The Director Welcomes You

The Roughly Unimportant Agent

#f59d5c

Location

Cloudy, Stormy Burkina Faso

Time of Day

0:20

Extraction Point

76 Miles NE

Time to Complete

7 Hours

Undercover Emissaries,
It seems "Slow Doppelganger" has gone level 1. They have been broadcasting this message "The group finds a dollar on the ground at the Apple Orchard". We need you to eliminate them, Roughly. Their last known location was recorded at 05:14. You have a Bulbous Clock as a last resort. Use carefully.

— The iPod you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Lillian Evans

Alias

"Slow Doppelganger"

Features

7' 4"

Heterochromia eyes

A second belly button / Left thumb

Organization

The Union of Verdant Society

Emotions

Excited

Personality

Roughly Empty

Motive

Take over a government justice for a wrong-doing

Bodyguard

Joseph the "Obtuse Mummy"

Physical Size

Modest

Story

Additional Locations

The Unimportant Grove

Bustling Port

Euthanasia Lake

Random Events

Butter Shipment Spontaneously disintegrates

Carcass emerges

Corncob Finds gold in the water

Dancer chase a suspect

World

Stores

Easton's Metal chair Cosmetics

Marshall's Figurine Technologies

Perry's Creeping Vines Factory

Collins's Coat of Arms Solutions

Traps

Swinging Block

Hail of Needles of Grave Consequences

Objects

Metal chair with a False bottom

Creeping Vines children's replica

Secret Figurine

Hidden Axe

Rapier of Grave Consequences

Wand of Wonder

Target forgets the last 1d4 years

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Brody Marshall "Violet Elbows" Merchant Cousins Candy
Aiden Perry "Left Cheesecakes" Mole Soap Cartography
Graham Simmons Old Man Quartz Crystals Dice
Easton Moore Dentist Hamsters Football
Zoe Collins Scientist Physics Lipstick

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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).