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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8994323" data-attributes="member: 6790260">It is complicated.There is a general preference that you engage in what is called &quot;no-myth&quot; gaming. But, as I said, the text actually explicitly says &quot;exploit your prep,&quot; which is...pretty hard to do if you don't have any knowledge in advance. More or less, DW is geared for the GM coming in with no preplanned campaign--no setting, no locations, no premises--until you have at least Session Zero. But that doesn't mean adventures after that cannot have any prep work.Different people disagree about exactly how...thorough you should be with &quot;no myth.&quot; Is it fair to start with a loose map, that the players can modify during Session Zero? Can you pitch a very specific premise like &quot;all-centaur game where the PCs are fighting off strange two-leg invaders who have enslaved terrifying, fire-breathing metal monsters,&quot; or is that something that has to be hashed out via Session Zero? Once the campaign has begun, do you still need to stick rigidly to &quot;NOTHING WHATSOEVER can be true unless it's directly seen on-camera,&quot; or can you have prepared things off-screen? If you can, how much? Etc.I tend to favor relatively low-myth. I do prepare certain truths, or forces primed to do something. I try to avoid preparing plots, and instead focus on events, locations, and (potential) consequences. Oftentimes, those locations are in places we simply haven't looked before. That's easy in the setting, because it's in a big country with a Moroccan-like environment, so there are many, many square miles of empty desert or arid land where secrets could have been hiding for centuries or even millennia.Some DW GMs prefer to go for essentially no myth ever, at any point. I don't personally grok that, but if it works for them, great. I see things like &quot;think offscreen, too&quot; and &quot;exploit your prep&quot; as indicating that there should be some stuff the GM knows that the players don't know, but that that should be (a) kept to a relative minimum and (b) only done in order to have prep that can be exploited, not just for its own sake. Point (a) comes from &quot;think offscreen, too&quot;--the structure implies that you should be thinking on screen most of the time, but some of the time, you should augment it with offscreen stuff. Point (b) comes from &quot;exploit your prep&quot;--prep that isn't exploitable isn't worth preparing, more or less.But, then again, I've also been told by more than one person that I don't really run DW properly. Maybe I'm the crazy one here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8994323, member: 6790260"] It is complicated. There is a [I]general[/I] preference that you engage in what is called "no-myth" gaming. But, as I said, the text actually explicitly says "exploit your prep," which is...pretty hard to do if you don't have any knowledge in advance. More or less, DW is geared for the GM coming in with no preplanned campaign--no setting, no locations, no premises--until you have at least Session Zero. But that doesn't mean adventures [I]after that[/I] cannot have any prep work. Different people disagree about exactly how...thorough you should be with "no myth." Is it fair to start with a loose map, that the players can modify during Session Zero? Can you pitch a very specific premise like "all-centaur game where the PCs are fighting off strange two-leg invaders who have enslaved terrifying, fire-breathing metal monsters," or is that something that has to be hashed out via Session Zero? Once the campaign has begun, do you still need to stick rigidly to "NOTHING WHATSOEVER can be true unless it's directly seen on-camera," or can you have prepared things off-screen? If you can, how [I]much[/I]? Etc. I tend to favor relatively low-myth. I do prepare certain truths, or forces primed to do something. I try to avoid preparing [I]plots[/I], and instead focus on events, locations, and (potential) consequences. Oftentimes, those locations are in places we simply haven't looked before. That's easy in the setting, because it's in a big country with a Moroccan-like environment, so there are many, many square miles of empty desert or arid land where secrets could have been hiding for centuries or even millennia. Some DW GMs prefer to go for essentially no myth ever, at any point. I don't personally grok that, but if it works for them, great. I see things like "think offscreen, too" and "exploit your prep" as indicating that there should be [I]some[/I] stuff the GM knows that the players don't know, but that that should be (a) kept to a relative minimum and (b) only done in order to have prep that can be exploited, not just for its own sake. Point (a) comes from "think offscreen, too"--the structure implies that you [I]should[/I] be thinking on screen most of the time, but [I]some[/I] of the time, you should augment it with offscreen stuff. Point (b) comes from "exploit your prep"--prep that [I]isn't[/I] exploitable isn't worth preparing, more or less. But, then again, I've also been told by more than one person that I don't really run DW properly. Maybe I'm the crazy one here. [/QUOTE]

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