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[wiglaf]

The "how do you?" part - If someone is set up as a principle author, do they have as much freedom as the story crafter? That is, can they look at characters, manage threads, be cut out of private threads?

The looking for interest part - I'm thinking of a story where everyone runs multiple characters (hence the need to make everyone a PA).  You've got the main character who is a spy/superhero/vampire pretending to be human or whatever the genre turns out to be and then two or three NPC's who are normal people that you play with as much vigor as you do your main character.   You know every character's public identities but only know the secret identities of the other characters on your side/team/clan/whatever.

Would anyone be interested in something like this?
If so, what genres would people prefer?

[Merzedes]

As far as I have been able to determine, PA's have all the power of the SC except they cannot access the join the cast option and accept new players. They cannot be cut out of any thread, and they can see all characters public and private information and post AS them.

However it is now possible for the SC to create a character, add it to the story and assign it to an active player. If a player quits, their character, if not deleted, can be assigned to another active player. I don't know what the limit is, but that would allow for one person playing multiple parts and not having SC access.

[argyle2001]

An SC can assign two additional roles to a non-PA writer.

The Founder added this function when he was running a story titled The Argus Institute.  There was a character whose power was to spawn miniature drone bodies, any of which would need to be written as a separate character from the player's main role.  If TF-SC had made the player a PA, it would have granted him access to things he should not have been allowed to see, and could have really screwed up the game.

As solutions go, that one would have been worse than the problem itself.

But this was The Founder, who has powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal StoryCrafters.  If he didn't like the choices available to him, he'd just have to make another one.

[Shell]

I'm really new to Storycrafter. I play a literary RP on FB but it's not really a game where you gain powers, or points or whatever. So no need to hide information. We just like to write LOL! We have an admin staff (I guess they would be the storycrafters) of three people. There are no such things as a principle author so I am uncertain of what their role is on this site.  However, I would still be interested in a vampire or superhero type story and develping a character for that sometime in the future. I would just need a little help with the other aspects of the game. 

Shell

[wiglaf]

I've played arround with the assigning characters function and this could work.

Step 2 - Interest.  I have had extremely poor luck getting people to join, stay or participate in stories.  By nature it would be hard to SC this while keeping secret identities a secret if a bunch of people join who expect to just follow the SC's lead without talking to each other.  It would also run better with more than just two people joining (a little easy to guess who's who if there's only one other player).

Sparking interest would include choosing the right genre and developing a good plot around it.  I like many different genres, though I like to throw my own twist in them; patterning  vampires after another game's canon of vampirism or trying to copy television shows isn't as fun as setting off to create my own story-verse.  My likes and dislikes, however, do not guarantee getting players, so what kind of genre would people be interested in if they were to join a game like this.

One thing to point out is that while people would be submitting multiple characters in one application, until the story gets started only one of their characters would appear in the cast (that or I'd notify them privately that they've been accepted and not add any characters to the cast until things were ready to start).  There is little or no point to trying to have people run multiple characters, one of which is trying to hide their identity, if you can easily tell which characters are being played by which players just by keeping track of the order players were accepted and characters were added.