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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9101563" data-attributes="member: 82106">We haven't really DONE anything yet, but so far so good. I mean this is not too far off from Dungeon World in some sense. IN THEORY DW doesn't presuppose ANY pre-existing fiction at all, but its not like the participants can't agree informally to the existence of Townshire and some facts about it. The only other difference is in terms of DW formally presenting bonds between the PCs, but nothing stops you from declaring the same sorts of things in vanilla d20 or whatever. DW ties them to XP, but I don't think that's absolutely critical.So, the question is what happens from there? In a classic DW game the GM will now frame the first scene, probably something that is drawn from, say, bond text. Like: "Oh, I see that the halfling believes the elf is weak and must be protected. As you step out the back door of the alehouse to relieve yourselves, a dark figure jumps the elf!" Now we're addressing the halfling's belief in his role as protector and associated assumptions about being a 'hard guy' and opinion of elves, etc. Maybe he's also got an alignment of 'Neutral: Avoid detection' and these appear to be the guys he wants to avoid (they will be, of course) then he's got a conflict between his interests. Leap into the fray to save the elf, or avoid detection and maybe infiltrate this dark figure's organization. Maybe at this point the GM asks a pointed question "why do you want to infiltrate this organization, who are they to you?" Notice how play is focused on character here. There's no considerations like the GM thinking of a list of organizations that he's invented which might be operating in Townshire and extrapolating action from that. No, its actually arising out of the nature of the characters themselves, and THEN some sort of 'world authoring' happens. Maybe at this point the GM has already got an idea for a front in mind, so he may mix in elements of that idea, its an Arc Assassin. They're dedicated to wiping out the elvish filth from the world! Whatever.</blockquote>

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