Troupe system

A troupe system is a way of playing role-playing games in which a group of players takes different roles at different times. The term was coined in Ars Magica, where it referred to each player using multiple characters and, crucially, sharing a pool of characters held in common by the entire group (referred to as the "troupe").^[1]^[2]

^ Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein*Hagen. Ars Magica, 2nd Edition, 1989
^ Laycock, Joseph (2015). Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-520-96056-5. OCLC 899156911.

[Ars_Magica-1] Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein*Hagen. Ars Magica, 2nd Edition, 1989

[2] Laycock, Joseph (2015). Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-520-96056-5. OCLC 899156911.

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