The Director Welcomes You

Operation — Wet Regret

#867b5f

Location

Cloudless, Windy Trinidad and Tobago

Time of Day

11:56

Extraction Point

127 Miles NE

Time to Complete

35 Hours

Detectives,
It seems "Casual Pig" has gone level 9. They have been broadcasting this message "A white horse dashes past at the Hollow oak tree". We need you to eliminate them, Fatally. Their last known location was recorded at 22:10. You have a Bulbous Newspaper as a last resort. Use carefully.

— The Portable Radio you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Alexa Hodges

Alias

"Casual Pig"

Features

4' 8"

Amber eyes

Large moles / Right eye

Organization

The Bureau of Worried Necklace

Emotions

Hesitant

Personality

Fatally Tasteless

Motive

Take over a country fueled by conspiracy

Bodyguard

Harold the "Rainy Koalas"

Physical Size

Cramped

Story

Additional Locations

The Wet Castle

Pitch Black Palace

Competency Suburbs

Random Events

Carcass Integrates silently into the group

Procession Crashes slowly

Nearby Gas Tank Is getting confiscated

Carcass is heard screaming

World

Stores

Jeremiah's Skeletal Animal Discount

Wright's Key Warehouse

Ruiz's Ceramic Crock Warehouse

Burke's Coat of Arms Supermarket

Traps

Phantasmal Killer

Fireball of Excitement

Objects

Skeletal Animal that is glowing

Ceramic Crock children's replica

Secret Key

Hidden Soy Sauce Packet

Greaves of Excitement

Wand of Wonder

Caster disgorges a glass cube four inches on a side 0765 Caster disgorges a glass vial containing a mysterious potion

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Aria Wright "No Boy" Merchant Cousins Candles
Caroline Ruiz "Red Bagels" Mole Boxes Water
Sebastian Powers Drummer Soda Flashlights
Jeremiah Frank Bruised Chalk Water
Elena Burke Demon Flashlights Sponges

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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).