Session Zero Questions

Questions to ask the players:

• Content Wants/Dispreferrences/Bans
• Desired Campaign Length
• Desired Campaign Tier (A/C/E)
• Desired Tone (Gritty vs. Heroic), Themes
• Desired Combat Difficult
• Desired Combat Tactical Depth (Smart enemies?)
• Desired Combat Frequency (See 'Fast Pace!' below)
• Desired Freedom (Railroad vs. Sandbox)
• Desired Location/Breadth (One-city vs. Planar)

Questions for players to ask themselves:

• Party composition?
• Do you want to play if one player cannot make it? If two cannot?
• What icon do you want as a shared enemy?
• What sort of villain do you want? (Complex vs. straightforward evil)
• Do you prefer NPCs to be mostly trustworthy, or more conniving?
• What sorta alt-rules or homebrews do we want?
  • Only Meaningful Deaths
  • Talent-swapping with other classes
  • Dual classing

Topics to inform the players on:

• Economy is pretty squishy
• Magic item cadence. GM-picked, one every couple of levels, suggestions encouraged
• Icon benefits. Spend one to:
  • Have a friend nearby,
  • Have a friend agree to do something,
  • Confound an enemy,
  • Get a single-use magic item,
  • Learn something true,
  • Or anything else you can think of!
• Fast pace! I like to run two combats per session, every third session no combat.
• You are allowed to switch out talents, powers, and feats if you aren't having fun with them.