But what I thought you were writing about based on the title is how what has become the de facto indie world building set up takes a huge chunk of time (that sort of social footprint). Generally PbtA con games spend nearly an hour on set up. It’s mostly good stuff, but it could be way streamlined. I look at Lady Blackbird for that. “Here’s the backstory, here’s your cool characters, now go.”

But that’s not what this thread is about! Sorry.