Does anyone have a good set of questions to ask a group of players to collaboratively create a setting? I'm familiar with the Freebooters of the Frontier method for fantasy but I want something more genre-neutral.
I think this is perfect for MM since it can handle most everything out of the box.
Not sure what you mean by "genre-neutral" here. Do you mean not medieval fantasy?
ReplyDeleteYes, everything including fantasy, sci-fi, post-apoc, Victorian, ice age, whatever.
ReplyDeleteI don't think genre neutral questions will give you what you want - you'll always need to drill down into it to make it interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'd check out Fate Core for how they do this, or even better, check out Spark and A Spark in Fate Core from Jason Pitre
Universalis worked well for us.
ReplyDeleteOuf ot the box, MM will handle universes where rolling an ox, a muskeet or a saddle bag makes sense...
ReplyDeleteYeah... I'd agree with Aaron on this: generic questions aren't going to help with genre specific world building. If it were me, I'd find the pbta game closest aligned to the genre and steal its world building questions.
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ReplyDeleteYou may want to take a look at Microscope. I find that by filling in a timeline, it leads to a lot of the setting being fleshed out.
ReplyDeletePierre M For me, the only thing that changes is the equipment lists. You fudge Magical Training into whatever you need genre-wise. Jedi Training, Psi Training, Cyberdeck Training, etc.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on Star Wars equipment lists.
Have you seen this list of questions? https://docs.google.com/document/d/12zEqPivkfBjsLq5xk_Z0rMmhd0ihxMvWoZApFMcGtzI/edit
ReplyDeleteSharp Swords & Sinister Spells (the core book and the addendum) has lots of fun tables for between-adventure and random life events, and for adventure ideas.
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