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The Mealy Seed Thriller
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Meddlers, We need your help. Agent Emmanuel Ford has gone missing and we believe "Blue Kaiju" is responsible. They were last seen in The Bahamas at 05:24. The agent sent one final message – "A stranger can be seen in the shadows at the Where grass will not grow". Take this Mechanical Screwdriver - it was their favorite tool and might help you.
— The Origami Swan you were holding self destructs.
Emmett Fischer
"Blue Kaiju"
7' 4"
Red eyes
Stretch Marks / Right arm
The Community of Icy Horse
Uncertain
Carefully Skinny
Take over a country because of grief and loss
Jerry the "Victorian ghost"
Full
The Mealy Circus
Ancient Lagoon
Pleasure Carnival
Bunny grabs a lady's purse
Cat Is being detained
Crazy Man Lunges at the group
Bum approaches
Caleb's Potted Plant Ventures
Rojas's Sconce Closet
Campos's Workbench Industries
Ford's Candle Labs
Ceiling Pendulum
Phantasmal Killer of Prosperity
Potted Plant that is glowing
Workbench that has been hollowed out
Secret Sconce
Hidden Arrows
Newspaper of Prosperity
When caster dies, his killer is thrown 1d20 days into the future
| Name | Codename | Career | Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skylar Rojas | "Wild Eyes" | Merchant | Cookies | Death |
| Logan Campos | "Three Elbows" | Mole | Chalk | Rock n' Roll |
| Angelina Schmidt | Counselor | Limes | Books | |
| Caleb Scott | Zestful | Washing Machines | Broccoli | |
| Emmanuel Ford | Sad | Glass | Cellphones |
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
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 UpGive 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.
Characters90% 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.
RollingThis 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 MasterYour 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.
EndingNo 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).