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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8975364" data-attributes="member: 82106">Sure, PCs must be connected to something in narrative play, or it will be impossible to really engage them. Dungeon World is pretty close to No Myth, no setting exists at all until session 0 starts, at which point probably a steading will be created, and maybe one or two locations of some sort. However the PCs will have bonds with each other, and alignment, and the GM will probably ask them where they're from, etc. That and the implications of their playbooks, remembering that as far as DW is concerned you are THE wizard, THE fighter, etc. not one of many!Well, in classic trad D&D the GM makes a lot of setting (at least a base of operations, some dungeon levels, and a bit of connecting terrain), a bunch of NPCs, etc. However, traditionally NOTHING is said about the PCs at all! They aren't locals, they have no background/backstory, their class is just a generic template, and literally all you have is an alignment, and the purely gamist conceit that the PCs will band together and cooperate (even though there's absolutely nothing driving that). Thus the appellation 'murder hobos'. WotC D&D has tacked some background and whatnot onto that, but its a pretty thin thing. I don't know of any version of D&D, not even 4e, that attempts to actively encourage things like any relationship or history between the PCs. 5e BIFTs certainly don't do that. In effect players do no prep at all in this sort of game. It isn't even just D&D, Call of Cthulhu for instance, there are no ties between PCs, generally. Traveller, you just somehow showed up on the same ship/planet/bar/TAS etc.</blockquote>

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