The Director Welcomes You
The Juicy World Plight
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Eyeballs, I have sent you to be locked inside of a Underwater Arcade to look for a suspect by the name "Obese Roc". This mission is intelligence. Their recent activity is concerning and we need you to retrieve their missile codes. We don't know much about their goals but we've intercepted this cryptic message – "A stranger can be seen in the shadows at the Field of Wildflowers".
We're low budget this mission – I've packed a Clean Pair of Gloves in your kit to help.
— The Tablet of Stone you were holding self destructs.
Zoey Patton
"Obese Roc"
7' 9"
Green eyes
Large deep scar / Left eye
The League of Great Battery
Depressed
Jealously Magnificent
Disrupt the military to achieve their destiny
Sam the "Creepy Pheonix"
Short
The Juicy Fortress
Expensive Festival
Doom Island
Vagabond Is being detained
Biscuit Is being kidnapped
Tramp Is throwing a protest
Pickpocket is heard screaming
Jordan's Tea Set Du jour
Sanchez's Rubber Plant Atelier
Sutton's Statue Hole
Moreno's Trunk Bazaar
Razor-Wire across Hallway
Poison Wall Spikes of Exuberance
Tea Set made of heavy metal
Statue that has been hollowed out
Secret Rubber Plant
Hidden Pen
Sticks of Exuberance
Target’s nose looks like a small, clenched fist
| Name | Codename | Career | Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weston Sanchez | "King Thumbs" | Merchant | Eggs | Photography |
| Wesley Sutton | "Heavy Bagels" | Mole | Bears | Robots |
| Calvin Glover | Bounty hunter | Houses | Acorns | |
| Jordan Miller | Ghost | Cousins | Whipped Cream | |
| Lauren Moreno | Headhunter | Stickers | Fire |
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).