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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6086714" data-attributes="member: 2093">It would be a good time to discuss things like the overarching game theme, the tone of the campaign you want to run, the goals the players have for this campaign, etc...It doesn't really work if YOU are planning to run a high-intrigue, romance and chivalry campaign where death is not on the table and fail-forward is your method of handling setbacks, but two of your players think it is going to be a grim-and-gritty deathmatch game of "outwit the DM" and two others are in the mood for a wuxia-flavored world-shaking epic. Also, this is a good time to give each PC some rumors, some plot threads and some potential enemies/allies in the campaign. But DO NOT paint yourself too far into one corner - you want to be able to shift gears if things go ways you're not expecting; if you've set up a marvelous intrigue-based thread focusing on the rescue of a lost heir, and the PCs kill your best potential heir in the third scene when they get sick of his whining, you've got to have room to find a new heir, or a new plot arc!</blockquote>