Welcome to StoryCrafter.com, the Online Interactive Storytelling Community!

Storycrafter.com enables people from all over the globe to collaborate on interactive stories and online role-playing games through our play-by-post forums.

Because the site was designed as a place to host interactive stories and online role-playing games we built into it a number of unique features.

Please take a moment to read over some of the features of storycrafter.com and decide if it is right for you.

Player Features:

Private Message System - the private message system allows you to interact with other members in a story and the story crafter behind the scenes. You can use this for in-game collaboration or for clarifications or any out of character discussions.

Character Manager - you can create and manage as many characters as you like. Once you send them on auditions and they are accepted into the cast of a story you can use the character watch list to conveniently notify you when your story has been updated and new material exist for you to read.

Game Message Board - each story has it's own private forum section in the story itself. These posts are generally out of character and are displayed on the homepage of the story. Most people use these general forums to communicate with the cast outside the structured story acts.

Story Acts - any given story can any number of acts going on at a given time. These are different places in a story actions are taking place. Cast members can post new actions and dialog in any acts they have access to see.

Rich Edit Controls - players have access to a rich edit control that allows them to define the appearance of their post. Some options include, fonts, colors, highlighting, bold, italics, and underline. In addition this rich edit control is compatible with Microsoft Word; most formatting is preserved when copying from Word to storycrafter.com.

Character Sheets - players can manage each character on their character sheet. Character sheets define public information and private information only the storycrafter and player have access to.

Character Images - players can select from a large repository of available images or upload one of his or her own choosing.

StoryCrafter / Game Master Features:

Casting Calls - the storycrafter can indicate he or she is looking for new cast members thus enabling other members to audition for various roles in his or her story. Once they close down auditions no more members may apply.

Image Archive - the story crafter can upload and manage images in their story image archive for use in their story. Images can include maps, characters, scenes, or anything that might help to tell set the scene.

Cast Controls - In addition to the ability to hire and fire cast members, you can create your own characters and add them to your stories cast. Cast is divided into main and supporting roles to more easily identify key players. With storycrafter.com's unique cast system you can play NPC's as though they were real players thus setting up impacting storyline events.

Co-Story Crafter - you can promote a cast member to near equal authority in your story, allowing him or her to share your storycrafter responsibilities. Don't worry though, no one but you can delete the story or take away your ultimate storycrafter power.

Simple Image Controls - in addition to the standard rich edit controls players have storycrafters have a simple control that gives them the ability to easily insert any images uploaded to their image archive into their post. They can even drag and drop the image inside the post or resize it on the fly.

Story Themes - choose from a wide variety of story themes to help set the mood for your players.

Contextual Admin - admin features like editing post, or deleting messages are displayed in context of the normal use. This is much simpler than a separate admin panel.

Prologue and System - each story has these two primary sections so that the story crafter can easily define the premise and rules for the story.

Dice Roller - many games require dice. Story crafter has a built-in dice roller to facilitate dice rolls. Each act can be enabled to receive dice rolls by the characters. The dice roller supports most common formats.

Private / Public Acts - the storycrafter can set acts private to certain cast members. Cast members that do not have access will not be able to see or post in these acts. You can use this to split up groups, interact individually with cast members, or create secret acts only you can see to keep important information on hand at all times. Conversely public acts are available to all cast members to read and post and the public can read them.