What kind of fictional premises have you found helpful for our usual #ttrpg stories that involve multiple protagonists? Besides the standard you-all-meet-in-a-tavern, invited-to-a-party, secret-guild-of-good-dooers, letter-from-a-distant-relative stuff that's a bit weak.
For example, in games like #NightWitches or #BlissStage we have the pilot-to-co-pilot approach. Doesn't matter if it's planes or mechas or, I don't know, submarines. The premise usually involves drama, rivalry and having to work as one cohesive physical unit.
Another is to split the traditional single protagonist into different facets that can be played with as a way to explore their inner world. While #BlueBeardsBride goes all in with it, #WraiththeOblivion does this by everyone having a Shadow personality played by another player.
A similar approach can be set up at the community level where you really try to tie the protagonists to a certain local human context that is in some kind of flux. In this case, we have something like #Kingdom going all-in while games like #MutantYearZero only dip their toes.
We can also go back to that "secret-guild-of-good-dooers" premise and make it much more powerful in terms of putting protagonists into interesting scenes by just changing it to "evil-dooers". There you have #Soth, my favorite game to play in quarantine 2020.
If you go even further yonder to where protagonists are always at each other's throats, a cast of rotating protagonists in an unforgiving world like #InAWickedAge can sustain a campaign when usually PvP fizzles out quickly.
The pirate ship premise can be an interesting mix for almost all of the above, although I'm not sure if you'd want it all in one game. You've got working together to operate a vessel, a community in constant flux, motley crew of wrong-doers and always the possibility of treachery
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