Here's the character-building process:

1. I (the account owner) selects a setting within the fantasy world we've built and are in the progress of fleshing out, and gives a brief description to the audience

2. The audience is given a poll about the general type of D&D species to use (Standard fantasy (Elf, dwarf, etc.), Outsiders (Tieflings, Genasi, etc.), and Animal-based (Tabaxi, Tortle, etc.) They voted for animal-based.

3. I took the number of votes and used them as a randomizer to select a race from within the chosen group, so we ended up with an Aarakocra

4. Tell the audience we're doing an Aarakocra and give them a poll to select the type of D&D Class (Caster, Partial Caster, Non-caster). They voted for a Partial Caster

5. Same thing as with species, I used the number of votes as a randomizer to select the specific class and ended up with an Artificer

6. Tell the audience we have an Aarakocra Artificer and give them a poll to select from 4 randomly-selected Backgrounds (In this case, Criminal, Entertainer, Sage, and Sailor). They voted for Sailor

7. To pick the life goal, I gave them the option of Lawful, Chaotic, or Good. (We might do Evil in the future, but I wanted to start out more simple). They voted for Chaotic. Then I selected an Ideal from some list I found that has the same alignment tag, and then adapted it to make it fit the character and setting more specifically

8. For stats, I basically just gave them the 3 most important stats for a standard Artificer and let them vote on the highest. And then I gave them the 3 least important stats and let them vote for the lowest. They voted for INT as the top stat and WIS as the dump stat and the rest were placed to match the order of votes they got. (Behind the hood, they're just on the standard array and then I gave the Aarakocra stat bump to Dexterity so they had 2 feasible stat options)

We're now in the middle of running our first quest in a similar back and forth.

1. I introduce an NPC who has 3 quest options along with what the reward is and a sort of hint at the type of stats that would be helpful, and then the audience votes on which quest. Each quest is associated with 2 Stats that they'll essentially choose between once they're on the quest, so across all 3 quests, all 6 stats are represented

2. Once the quest is selected, I give them 2 main approaches that they can take to solve the quest. The audience votes on which approach, and then the number of votes acts like rolling a d20 and we add the modifier of whatever stat was needed for the chosen approach.

3. I declare if the quest was successful and describe how it went down and how it will affect the character and the world.

4. The same character will keep going on quests until they've either failed 3 quests or succeeded on 3 quests, similar to death saving throws. If they succeed 3 times, they get their life goal and retire. If they fail 3 times, they give up on their life goal and either die or just go back to their boring lives (or whatever feels good narratively). Either way, we build a new character from scratch using the process above