The Director Welcomes You

Who is Roberto Hospital?

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Location

Gorgeous, Calm Monaco

Time of Day

6:35

Extraction Point

176 Miles SW

Time to Complete

42 Hours

Eyeballs,
As you can see you are trapped inside descend into Deserted Private Jet plane . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "Green Troll" is responsible and they sent us this message - "A lone flower growing at the Old battlefield". Your mission was counterintelligence, achieve what you can.

Hopefully you still have that Clandestine Scissor hidden on you.

— The Origami Swan you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Oscar Parsons

Alias

"Green Troll"

Features

5' 9"

Heterochromia eyes

Large moles / Right leg

Organization

The Commission of Chuffed Rings

Emotions

Attraction

Personality

Unaccountably Sturdy

Motive

Take over a country to save humanity

Bodyguard

Roberto the "Modern Merfolk"

Physical Size

Meager

Story

Additional Locations

The Curved Jungle

Desolate Tower

Pleasure Forge

Random Events

Husband scurries by

Donkey approaches

Water Vessel Salutes the adventurers

Butter Shipment meets disaster

World

Stores

Adeline's Pan Unlimited

Dixon's Sconce Group

Vaughn's Easel Collective

Bowman's Chair Factory

Traps

Portcullis

Collapsing Column of Disaster

Objects

Pan with a False bottom

Easel with a False bottom

Secret Sconce

Hidden Shield

Camera of Disaster

Wand of Wonder

All of caster’s clothing is permanently moist

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Hailey Dixon "Meaty Bones" Merchant Clocks Dice
Rose Vaughn "Casual Churros" Mole Batteries Video Games
Ryker Alvarez Spirit Lipstick Soccer
Adeline Pratt Meteorologist Hammers Water
William Bowman Graphic Designer Quartz Crystals Soccer

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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).