What setting-creation questions do you ask your players, preferably things that are relevant to their playbook?
For example:
To the Driver: What terrain separates hardholds around here, and what preys upon the weak and unwary between hardholds?
What setting-creation questions do you ask your players, preferably things that are relevant to their playbook?
What setting-creation questions do you ask your players, preferably things that are relevant to their playbook?
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Here’s a few setting-facing Qs:
Angel: who’s caused the most havoc for you in the past?
Brainer: who does the Psychic Maelstrom love?
Battlebabe: who do you relish a chance to embarrass or have a showdown with?
Chopper: what’s the gang’s favourite watering hole?
Driver: who pays over the odds for deliveries?
Gunlugger: what gang out there scares you?
Hardholder: who’ve you gone to war with before and what threatens the peace?
Hocus: what cult did yours break away from?
Savvyhead: who’s got the best supply of junk and where do they get it all?
Skinner: what patron believes in beauty; do they want to control or cultivate it?
Sometimes it’s fun to ask questions that seem unrelated…
Angel: Who would you kill if you had the chance?
Brainer: What do you fear most about the Psychic Maelstrom?
Battlebabe: Who do you show gentleness to?
Chopper: Who in your gang do you distrust but need?
Driver: Where were you brought up?
Gunlugger: Where do you find solace?
Hardholder: What nobody did you show mercy towards and raise in social standing?
Hocus: What part of your beliefs are a lie to yourself and others?
Savvyhead: What topic are you clueless about?
Skinner: What do you hate about yourself?
Tony Ferron definitely!
Maestro’D:
What are the top three sources of lux… and who controls access?
What about your next door neighbor’s pet, do you adore but irritates you?
Faceless:
Which posters of pre-fall people do you despise… which one’s does your mask adore?
How many naked mannequins have you counted in the area?
Quarantine:
What lost pop-culture resonance did you first recognize after emerging into the ruins… and what state of decay was it in?
Name a song that irritates you, when you hear people singing it incorrectly.
Grotesque:
When you see a flower, what poem or limerick usually comes to mind?
What was the most valued comfort item (plushie, blanket, bobble-head, rubber squeaky, rag puppet, pretty iridescent tchotchke… etc…) you ever possessed… and what was it’s name?
Also fun to ask questions that cause curve-balls and elicit expositions.
hmm… these might be a little closer to what you had in mind?
Scholar:
What is one yearly ceremony or celebration that is important to you?
How are your records kept — tally sticks, beads, clay tablets, parchment, computer disks, four-dimensional crystal-lattice trinkets?
Ruin Runner:
Who most likely still has access, to what level of basic technologies, like; mobile phones, TVs or radios, intelligent carrier drones, or nano-biochip augmented intelligence domestic animals?
How much smuggling is there? Of what, from or to where?
Rat Pack:
How many other imps and sprouts know about, but avoid your pack… and why?
What pastimes are common among under-worked orphans and urchins:- hawking, hunting, street skiing, baseball, chess, dice, poker, street improvisation, general foolery, or counting coup… etc…?