The Director Welcomes You

The Small Advertisement Protocol

#086f96

Location

Bright, Miserable Peru

Time of Day

16:2

Extraction Point

171 Miles SE

Time to Complete

46 Hours

Informants,
It seems "Three Seal" has gone level 8. They have been broadcasting this message "The group finds a random cow at the Broken Face". We need you to eliminate them, Doubtfully. Their last known location was recorded at 08:03. You have a Invisible Hammer as a last resort. Use carefully.

— The Vinyl record player you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Jocelyn Olson

Alias

"Three Seal"

Features

4' 4"

Red eyes

Large moles / Crotch

Organization

The Department of Gigantic Cake

Emotions

Overwhelmed

Personality

Doubtfully Cold

Motive

Disrupt the military to lead a mutiny

Bodyguard

Juan the "Thundering kobold"

Physical Size

Limited

Story

Additional Locations

The Small Park

Expensive Chateau

Peace Grove

Random Events

Carcass is loose

Chanting Cult Is being detained

Storm Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers

Herd of Chicken catches on fire

World

Stores

David's Mantle Atelier

Strickland's Spice shelf Wardrobe

Santos's Plaster Bust Du jour

Pearson's Taxidermy animal Unlimited

Traps

Built-to-Collapse Wall

Extended Bane of Delirium

Objects

Mantle that has been hollowed out

Plaster Bust that has been hollowed out

Secret Spice shelf

Hidden Soy Sauce Packet

Arrows of Delirium

Wand of Wonder

The ground within 50 yards swarms with biting insects

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Cooper Strickland "Three Muscles" Merchant Chalk Eggs
Morgan Santos "Short Arms" Mole Christmas Football
Ryder Mack Cheerful Essential Oils Slippers
David Montgomery Scientist Jazz Trees
Juliana Pearson Geologist Cartography Rubber Bands

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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).