That doesn’t suggest the GM is out to get you. in this complete approach, in particular personality production, ask questions. search for fascinating evidence proven through the characters’ bonds, strikes, periods, and outlines and ask approximately these issues. Be curious! whilst a person mentions the demons that slaughtered their village discover extra approximately them. in any case, you don’t have whatever (except perhaps a dungeon) and every little thing they offer you is gas for destiny adventures. 178 Also concentrate on the gamers’ questions. whilst mechanical questions arise solution them. whilst questions of atmosphere or fiction arise your top guess is to show these questions round. while a participant says, “Who is the King of Torsea,” say, “I don’t be aware of. who's it? what's he like? ” Collaborate together with your avid gamers. Asking a query potential it’s whatever that pursuits them so paintings with them to make the solutions attention-grabbing. Don’t be afraid to assert, “I don’t comprehend” and ask them a similar questions. interact to discover an exquisite and fascinating solution. If you’ve come to the desk with a few rules approximately stuff you’d wish to see on the earth, percentage them with the avid gamers. Their characters are their accountability and the realm is yours—you’ve bought loads of say in what lives in it. if you'd like the sport to be a few hunt for the misplaced sorcerer-race of aeons prior, say so! If the avid gamers aren’t or they’re ill to demise of sorcerers, they’ll tell you and you may interact to discover another approach. You don’t want pre-approval for every little thing yet ensuring everyone seems to be serious about the wide strokes of the area is a brilliant begin. as soon as everybody has their characters created you could take a deep breath. glance again over the questions you’ve requested and responded thus far. you will have a few notes that may aspect you in the direction of what the sport could appear like. examine what the avid gamers have delivered to the desk. glance to the tips that’ve been stewing away on your head. It’s time for the journey to start! 179 The First event the 1st event is absolutely approximately gaining knowledge of the course that destiny periods will take. in the course of the first event retain your eye out for unresolved threats; be aware risky issues which are pointed out yet now not handled. those could be gasoline for periods to return. begin the consultation with a bunch of participant characters (maybe them all) in a annoying state of affairs. Use something that calls for motion: outdoor the doorway to a dungeon, ambushed in a fetid swamp, peeking throughout the crack in a door on the orc guards, or being sentenced sooner than King Levus. Ask questions correct away—“who is top the ambush opposed to you? ” or “what did you do to make King Levus so mad? ” If the placement stems at once from the characters and your questions, the entire greater. Here’s the place the sport starts off. The avid gamers will begin announcing and doing issues, this means that they’ll begin making strikes. For the 1st consultation you'll want to watch in particular rigorously for while strikes observe, till the avid gamers get the dangle of it. usually, within the early periods, the gamers might be so much cozy simply narrating their actions—this is ok.