The Director Welcomes You

Harmony, Desire, Doghouse, Spy.

#146903

Location

Humid, Hot Nauru

Time of Day

4:0

Extraction Point

93 Miles SSE

Time to Complete

10 Hours

Informants,
We need your help. Agent Penelope Chavez has gone missing and we believe "Yellow kobold" is responsible. They were last seen in Nauru at 23:15. The agent sent one final message – "A mysterious key is found on the ground at the Dead Forest". Take this Glowing Bonsai Tree - it was their favorite tool and might help you.

— The Tinder Date you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Levi Vazquez

Alias

"Yellow kobold"

Features

5' 7"

Gray eyes

Faint curved scar / Right hand

Organization

The Guild of Poor Doghouse

Emotions

Calm

Personality

Verbally Fierce

Motive

Take over a government out of survival

Bodyguard

Billy the "Powerful Kangaroos"

Physical Size

Giant

Story

Additional Locations

The Some Creek

Crowded Jungle

Sanitation Maze

Random Events

Butter Shipment Integrates silently into the group

Bellhop Becomes wounded

Milk Shipment runs over an infant

Carcass gathers near a point of interest

World

Stores

Brayden's Footlocker Du jour

Lane's Shelf of alcohol Department store

Chang's Desk Industries

Chavez's Portrait Ventures

Traps

Acid Arrow

Dropping Ceiling of Perspiration

Objects

Footlocker with a False bottom

Desk that is glowing

Secret Shelf of alcohol

Hidden Polearm

Club of Perspiration

Wand of Wonder

Any pack animals within one mile race away at top speed

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Teagan Lane "Indigo Heels" Merchant Cellphones Doors
Cora Chang "Right Hands" Mole Squirrels Coffee
Riley Murphy Scientist Photography Trucks
Brayden Blair Meteorologist Essential Oils Rubber Stamps
Penelope Chavez Consultant Sharks Television

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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).