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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8996494" data-attributes="member: 42582">[USER=48965]@Imaro[/USER], there is no prep in In A Wicked Age that resembles D&D prep.The players sit down. They agree, via some social method, which Oracles to use. They draw cards (who does this is not specified by the rules - it's assumed that a group of people can work out how to get 4 cards drawn from a deck of playing cards). They look at the cards and read the Oracles.Then they go around the table taking turns to note characters expressly or impliedly emerging from the Oracles, until everyone's happy that it's done. Then they allocate these as I said above (again, using a social process - there is no rule governing choosing). They assign their stats, right up any particular strengths, and play starts.The next session begins the same way. The only difference is that the player who achieved a particular status last session (I won't bore you with the details: it's a combination of luck and choice) gets to choose one of the Oracles (in lieu of random draw) and there are some rules for bringing back an old character rather than having to play a new one- those rules reference the notes that are generated by monitoring the status that determines who gets the make the choice of Oracle.Another game with no lists of the D&D sort, and for which the prep is very different from D&D (for instance, no maps are prepared) is Agon. Unlike In A Wicked Age there are persistent PCs. But like In A Wicked Age a NPC or creature or inanimate obstacle (eg a mountain or a whirlpool) is mechanically just a dice pool.In Agon the GM has very great control over where the PCs find themselves and hence what situation confronts them. But almost no control over the outcome of that situation, or what it means for the PCs' quest to return home from the Trojan War, mostly because at no point is that prep reference to establish consequences as it routinely is in D&D.</blockquote>

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