The Director Welcomes You

The Knowledge Virtue Protocol

#b91ce7

Location

Sunny, Gloomy Korea, North

Time of Day

14:50

Extraction Point

128 Miles NE

Time to Complete

23 Hours

Snoopers,
This week should be easy. You are delivering a Coat that has been hollowed out. Get to Korea, North at 04:03

Good Luck.

— The Portable Radio you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Luca Jennings

Alias

"Bullet Demon"

Features

4' 6"

Brown eyes

A second belly button / Crotch

Organization

The Club of Spicy Thumb

Emotions

Irritated

Personality

Reluctantly Cold

Motive

Disrupt the military out of desperation

Bodyguard

Tim the "Broad Sphinx"

Physical Size

Scanty

Story

Additional Locations

The Melted Circus

Bustling Fortress

Darkness Lodge

Random Events

Baker Calls menacingly

Musical skins a cat with his teeth

Panhandler Balances on a ledge

Spectator Crashes slowly

World

Stores

Lorenzo's Coat Technologies

Maxwell's Lounge Chair Worldwide

Miranda's Telescope Group

Morales's Mirror Bureau

Traps

Hail of Needles

Chain Lightning of Virtue

Objects

Coat that has been hollowed out

Telescope children's replica

Secret Lounge Chair

Hidden Axe

Magazine of Virtue

Wand of Wonder

When target rolls a natural 20 ToHit, his weapon explodes

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Jesus Maxwell "Three Legs" Merchant Shirts Socks
Victor Miranda "White Elbows" Mole Rubber Stamps Death
Owen Woods Intoxicated Lions Easter
Lorenzo Delgado Bruised Lamps Sharks
Isaac Morales Optimistic Trees Physics

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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).