The Director Welcomes You

The Wiener Obliteration Incident

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Location

Breezy, Warm Central African Republic

Time of Day

3:24

Extraction Point

78 Miles SW

Time to Complete

27 Hours

Operatives,
As you can see you are trapped inside underneathe a Bustling Acropolis . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "Casual Griffin" is responsible and they sent us this message - "The group finds a dollar on the ground at the Painted Sands". Your mission was black bag, achieve what you can.

Hopefully you still have that Dull Level hidden on you.

— The Tape recorder you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Emmett James

Alias

"Casual Griffin"

Features

5' 8"

Heterochromia eyes

Large deep scar / Neck

Organization

The Bunch of Scaley Axe

Emotions

Proud

Personality

Wisely Beautiful

Motive

Take over a government to cause catastrophe

Bodyguard

Darnell the "Recessive Banshee"

Physical Size

Hefty

Story

Additional Locations

The Purring Tower

Touristy Palace

Delight Maze

Random Events

Chicken Is being detained

Pack of Wild Dogs Spontaneously disintegrates

Keg skins a cat with his teeth

Vegetable explodes

World

Stores

Emmett's Cabinet Worldwide

Rogers's Doorway Solutions

Black's Bell Creative

Gomez's Lamp Worldwide

Traps

Flame Strike

Ice lock of Obliteration

Objects

Cabinet made of heavy metal

Bell that is glowing

Secret Doorway

Hidden Crossbow

Scimitar of Obliteration

Wand of Wonder

Target’s allies attempt to steal and sell all of his belongings

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Timothy Rogers "Mini Knuckles" Merchant Slippers Dice
Judy Black "Sharp Tongues" Mole Tissues Balloons
Isabella Vazquez Soul Bracelets Water
Emmett Wells Optimistic Dice Candy
Aurora Gomez Bruised Boxes Rabbits

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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).