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Message: <blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8976661" data-attributes="member: 71235">This is interesting! I'd like to apply this lens (whoop! whoop!) to Blades in the Dark, with its setting of Doskvol: A city with a sketched-out political geography and predefined factions and NPCs, all of it optional and provisional and not necessary for the players to know before beginning play. Some see it as a direct contradiction to Story Now-type play, but really it's just a prime for the story pump, material to grab off a shelf so you don't have to spend lots of time coming up with bespoke (whoop! whoop!) parts. Factions and NPCs have suggested goals, but there's no plot going on, and detail truly is minimal so you can grab a resource and drop it onto whatever the player characters have going on, and proceed with the action.One potential trap is that players used to needing to be "up on the lore" might read all that material and expect it to be canon, but that's pretty easily headed off at the pass. Even if players have already read the book, the group can work out in the beginning how much they want to treat the material as established vs. a well of potential that can accrete around the seed crystals of the PCs.</blockquote>