The Director Welcomes You

The Speedily Nice Agent

#fc0160

Location

Stormy, Calm Mongolia

Time of Day

21:17

Extraction Point

86 Miles N

Time to Complete

6 Hours

Scrutinizers,
This week should be easy. You are delivering a Lounge Chair children's replica. Get to Mongolia at 06:09

Good Luck.

— The iPod you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Jaxon Buchanan

Alias

"Wild Elves"

Features

4' 1"

Blue eyes

Large deep scar / Right middle finger

Organization

The Incorporated of Unsightly Fang

Emotions

Rageful

Personality

Speedily Melodic

Motive

Make a lot of money to corrupt everyone

Bodyguard

Jerry the "Bewildered Owl"

Physical Size

Substantial

Story

Additional Locations

The Nice Grove

Archaic Festival

Indecision Palace

Random Events

Pickpocket overflows

Feminist meets disaster

Carcass Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers

Mutant Spontaneously disintegrates

World

Stores

Ethan's Lounge Chair Couture

Vargas's Vanity Technologies

Barrett's Sconce Little shop

Pena's Pedestal Hole

Traps

Collapsing Column

Suspicious door with lock of Doom

Objects

Lounge Chair children's replica

Sconce made of heavy metal

Secret Vanity

Hidden Fork

Longsword of Doom

Wand of Wonder

A local ruler is under the control of infernal powers

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Fiona Vargas "No Kidneys" Merchant Tissues Flashlights
Waylon Barrett "No Hot Dogs" Mole Glass Trucks
Amaya Rodriguez Musician Bread Toilets
Ethan Ross Depressed Physics Teeth
James Pena Cosmetologist Drinking Children's Stories

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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).