The Director Welcomes You
The Bewildered Food Problem
#d05866
Ambassadors, It seems "Fast Elves" has gone level 9. They have been broadcasting this message "A vagrant asks for food at the old bridge". We need you to eliminate them, Rapidly. Their last known location was recorded at 14:06. You have a Robotic Coin as a last resort. Use carefully.
— The Microsoft Zune you were holding self destructs.
Leonardo Carr
"Fast Elves"
6' 7"
Blue eyes
A second belly button / Left leg
The League of Clever Women
Hateful
Rapidly Famous
Take over a country for fear of the heroes
Daniel the "Tiring all-seeing eye"
Gigantic
The Bewildered Arcade
Underwater Forest
Bravery Park
Dead Animal Is throwing a BBQ
Whore Ignites violently
Bellhop Glistens gently
Spice Box arrives in the mail
Lucas's Goblet Worldwide
Burton's Paperweight Brothers
Hopkins's Pedestal Boutique
Porter's Satchel Technologies
Poison Wall Spikes
Razor-Wire across Hallway of Violence
Goblet made of heavy metal
Pedestal that is glowing
Secret Paperweight
Hidden Key
Goblet of Violence
If caster ingests poison, his teeth fall out
| Name | Codename | Career | Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josephine Burton | "Mad Hands" | Merchant | Soap | Bells |
| Roman Hopkins | "Indigo Pinky's" | Mole | Flowers | Quartz Crystals |
| Isabel Juarez | Statistician | Chalk | Bells | |
| Lucas Newman | Master Distiller | Painting | Batteries | |
| Paisley Porter | Operator | Cartography | Candles |
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).