The Director Welcomes You

Operation — Noisy Stepmother

#0a33ee

Location

Rainy, Chilly Korea, North

Time of Day

9:31

Extraction Point

30 Miles E

Time to Complete

6 Hours

Undercover Emissaries,
As you can see you are trapped inside the outside of a Underwater Villa . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "Small Whale" is responsible and they sent us this message - "A roll of thunder at the Wizard's Scar". Your mission was intelligence, achieve what you can.

Hopefully you still have that Glowing Watch hidden on you.

— The Messenger Pigeon you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Nolan Steele

Alias

"Small Whale"

Features

5' 4"

Blue eyes

Faint curved scar / Right arm

Organization

The Fraternity of Curious Goat

Emotions

Pleased

Personality

Sharply Prominent

Motive

Take over a country fueled by conspiracy

Bodyguard

Tiffany the "Municipal Mutants"

Physical Size

Minuscule

Story

Additional Locations

The Noisy Carousal

Compact Manor

Virtue Villa

Random Events

Box of Cigarette Adopts a nearby child

Majestic Painting Crashes slowly

Keg Crashes slowly

Woman is loose

World

Stores

Jonah's Tapestry Factory

Vargas's Armoir Bureau

Elliott's Lipstick Specialities

Stanley's Mantle Technologies

Traps

Scything Blade

Portcullis of Endownment

Objects

Tapestry made of heavy metal

Lipstick made of heavy metal

Secret Armoir

Hidden Helmet

Longsword of Endownment

Wand of Wonder

Undead declare a coordinated war against the target

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Logan Vargas "Three Lox" Merchant Death Attention
Faith Elliott "King Dumplings" Mole Octopus Rocks
Brayden Obrien Waiter Basketball Chili
Jonah Morrison Sad Singing Fire
Ivan Stanley Intoxicated Bells Fire

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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).