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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9691601" data-attributes="member: 7044099"><a href="https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/making-good-flags/" target="_blank">Flags are "game mechanics which explicit aspects of a character designed for players to tell the GM what kind of stories and conflicts they want for their characters"</a> (link to a really good blog from the guy who largely introduced the concept to the discourse).They're super common and basically baked into all PBTA/FITD games, stuff as basic as your Playbook selection starts determining where the story/play/themes/opposition is going to go. You often add in extra stuff like Bonds, Instincts, Beliefs, relationships, etc that say to the GM "hey, this crap matters to my character - I want you to bring it up as scenes are framed so I can react/evolve/quail under/etc them."My personal favorite tends to be what the blog calls out under Ideals. I really like to see a player identify a fairly straightforward Thing that has meaning to their character that they want to see tested. I've found over the last 300ish hours of play that this leads to much more interesting internal & external character development; clear around-the-table understanding of where people are coming from; and some really fun conflict between beliefs (the most recent being last night where a player with the Belief "I will do anything to protect my friends" and another one with the belief "Goodness is constrained by strict moral lines" and a third with "Doing what is right is less important then saving those I love" all had quite a scene over how to deal with a fanatical militant pursuer).</blockquote>

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