> You don’t need to tell people to tip toe around someone’s dad having died because that’s a generally recognized social norm. No, but I do need to tell them t

> You don’t need to tell people to tip toe around someone’s dad having died because that’s a generally recognized social norm. No, but I do need to tell them that my dad died in order for them to know. Otherwise, the GM just might bring my PC's dad up out of the past, and kill him in front of my PC again. That's all that "the form" or Session Zero is. It's explicitly laying out things that you may be sensitive to, so that the rest of the group can continue to behave in that general, objective social norm you're talking about. It's a way for them to let me know that their dog died last week, so that I know that the first combat of the first session shouldn't be fighting a bunch of guard hounds.