SG World Building

Preparing To World Build
There just needs to be at least one World Builder for your Your Chronicle Setting but there doesn't need to be just one. Everyone in the starting troupe can be a World Builder and should input into the Sandbox of Consent and Code of Conduct at the very least. But if everyone else in your starting troupe prefers to have limited creative input until Game Zero so there's one just person tasked with world building? That is fine too. Thereafter, everyone will be adding to the chronicle setting with every personal character (PC) they make and every scene they co-write.

As a World Builder (WB) or team of World Builders, it is a good idea to "invest at least one week with a decent amount of free time to creating your initial chronicle setting" before setting a date for Game Zero for even a really small private (2-3 player) storygame. You will want to take at least month for a large public (6+ starting player) storygame because that will require not just a chronicle world, but a well-written Code of Conduct and the election of a Storygame Moderator (Mod) before or at Game Zero. Moderators are necessary in large public games to make sure the Sandbox of Consent and Code of Conduct are being followed and help resolve player disputes in a reasonable manner via intervention and mediation. Building and maintaining a large public Storygame chronicle is not for the faint of heart or easily frazzled.

In designing and then presenting both your setting and your social contract, we highly recommend using Google Docs for initial, shareable text files in a chronicle folder as well as a voice/text chat app like Discord. An Archivist should be elected before or during Game Zero and be in charge of the Storygame Wiki and the chronicle folder thereafter.

What Is Game Zero?
Game Zero is a concept we borrowed from Greek & Sundry. Vey

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