The Director Welcomes You

Chili, Pain, Splint, Spy.

#97b713

Location

Frigid, Bright North Macedonia

Time of Day

1:22

Extraction Point

99 Miles SSE

Time to Complete

30 Hours

Eyeballs,
We need your help. Agent Cameron Bowers has gone missing and we believe "Dull ghost" is responsible. They were last seen in North Macedonia at 21:24. The agent sent one final message – "An out of place door appears at the graveyard". Take this Polished Can Opener - it was their favorite tool and might help you.

— The Tinder Date you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Catherine Rojas

Alias

"Dull ghost"

Features

7' 4"

Brown eyes

Small mole / Right thumb

Organization

The Sisterhood of Drooping Splint

Emotions

Revulsion

Personality

Eventually Calamitous

Motive

Disrupt the military out of survival

Bodyguard

Roberto the "Panicky Spirit"

Physical Size

Minuscule

Story

Additional Locations

The Strungout Carousal

Desolate Reef

Ice Circus

Random Events

Tramp skins a cat with his teeth

Ninja Calls menacingly

Chicken is heard screaming

Princess is being loudly arrested

World

Stores

Eden's Glass Jars Collective

Bradley's Cabinet Solutions

Barrett's Quill and Ink Hole

Bowers's Hose Department store

Traps

Object Smeared with Poison

Flooded Corridor of Endownment

Objects

Glass Jars made of heavy metal

Quill and Ink children's replica

Secret Cabinet

Hidden Camera

Bracelet of Endownment

Wand of Wonder

Caster has a blood-sworn enemy in every town within 500 miles

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Willow Bradley "Tough Boy" Merchant Butterflies Glitter
Brooke Barrett "Little Legs" Mole Potatoes Attention
Judy Lowe Mechanic Baseball Sponges
Eden Peters Veterinarian Dinosaurs Lions
Cameron Bowers Journalist Slippers Rubber Bands

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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).