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Agenda

• Portray a bustling, diverse, cosmopolitan metropolis
• Fill the characters’ lives with schemes and intrigue
• Play to find out what happens

Principles

• Address the characters, not the players
• Embrace the urban and the cosmopolitan
• Test their connection to the city
• Make a move that follows
• Never speak the name of your move
• Give every character a routine
• Name every person
• Ask questions and use the answers
• Be a fan of the characters
• Think dangerous
• Begin and end with the fiction
• Think offscreen, too
• Imply machinations behind the scenes

Moves

• Turn up the Heat
• Reveal a rival or a Tie
• Disrupt someone’s routine
• Put them in conflict with their faction
• Have the city betray them
• Make offers they can’t refuse
• Take them to a new neighborhood
• Reveal a mysterious aspect of the city
• Issue a request from an unlikely place
• Reveal unwanted attention – the public, a rival faction, or a powerful person
• Reveal an unwelcome truth
• Turn their move back on them
• Separate them
• Give an opportunity that fits their abilities
• Show a downside to their connection to the city
• Offer an opportunity, with or without cost
• Tell them the requirements or consequences and ask