I'm getting ready for game day.

Our group has selected a game we'd like to play. We start a conversation before the game to determine where to play in an already established setting. Plus we create our characters together and tie them into a unit of people that can trust one another (and they secretly tell me, the GM, what the players want in the game)!

Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 cover, inspiration for a futuristic New York City that we didn't go with.

Dresden Files RPG, where we stole some character creation ideas.