The Director Welcomes You

Operation — Disruptive Heat

#993522

Location

Foggy, Calm Saudi Arabia

Time of Day

15:21

Extraction Point

20 Miles NWW

Time to Complete

41 Hours

Snoopers,
I have sent you to the inside of a Expensive Forge to look for a suspect by the name "Plump Abominable Snowman". This mission is counterintelligence. Their recent activity is concerning and we need you to discover their location. We don't know much about their goals but we've intercepted this cryptic message – "A thick fog rolls in at the Snowy garrison".

We're low budget this mission – I've packed a Evil Audio Cassette in your kit to help.

— The Tape recorder you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Grayson Dominguez

Alias

"Plump Abominable Snowman"

Features

4' 6"

Amber eyes

Large moles / Crotch

Organization

The Crew of Chewy Ball

Emotions

Hateful

Personality

Intently Avian

Motive

Make a lot of money to escape their destiny

Bodyguard

Randy the "Melodic Elephant"

Physical Size

Bantam

Story

Additional Locations

The Disruptive City

Expensive Pond

Indecision City

Random Events

Reindeer Attempts to rob a bank

Cat grabs a lady's purse

Delivery Guy Is being kidnapped

Pack of Wild Dogs Is being tortured

World

Stores

Ryan's Window Atelier

Hunter's Flowers Growing International

Patel's Candelabra Hole

Rodgers's Music Box Atelier

Traps

Ray of Sickness

Ceiling Pendulum of Pleasure

Objects

Window with a False bottom

Candelabra children's replica

Secret Flowers Growing

Hidden Key

Blades of Pleasure

Wand of Wonder

Damage inflicted upon caster leaves unusually severe scars

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Londyn Hunter "Mini Tongues" Merchant Candles Chickens
Elliot Patel "Indigo Forearms" Mole Comic Books Sharp Things
Annabelle Valdez Journalist Balloons Dolphins
Ryan Evans Athlete Deodorant Boxes
Adeline Rodgers Architect Horses Snowglobes

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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).