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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7922053" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't get this. The rules of baseball don't tell you where to hit the ball, or how hard. Nor (I assume - I know cricket but not baseball) where to place all the fielders. Nor where to throw the ball if there are two players running. Those are all creative/tactical decisions made by the players. That's what makes it a game rather than a ritual. (Though even many rituals allow for adaptation or interpretation to some degree at least.)I can tell you that I read out the rules - 2 A4 sides - while one of the other group members got us some food. Then I said "How about Boston c 1930" and the others said that was fine. Then the players chose their PCs - that's a name, a job and a description. Then I described a starting situation - given that one of the PCs was a law-firm secretary, one a journalist and one a longshoreman I decided that that was the secretary having to deliver some documents to the docks, where we went on collectively to establish that the journalist happened to be investigating issues about a freight company while the longshoreman was arguing with his superior. (Or something like that - it's a while ago now.)How is that not reading the rules and then playing the game?EDIT:No one designed a campaign/setting before we played Cthulhu Dark. Nor In a Wicked Age - as per the rules of the game, we consulted The Oracles to find out what was happening in our Wicked Age.When we started our Classic Traveller game I rolled up a starting world after the players rolled up their PCs, and then rolled on the random patron table. The rules aren't silent on these matters - they support both the processes I just described.When we started our first Cortex+ Heroic Fantasy games, I had written up 5 pregen PCs following the directions in the Marvel Heroic RP rulebook as influenced by the Cortex+ Hacker's Guide. I deliberately wrote them to suit either Vikings or Samurai. The players voted Vikings, and so we started and worked out what was happening in their village such that they got sent on a mission to the north.Once we had agreed the PCs were heading north, I describe some stuff, including a giant wooden steading. There were Scene Distinctions specified. That's what the rules tell the GM to do. It's part of playing the game. It's not some weird thing where we do some precursor to play while playing.</blockquote>

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