The Director Welcomes You

The Plump Pastry Predicament

#79971d

Location

Cool, Dry Brazil

Time of Day

10:59

Extraction Point

65 Miles SE

Time to Complete

26 Hours

Agents,
As you can see you are trapped inside the outside of a Expensive Motel . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "Junior giant" is responsible and they sent us this message - "A vagrant asks for money at the Where grass will not grow". Your mission was counterintelligence, achieve what you can.

Hopefully you still have that Rusty Plier hidden on you.

— The CD player you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Nolan Spencer

Alias

"Junior giant"

Features

4' 6"

Red eyes

Large moles / Right eye

Organization

The Authority of Black Queen

Emotions

Resentful

Personality

Tremendously Sweltering

Motive

Take over a country fueled by conspiracy

Bodyguard

Mitch the "Zealous Gremlin"

Physical Size

Considerable

Story

Additional Locations

The Plump Fortress

Desolate Park

Enjoyment Fortress

Random Events

Drunk Is throwing a protest

Midwife Skips merrily

Corncob Becomes wounded

Gang Is being kidnapped

World

Stores

Faith's Cabinet Specialities

Potter's Large book Technologies

Townsend's Pipe Collective

Soto's Key Hole

Traps

Scything Blade

Arrow of Vulnerability

Objects

Cabinet made of heavy metal

Pipe that has been hollowed out

Secret Large book

Hidden Notebook

Falchion of Vulnerability

Wand of Wonder

Caster has a cumulative 1% chance daily to be eaten by a dragon

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Alyssa Potter "Meaty Boy" Merchant Glitter Essential Oils
Jordan Townsend "Mad Ribs" Mole Glitter Physics
Skylar Warren Teacher Dolphins Cellphones
Faith Gill Dentist Christmas Singing
Nova Soto Judge Paper Squirrels

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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).