The Director Welcomes You

Craigslist, Veil, Postoffice, Spy.

#b40fd1

Location

Dry, Frigid Paraguay

Time of Day

5:30

Extraction Point

136 Miles E

Time to Complete

45 Hours

Sleuths,
This week should be easy. You are delivering a Stamp Set children's replica. Get to Paraguay at 21:24

Good Luck.

— The Tablet of Stone you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Sophie Chambers

Alias

"Yellow Bull"

Features

6' 10"

Gray eyes

A second belly button / Left thumb

Organization

The Incorporated of Happy Postoffice

Emotions

Grief-stricken

Personality

Deliberately Round

Motive

Take over a country for honor

Bodyguard

Hal the "Rapid Whale"

Physical Size

Short

Story

Additional Locations

The Quick Grove

Touristy Citadel

Destiny Suburbs

Random Events

Donkey Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers

Meteor Is getting confiscated

Vegetable scurries by

Hound Is accused by the law

World

Stores

Axel's Stamp Set Wardrobe

Burke's Crock Beauty Stop

Owen's Shirt Properties

Wilson's Mural Du jour

Traps

Suspicious door with lock

Dropping Ceiling of Extinction

Objects

Stamp Set children's replica

Shirt that is glowing

Secret Crock

Hidden Bow

Arrows of Extinction

Wand of Wonder

Target perceives profound secrets in everyday conversation

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Alexander Burke "Silver Arms" Merchant Teeth Lipstick
Elliott Owen "Four Spleens" Mole Eggs Candy
Mattie Mitchell Drummer Broccoli Bread
Axel Valdez Master Distiller Stickers Singing
Ryleigh Wilson Blacksmith Contracts Oranges

Cipher



                

                
 
                

                

                

                

                

                

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).