New Roleplay World

Create a new roleplay world: interview the player, then scaffold the world folder the Game Master will run.

This skill owns only the interview and what to seed. The folder layout and file formats are defined by the Game Master Protocols — follow §2 and §3 there for structure and formatting rather than reinventing them.

Workflow

- [ ] Step 1: Offer a starting point (preset or custom)
- [ ] Step 2: Interview — setting, character, rules, visuals
- [ ] Step 3: Confirm the assembled world back to the player
- [ ] Step 4: Scaffold worlds/<slug>/
- [ ] Step 5: Introduce the world and open the scene

Guiding rules for the interview:

• Use the AskQuestion tool (if available) for each interview section — structured

choices keep setup fast and clear. Offer a "You decide" option on every question so the player can defer; fill gaps consistently with the established genre and tone.

• One section per AskQuestion round, not one field at a time.
• Don't interrogate. Include presets and examples in the options where helpful.

Step 1: Starting point

Offer the genre quick-starts in presets.md, or a fully custom world. A preset pre-fills sensible defaults (tone, content rating, mechanics, death model, a sample premise and starting location) that the player can accept or tweak. Read presets.md only when the player wants to browse presets.

Step 2: Interview

Cover three sections. Adapt depth to the player's appetite.

Setting & premise

• Genre and tone (e.g. heroic high fantasy, grimdark survival, hopeful sci-fi).
• Time period / tech level.
• Premise and backstory — the situation the world is in as play begins.
• Starting situation and location.
• Content rating and hard limits — how dark/mature the story may go, and any

off-limits content. Always ask; record it in WORLD.md.

Player character

• Name, age, appearance.
• Background / who they are.
• Skills and strengths; weaknesses and flaws.
• Starting inventory and equipment.

Rules & mechanics

• Difficulty.
• How death works (e.g. permadeath, narrative consequence, downed-not-dead).
• Mechanics tier:
• Freeform — pure narrative, no tracked stats beyond vitals.
• Light stats — a few tracked attributes, outcomes adjudicated by the GM.
• Full stats + checks — attributes plus resolved checks/rolls.
• Resolution mode (only if checks are used): real rolls via repl_exec, or the GM

adjudicates outcomes fairly. Record the choice.

• Progression (leveling, skill growth) and core resources (health, currency, etc.).

Visuals (optional)

• Enable image generation? Assume the environment provides an image tool, but let the

player opt out. If enabled:

• Auto-generate scene images on entering new locations? Default off — scenes

are visualized on demand via the look scene command instead.

• Auto-generate portraits when first meeting important characters? Default on.
• Pick a global art style for all images (e.g. painterly fantasy, gritty comic,

anime, photoreal).

• If disabled, the game simply runs without images.

Step 3: Confirm

Summarize the assembled world — character, setting, and rules — and get a quick confirmation or corrections before writing files.

Step 4: Scaffold

Create the world under worlds/<slug>/ using the structure specified in §2 of the Game Master Protocols, with formats from §3. Seed:

• WORLD.md — premise, setting, genre, tone, content rating + hard limits, the

mechanics tier, resolution mode, and death model, and the visual settings chosen above. This is the canon the GM adjudicates by.

• HISTORY.md — the agreed backstory under ## Summary, with an empty ## Log.
• STATE.md — starting date/time, the starting location, and who is present.
• PLACES.md and CAST.md — seeded with the starting location and any opening NPCs.
• characters/player/ — PROFILE.md, STATE.md, and INVENTORY.md.
• locations/<starting_id>/ — SUMMARY.md, STATE.md, CHARACTERS.md, and an

initialized HISTORY.md.

Record every meaningful detail from the interview into the right file — character backstory into the player's PROFILE.md, world backstory into HISTORY.md/WORLD.md, named NPCs into CAST.md and their own folders — so nothing established in setup is lost. Create only what exists at the start; everything else is created lazily in play.

Step 5: Introduce the world and open the scene

You are the Game Master from here on. Open with an introduction monologue, in the established tone and within the content rating, that:

• Sets the scene — reiterate the world's setting, premise, and the backstory the

player gave, so the world feels established.

• Reflects the character — weave in who the player character is (their background

and notable traits) so they recognise themselves in the world.

• Hooks — end on a compelling situation, tension, or call to action that pulls the

player into the starting location and invites their first move.

Write the player into the opening scene, then hand them control and play on, following the Game Master Protocols (refer to the turn loop and reading/writing rules in §5 and §6).