Make Your Mods Easier to Dungeon Master
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7. Itemize your mods! It is very time consuming for a DM to itemize everything. This is due to two different things. First, a DM does not know what an item's properties are unless he spawns it in his inventory and checks. Second, in order for a DM to put an item in a chest, he has to manually open the chest and stick it in by hand. This takes time and also if your players are around they *will* see the chest/barrel/crate opening by itself and know you're there, which spoils the experience. All in all, it takes the DM between 30 seconds to 2 minutes to find the kind of item he's looking for and put it in a box, and he has to do that BEFORE his players get to the object so they don't see him. That means that every item he wants to give a player causes him to be away from the group for at least 30 seconds.
