Hello everyone,

Thanksgiving this week means the Winter holidays aren't too far away. Everyone's pressed for time during this season, it seems. Gaming might be thrown out the window as “too time consuming,” largely due to GM prep. This is precisely when we should be getting the group together the most – it's about community. No, I'm not going to play Christmas music anytime soon (or via email!), but I will share some streamline tips. There's much GMs can do in order to have to do less before game time, every time.

Productive Tips to Streamline Prep
Work, school, cleaning and then prepare the game? Something all GMs learn to remain efficient and keep up with their own lives is streamline the prep process. While that means different things from one person to the next, here's four tips when you've got fewer (or shorter) blocks of time to spend.

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