Prepping AL Modules only Once
I started my first go at running AL sessions in January. My original intent was to prep the modules once and be able to host a season at least one or two more times. My group and I are about half way through Season 2 Elemental Evil. And as I get more and more proficient at prepping a module, I am becoming more and more aware of shortcomings in Fantasy Grounds.
If one runs a "big book" module, say Princes of the Apocalypse, one preps before each session, adding little things here and there, maybe more maps, maybe more images, maybe more tokens. One might pad an encounter, edit some read aloud text. Things like that. This prepping will likely be for a module that is run once and never again. Or it might be years before one runs that module again. Also these big books are pricey, maintenance and robustness by FG (thanks Zacchaeus) is pretty much mandatory. Any additional prep material for big books probably does not need to be "persistent".
Some of the things I have noticed are:
1) Verbiage errors or inconsistencies
2) Non-persistent links to external images (pictures, maps, tokens) as described here
3) Incomplete Effect Parsing as described here
There are others I am sure, just can't think of them at the moment.
I have already written two extensions that I use to help migrate pdfs and maintain data consistency, plus an extension that helps me develop extensions. And now I am thinking I need a couple more.
How are you other AL DMs handling this? Am I over thinking this? Over preparing? Or do you run a season once, then done?
Thanks for any help you're willing to provide.