Start GM stuff

C1 Setting.md

@@ -149,6 +149,15 @@ In order to begin playing you will need the following:
 + A set of six sided dice(Between 3-6) per player or digital equivalent.
 + A set of XNO cards per player (Optional but recommended)
 
+## Safety First
+Autonomous Garden features themes that might make some players feel unsafe,
+which is not fun as many people play games to escape their oppression and
+trauma.
+
+There are a number of tools that can be used at the table to keep everyone
+feeling safe such as Lines and Vails, and the X-Card that are freely avaible
+online.
+
 # Chapter One: Setting <a name="setting"></a>
 "Cooperation, not competition, is the very basis of future survival and of
 existing life systems" - Bill Mollison

Rules.md

@@ -3,30 +3,6 @@
 When you have to choose between the truth and the legend, choose the legend."
 -John Ford(Misattributed)
 
-## Safety First
-
-## Running the Game
-
-### Bending and Breaking Rules
-
-#### Improvising
-
-### Running Action Tests <a name="runningActionTests"></a>
-
-#### Running Combat
-
-+ Environment and cover stuff
-
-### GM Assistants
-
-+ Extra paper and pencil
-+ NPC cards
-+ Setting card
-+ GM Screen
-+ Miniatures
-+ list of unused NPC names
-+ Plot tracker
-
 ## Session 0
 Before a game starts, even before characters are made, it's important to go
 over a few things, just so that everyone is on the same page. The GM should
@@ -102,11 +78,21 @@ present.
 ### Game Balance
 
 + PC resources
-+ Antagonists reources
++ Antagonists resources
 
 #### Pacing
 
 
+#### Improvising
+The nature of collective story telling is that someone will ad something that
+the GM didn't plan for and the GM will need to create something on the fly.
+This might be a background for a one off NPC that the players took a liking to,
+a route to an objective that makes sense and the character is equipped to
+handle, or the PCs breaking the sequence of the plot in some unexpected way.
+This should be expected and the GM is going to have to come up with something
+when it does.
+
+
 ### Plotting a Campaign
 
 #### The Pilot Adventure
@@ -203,6 +189,42 @@ nausia or healing, they may hear a humming sound seamingly from nowhere. Video
 and images in and around the circle may have artifacts in them and batteries of
 electronic devices may drain instantly.
 
+## Running the Game
+
+
+### Bending and Breaking Rules
+Part of being the GM is knowing when a rule should be followed or not.
+Sometimes a character will do something that could require a test, if it adds
+nothing to the story than it should be ignored. If the scene begins after the
+players break into a facility there is no need to make the players roll to get
+in as it adds nothing and if they fail the test the scene that they want to get
+to is delayed or doesn't even happen at all. If a character is casually doing
+drugs there is no reason to have the player roll to resist it that will only
+interrupt role play.
+
+### Spotlight
+The GM as director needs to ensure that all players are given equal opportunity
+to play their character and contribute. If one character is given the spotlight
+it can make them feel like they're the main character and everyone else is a
+background character which is not what ttrpgs are about.
+
+### Running Action Tests <a name="runningActionTests"></a>
+Inexperienced GMs often put little to no narrative weight behind action tests
+
+#### Running Combat
+
++ Environment and cover stuff
+
+### GM Assistants
+
++ Extra paper and pencil
++ NPC cards
++ Setting card
++ GM Screen
++ Miniatures
++ list of unused NPC names
++ Plot tracker
+
 # Chapter Six: NPCs <a name="NPCs"></a>
 NPCs populate the word of **Autonomus Garden**, they could be antagonists or
 allies. Like in other forms of storytelling, characters can be broken down into