The Director Welcomes You
Chic Chåteau Royale
#e14754
Investigators, As you can see you are trapped inside the outside of a Overpopulated Lake . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "Slow Cyclops" is responsible and they sent us this message - "The group finds a dead fish at the Top of the carousel wheel". Your mission was clandestine, achieve what you can.
Hopefully you still have that Light Bolt Cutter hidden on you.
— The CD player you were holding self destructs.
Kayla Reese
"Slow Cyclops"
7' 8"
Green eyes
Small mole / Right foot
The Clique of Fluffy Plunger
Disliked
Zestfully Fugly
Disrupt the military to become rich
Larry the "Thoughtless Spirit"
Poor
The Future Jungle
Touristy Manor
Excitement Business
Dead Animal approaches
Softball Calls menacingly
Horse Carriage Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers
Deadbeat Is being tortured
Peyton's Skeletal Animal Chic Chåteau
Wagner's Spare brick Little shop
Malone's Flower in Vase Bureau
Dawson's Shoe Horn Group
Built-to-Collapse Wall
Ice lock of Delirium
Skeletal Animal that has been hollowed out
Flower in Vase with a False bottom
Secret Spare brick
Hidden Brass Knuckles
Staff of Delirium
Target only needs to blink once every 4d6 hours
| Name | Codename | Career | Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Wagner | "Three Eyes" | Merchant | Quartz Crystals | Horses |
| Gabriella Malone | "No Noses" | Mole | Tea | Whipped Cream |
| Ezekiel Fleming | Cosmetologist | Rubber Bands | Quartz Crystals | |
| Peyton Santiago | Statistician | Syrup | Bears | |
| Henry Dawson | Physician | Christmas | Chocolate |
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).