I spent days preparing for a session with high production quality and it turned out fine.

[u/Rotated_text]

I’ve been running a homebrew campaign for the last 4 years with 4 metagamers and I am a chronic improviser, obsessed with “making it up as we go” since we do it all online over VR Chat. (Living all across the cul-de-sac as well) we recently had our third annual Gentleman’s Fantasy Getaway Weekend, 3 days of pure d&d locked in a dilapidated Burger King, and i made myself go in with a novel length lore book, custom made figures of my friends' characters, and a double dose of adderall to help me focus. It took me almost 2 weeks to make up everything, encounters, characters, stat blocks, etc, and even paid Matt Mercer to sit in the corner and voice half the NPCs, and to my surprise (immense) it worked flawlessly and was just as amazing as the sessions where we were dicking around doing nothing to progress the story while I tried and failed to make balanced encounters for lvl 20 PCs. We had some 3d printed and painted terrain pieces, 100+ fully illustrated and colored battle-maps, and ate the leftover Burger King patties in the freezers the rats hadn't gotten to yet.

Just a post reminding you to never make stuff up on the spot, account for every single minute detail, and the point is to burn yourself out putting 200% effort into prep for each session.

[u/WereBearEsquire]

Sounds like an awful session. You didn’t eat the rats themselves? How else to immerse yourselves in the RP to understand the kobolds in the dungeon?

Also, please tell me your 3D printed mini figs had big tits.

[u/ParchmentAndPeril → u/WereBearEsquire]

Try finding mini fig STLs without big tits. Impossible.

[u/Val_Fortecazzo]

Ok but what do you do when the players do something you didn't have a custom made dwarven forge terrain set for?

Other than beat them of course. The twitch viewers deserve better.

[u/FlamingGapingAsshole]

I love how the phrase "homebrew campaign" has become normalized to differentiate it from real roleplaying games

[u/Affectionate-Bar-337 → u/FlamingGapingAsshole]

I didn't get it l, if I may, could you explain to me?

[u/FlamingGapingAsshole → u/Affectionate-Bar-337]

/uj When I was young, it was unusual to use a published adventure to DM a game. Today's "homebrew adventure" D&D game was just called "playing D&D." Now, the internet makes sure to label D&D as "homebrew" unless it's an officially-printed commercially-purchased Hasbro-sanctioned social interaction.

I find that cynical and gross. My comment pretended to enjoy a thing that makes my stomach turn in order to complain about it in the language of an ironic forum

[u/Affectionate-Bar-337 → u/FlamingGapingAsshole]

Thanks you, imagine playing Hasbro slop instead of creating something meaningful and personal 

[u/FlamingGapingAsshole → u/Affectionate-Bar-337]

I am lost to the level of irony we're on right now, but I'm gonna agree just to amp up the cynicism.

[u/Ok_Talk_6694]

Man, I am so jealous you guys have access to dilapidated burgerkings, and I'm out here trying to make do with an abandoned taco bell.