The Director Welcomes You

Crown, Breasts, Buffalo Nickel, Spy.

#67c62d

Location

Dry, Cloudless Sudan, South

Time of Day

16:47

Extraction Point

102 Miles NNW

Time to Complete

13 Hours

Shadows,
We need your help. Agent Taylor Green has gone missing and we believe "Small Werewolf" is responsible. They were last seen in Sudan, South at 02:22. The agent sent one final message – "A black cat runs past at the Tempest". Take this Beautiful Sun Lotion - it was their favorite tool and might help you.

— The Microsoft Zune you were holding self destructs.

The Villain Dossier

Name

Nova Cole

Alias

"Small Werewolf"

Features

7' 9"

Hazel eyes

Large moles / Crotch

Organization

The company of Spicy Buffalo Nickel

Emotions

Shocked

Personality

Frightfully Rough

Motive

Make a lot of money to become the best

Bodyguard

Jerry the "Stoned Turtle"

Physical Size

Enormous

Story

Additional Locations

The Calamitous Chateau

Underwater Lagoon

Doom Spring

Random Events

Transport arrives in the mail

Vegetable Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers

Crowd Bursts loudly

Nomad explodes

World

Stores

Bailey's Footlocker Couture

Bush's Paperweight Arcade

Henry's File Wardrobe

Green's Chaise Couture

Traps

Object Smeared with Poison

Phantasmal Killer of Contentment

Objects

Footlocker with a False bottom

File that has been hollowed out

Secret Paperweight

Hidden Sword

Spear of Contentment

Wand of Wonder

When target next spills blood, his Strength is halved until dawn

People

Name Codename Career Likes Dislikes
Miguel Bush "Black Bagels" Merchant Cats Squirrels
Aaliyah Henry "Sharp Churros" Mole Sponges Basketball
Finley Gutierrez Cleaner Robots Scarves
Bailey Newman Exhilarated Doors Easter
Taylor Green Cheerful Sun Glasses 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).