I tend to think that educating oneself about these sorts of things will make it easier to think of game-able situations, as well make improvising within the context easier, as well as enable one to drop enjoyable color.

E.g., I started re-reading the Great Wolf life paths and am now thinking I really need to read up on wolves… and now Paul has me thinking I need to read up on real-world wolf habitats and the people they might contain, i.e., I need to set a wolf game in the midst of .