The Director Welcomes You

Operation — Some Bust

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Location

Breezy, Arid Peru

Time of Day

19:16

Extraction Point

101 Miles NNW

Time to Complete

22 Hours

Meddlers,
This week should be easy. You are delivering a Canopy Bed children's replica. Get to Peru at 07:10

Good Luck.

— The Messenger Pigeon you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Judy Phillips

Alias

"No Kangaroos"

Features

6' 11"

Hazel eyes

Faint curved scar / Right middle finger

Organization

The Bureau of Immense Splint

Emotions

Intrigued

Personality

Upbeat Prehistoric

Motive

Take over a government out of survival

Bodyguard

Bobby the "Green Bat"

Physical Size

Narrow

Story

Additional Locations

The Some Reef

Ancient Masquerade

Reservation Carousal

Random Events

Chauvinist grabs a lady's purse

Whore drops from the sky

Potato drops from the sky

Demon scurries by

World

Stores

Dawson's Canopy Bed Mall

Le's Barrel Group

Dominguez's Sink Mall

Stanley's Trinket Closet

Traps

Bestow Curse

Suspicious door with lock of Cheer

Objects

Canopy Bed children's replica

Sink with a False bottom

Secret Barrel

Hidden Greaves

Targe of Cheer

Wand of Wonder

All paper now nearby glows in the dark permanently

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Aliyah Le "Five Legs" Merchant Houses Syrup
Tucker Dominguez "Obese Spleens" Mole Bears Quartz Crystals
Lucia Ryan Psychiatrist Balloons Water
Dawson Sparks Ghost Coffee Sun Glasses
Arabella Stanley Plumber Soap Dice

Cipher



                

                
 
                

                

                

                

                

                

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).