System Mechanics & Character Creation

Storygame System Overview
Storygame is a "rules-lite" system. It was specifically designed to support text-based, online roleplay. In Storygame, players collaboratively build a setting and then write stories together using that setting in text documents or chat/forum posts. Each individual story is called a scene. Scenes are composed of  posts that describe what one or more personal characters are experiencing, thinking, feeling, and doing. The players use their applicable personal characters' sheets and the Event Die mechanics as it suits them to help shape what happens during the scene.

Storygame Troupes
A group of players that storygame together in a shared setting is called a troupe. Storygame provides suggestions and tools for troupes to treat each other in friendly, civil ways. How players treat each other and self-moderate themselves IC and OOC is considered more important to a successful Storygame chronicle than a precise way to calculate how much damage characters can deal or withstand. To that end, before any actual roleplay writing commences, each troupe should a written Sandbox of Consent that establishes what WON'T be included in everyone's shared roleplay and a Code of Conduct that is a written agreement of how troupe members will talk/type to one another and what happens when someone intentionally or unintentionally fails to live up to that expectation.

Character Templates
As part of World-Building, the troupe creates character templates for every character type they specifically want at that start of the chronicle. These are blank or sample character sheets that everyone will be able to copy and use to design their own sheets for personal characters.

Character Types
The chronicle's genre and Sandbox of Consent will give the World Builders guidance on what character types to build templates for. Every PC and support character will belong to one of the character types. The more diverse the playable races and/or character types found in a chronicle setting, the more character templates will be required for Session Zero. Later, when any troupe member wants to add a new character type to the chronicle, they design a new template and submit it to troupe vote. If accepted, all players can make characters of that type thereafter. Individual players create and manage the character sheets for their personal characters but character templates belong to the troupe. Character types within a chronicle are measured against each other by Echelon.