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PTBA? Is this home brew?
Might be worth asking each player:
What are you hoping to achieve in this campaign?
What are some key people in your characters past that you’d like to see again?
Not homebrew, it's actually Defenders Almanac (which isn't really PbtA, but kind of similar mechanics). I asked them what they wanted out of the game, so there's broader goals that I took notes on. I should try to translate that into specific in-campaign goals (there's already a broad setting goal - defeat the mechs).
GM being good GM is good.
The reason I added the second question is so you could bring back NPCs from characters past to have the player go through different thoughts and try to influence change