Running the Game

• Ad Astra
  • The Elevator Pitch
  • The First Session
    • Using the Sample Character Teams
    • In Media Res
    • Tech Talk
  • Prepping Your Campaign
    • Where’s Home Base?
    • What’s Your Theme?
    • What’s Your Team Composition?
    • Creating Characters
• Scenarios & Campaigns
  • How Many Sessions?
  • Story Arcs
    • Basic Story Arc
    • Hot-Opening Story Arc
    • Slow Burn
  • Creating Scenarios
  • Character Tie-ins
  • Easing In
• Bringing It to Life
  • Social Media Dynamics
  • The Street Finds Its Own Uses
  • Fork Concerns
  • NPC Timelines
  • Recurring Villains
• Know Skills & Science
  • Known?
  • Frame the Question
  • Hypothesis and Prediction
  • Testing
  • Analysis
• Super-Empowered Characters
  • Logistics and Nanofabrication
  • Fork Hordes
  • Time Distortion
  • Let’s Nuke It
  • Puny Transhumans
  • Providing Outlets
• Gamemaster Tips
  • Tracking Backups
    • Handling Muses and ALIs
    • Gear ALIs Are Hyper-Focused
    • Setting ALIs
    • Muses
    • Playing Each Other’s Muses and ALIs
    • When ALIs Go Egg-Shaped
  • Skill Use
    • Ongoing Actions
    • Group Tests
    • PCs with Better Social Skills than Their Players
  • Diverging from Canon
  • In-Play Worldbuilding
  • Play Culture & Behavior
  • Maps
• Transhuman Themes
  • Watching Boundaries
  • Philosophical Futureshock
  • Safety Procedures
    • Using X-Cards
    • Safewords
  • Campaign Themes
    • Survival vs. Growth
    • Optimism vs. Dystopia
    • Politics
    • Personhood
    • Singularity Creeps vs. Everything
    • Betrayal
    • Humor
• Rez & Rep Rewards
  • Rez Points
    • Rez Point Rewards
    • Individual vs. Group Rewards
    • Adjusting the Advancement Rate
    • Rez Points and Forks
    • Rez Points and Resleeving
  • Reputation Gain and Loss
    • Rep Consequences
    • Rep Score Boosts
    • Rep Score Hits