The Director Welcomes You

The Seemingly Tropical Agent

#5c9b8a

Location

Foggy, Cool Liberia

Time of Day

19:31

Extraction Point

2 Miles W

Time to Complete

38 Hours

Ambassadors,
It seems "Cramped Succubus" has gone level 5. They have been broadcasting this message "A pool of blood at the Seven Dead". We need you to eliminate them, Seemingly. Their last known location was recorded at 15:23. You have a Invisible Banana as a last resort. Use carefully.

— The Tablet of Stone you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Ellie Lloyd

Alias

"Cramped Succubus"

Features

5' 9"

Amber eyes

Faint curved scar / Left eye

Organization

The company of Greasy Map

Emotions

Uncertain

Personality

Seemingly Sparse

Motive

Take over a country to better Humanity

Bodyguard

Roberto the "Mandatory Wraith"

Physical Size

Sizable

Story

Additional Locations

The Tropical Festival

Ancient Spring

Doom Villa

Random Events

Bottle of Soy Sauce Becomes wounded

Alligator Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers

Cauldron Bounces oddly

Tramp Is throwing a protest

World

Stores

Audrey's Clamp Properties

Simpson's Drawers Unlimited

Lang's Creeping Vines Creative

Gill's Metal chair Little shop

Traps

Poison Needle

Ghoul Touch of Cleanliness

Objects

Clamp children's replica

Creeping Vines made of heavy metal

Secret Drawers

Hidden Collar

Soy Sauce Packet of Cleanliness

Wand of Wonder

Target has a seizure lasting 1d6 hours when he uses a magic item

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Austin Simpson "Right Knuckles" Merchant Dinosaurs Paper
Abigail Lang "Meaty Hearts" Mole Dolphins Mirrors
Connor Murray Dietitian Peanut Butter Glass
Audrey Medina Bounty hunter Paper Books
Lyla Gill Dead Tired Technology Rubber Stamps

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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).