Let's play DnD. Dungeons and Dragons is a team storytelling game. As an effort to build community, I can think of nothing more perfect for a bunch of nerdy authors building a story together in a game format.
- Game theme: Art Deco-punk DnD. 1920s fantasy city with Dwarven Mobsters in pin strip suits and tommy guns. Don't mess with the Gutter fey because the Fairy Godfather will leave you with offer you can't refuse.
- System: 5e Dungeons and Dragons
- Legal books: Anything of the official content on DnDbeyond
-- No full casters (i.e. Bards, Clerics, Druids, Sorcerers, Wizards)
- Method of rolling stats: 2d6+6; no rerolls unless your stats added up are less than 75
- Starting level: 1
- Backstory requirements: 3 main bullets of events in your characters past that has defined as a person. Additionally 3 bullet points on things you want to see in the city.