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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9808494" data-attributes="member: 42582">So is the answer to my question - how does the framing of scenes/establishing of situations work in your system? - the following (at least more-or-less)?*The GM builds (or borrows or purchases) a fantasy setting. *The GM thinks up one or more sequences of dramatic events/developments that are unfolding in this setting. *The GM begins the game by presenting the players with relatively low-stakes situations that their PCs are in, which contain hints of or allusions to the events/developments mentioned in the previous dot point. *The GM gradually introduces more overt elements into the immediate situation that are drawn from, or give expression to, the events/developments mentioned in the second dot point.That does leave me curious - while the game is at the beginning/early stage, what does the GM present as the primary content of scene/situations, if the dramatic events/developments are merely being hinted at or alluded to? You talk about "cues" and "direct[ing] players in a general direction" - but what is being cued? What direction are the players being directed in, if not to the dramatic events/developments? (Which you say does not happen until later, say level 5.)</blockquote>