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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7475959" data-attributes="member: 42582">[MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION], apparently there is no escape! (Though I can sympathise with the need to take a break from marking - thus was many an ENworld post born!)I'll have another go too - this claim, as you are presenting it, is not true.Here's a description of <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?586642-Classic-Traveller-session-report-with-reflections-on-the-system-long" target="_blank">a Traveller first session</a> that I actually played. No scenario creation in advance of playing the game. (I'd rolled up a couple of worlds in advance of play, but neither was the starting world, and I could have done that just as easily during play.)Here's a description of <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?530990-Into-the-North-Cortex-Plus-Heroic-Fantasy-actual-play" target="_blank">a Cortex+ Heroic first session</a> that I actually played. No scenario creation in advance of playing the game. (I'd pre-genned some PCs, but you don't seem to be fastening on PC creation as a special feature for RPGs)Here're two descriptions of other first sessions - one <a href="https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?736425-Burning-Wheel-First-Burning-Wheel-session" target="_blank">Burning Wheel</a>, one <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?490456-Repost-first-session-of-Dark-Sun-campaign" target="_blank">4e Dark Sun</a>. Neither had a scenario created in advance of playing the game. Both used setting and genre elements that we didn't make up ourselves (Greyhawk sword & sorcery, Dark Sun sword & planet), but in both cases the rules speak directly to that genre (the settings add proper names and some background - I could have made that up if I had too, as in the other two games) and you haven't told us yet what your theory of genre is. (Setting up a wargame involves deciding wherther its 30 Years War or Napolenoic or whatever, doesn't it?)Here's an account of <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?652393-Prince-Valiant-RPG-played-a-session-today" target="_blank">a Prince Valiant session</a> I played not much more than a week ago. No set up - I opened the books, the players made PCs, we started things off, I dipped into the books for scenarios (really more like scenes or situations) when I needed them and made stuff up when I needed to.I think Moldvay Basic gives a misleading impression on this point. It is giving advice on how to run a particular sort of RPG - classic dungeoneering - which generally requires a predrawn, pre-stocked maze (though <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?510873-Played-AD-amp-D-yesterday-(using-Appendix-A-for-a-random-dungeon)" target="_blank">it can be done with random charts</a>, the quality may be mixed). But not all RPGing is maze- or puzzle-solving.</blockquote>

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