The Director Welcomes You

The Cemetery Prosperity Incident

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Location

Breezy, Windless East Timor

Time of Day

9:14

Extraction Point

80 Miles E

Time to Complete

17 Hours

Detectives,
As you can see you are trapped inside enter a Desolate Palace . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "Italian Banshee" is responsible and they sent us this message - "A vagrant asks for money at the Ghost Town". Your mission was anti-surveillance, achieve what you can.

Hopefully you still have that Explosive Apron hidden on you.

— The Portable Radio you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Londyn Cunningham

Alias

"Italian Banshee"

Features

4' 1"

Hazel eyes

Stretch Marks / Crotch

Organization

The Company of Odd Engine

Emotions

Interested

Personality

Joshingly Smelly

Motive

Make a lot of money for honor

Bodyguard

Terry the "Shitty Goblins"

Physical Size

Gigantic

Story

Additional Locations

The Smelly Park

Compact Grove

Euphoria Citadel

Random Events

Crazy Man Evades the law

Carcass Calls menacingly

Lactose Intolerance Glistens gently

Bum emerges

World

Stores

Nolan's Sconce Productions

Santos's Glass Jars Labs

Curry's Key Market

Spencer's Coat Du jour

Traps

Phantasmal Killer

Razor-Wire across Hallway of Prosperity

Objects

Sconce that has been hollowed out

Key made of heavy metal

Secret Glass Jars

Hidden Longsword

Javelins of Prosperity

Wand of Wonder

Target is kidnapped to be used as a sacrifice by a religious cult

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Jayce Santos "Mini Bagels" Merchant Comic Books Coffee
Skylar Curry "Left Arms" Mole Flashlights Slippers
Axel Cannon Townsfolk Robots Video Games
Nolan Curtis Elder Doves Washing Machines
Luna Spencer Elevator Mechanic Rubber Stamps Shirts

Cipher



                

                
 
                

                

                

                

                

                

The Fuck Is This?

After years of playing Dungeons & Dragons, I decided to make a variation where everything is improv. The DM knows as much as the players and you tell a story together - sitcom style. We use this site as a quest starter, think of some characters, and see how much we can make each other laugh.

It's designed to be simple, portable, and dependent on being creative & inventive. I wanted a framework to guide the plot forward but let us find the story. This page is just a guide to help the stories become too redundant - take as much as you want, ignore as much as you need. If you want to follow along with our adventures or read some examples, check out my personal story notes.

This concept and site was crafted by Andrew Maruska with linguistic help from Evan Stark

But how?

The Most Important Rule

Be Silly. The goal is to laugh not to have a normal adventure. Someone wants to go to the moon? Fuck yeah they do and we're going to do it with medieval technology.

Set Up

Give the players a home base, a year they want to play in, and some general ownership of the setup. It's more successful when everyone has helped create the world because when a player makes suggestions it's easier to integrate them without feeling too precious. It helps to have a figurehead that assigns the quest to authoritatively start.

Characters

90% of creating a character here is a funny voice you're forced to talk in for 3 hours. I typically have people pick one trait they want to be good at and give them a slight advantage when using that - and the same for a negative trait. Don't overcomplicate it. They wanna be a skateboarder who can't feel love? perfect. +2 to cool & -2 to social acceptance.

Rolling

This can be whatever you want but as a general rule I use d20's as a graded scale. Sometimes, I craft the roll to mimic the action i.e. if they are walking a tight rope then might need to roll a 10 because 20 & 1 make them fall to one side or the other. Rolling in D&D got boring so make it fun again.

Dungeon Master

Your goal is to say 'Yes and...' but realistically it's 'Yes and roll to see if you can actually do that triple backflip down the cliff to mount the attacking phoenix...' - It's okay to make them fail, just don't tell them no. This guide is to help you be 1 step ahead of the players but it can't know the vibe of the room, have some empathy and play to the crowd.

Ending

No one can tell you this. The guide is to help you get 1/3 of the adventure set up and the rest will be created by the adventuring party. Have fun with it and try to tie up some loose ends at the end (or don't and bring them back for another adventure).