopkeeper, how they worked and how they could be robbed was based on some crappy random generated name and they had made “assumptions”…)

        Found out later they thought I planned it all