The Director Welcomes You

The Clever Luge Crux

#25432d

Location

Gorgeous, Warm Guyana

Time of Day

19:43

Extraction Point

99 Miles W

Time to Complete

40 Hours

Snoopers,
As you can see you are trapped inside the outside of a Ancient Masquerade . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "Drowsy Lion" is responsible and they sent us this message - "A stranger can be seen in the shadows at the Dragon's Sea". Your mission was clandestine, achieve what you can.

Hopefully you still have that Soft Binocular hidden on you.

— The Origami Swan you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Ryleigh Morgan

Alias

"Drowsy Lion"

Features

5' 7"

Amber eyes

A second belly button / Left thumb

Organization

The Council of Boiling Boys

Emotions

Safe

Personality

Sadly Hot

Motive

Take over a government to corrupt everyone

Bodyguard

Chuckie the "Strung Out Gremlin"

Physical Size

Poor

Story

Additional Locations

The Clever City

Archaic Barn Dance

Annihilation Park

Random Events

Dozen Eggs catches on fire

Druid Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers

Odor drops from the sky

Biscuit Is throwing a protest

World

Stores

Molly's Watch Boutique

Hayes's End Table Solutions

Carroll's Window Chic Chåteau

Davidson's Candlesticks Ventures

Traps

Dropping Ceiling

Object Smeared with Poison of Pleasure

Objects

Watch that has been hollowed out

Window children's replica

Secret End Table

Hidden Glasses

Stave of Pleasure

Wand of Wonder

One side of caster’s body is invulnerable to fire

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Wyatt Hayes "Casual Lox" Merchant Flowers Batteries
Amelia Carroll "Golden Fingers" Mole Rubber Bands Syrup
Bennett Hale Drunken Rocks Tigers
Molly Knight Dietitian Sticks Candy
Claire Davidson Cleaner Candles Toilets

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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).