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You could use the Fiasco system. Plenty of scenario playbooks (that's not the game jargon for them) that can provide various connections...

In Burning Wheel, connections between PCs are established mostly as Beliefs. For instance, when my friend and I built PCs for a game, my...

Also this is just insulting, and literally the opposite of what I've seen and heard about in play.

I was talking about inspirations in the world design. I despise this sort of PBTA-elitist BS, that are fixed in a very specific...

Yeah, reading that update was what I was referring to "just noticing." Anyway, looking forward to the final Sites chapter to use...

There was an update talking about it. Jeremy gave Jason what notes he had. Jason said it was difficult trying to write in someone else's...

I don't think that there is anyone more than Jeremy Strandberg who wants the writing for Stonetop to be done. Jeremy did have a heart...

I use connections, with a sentence, or three of how you know each other, and take a skill point (max of two connection skill points).

So, a lot of them are game dependent. Stonetop, for instance, has a series of questions that are asked about the town and the people in...

Oh yeah those were just a handful of examples. Dungeon World’s SRD is online and you can look at the class bonds questions for...

The roots of the game grew out of the author's home D&D campaign circa late 'aughts played in 4e, and taking inspiration from Storming...

As @prabe noted, many games provide for this in their toolkit. Beyond the Wall does it during the life path character building, with a...

What tools do y'all have for establishing connections between PCs at session 0?

I usually go around the table (or down the user list) asking each player how their character knows the character of the player to their...

I want to say that this was such a good opener and it made my groups' night