The Director Welcomes You
The Fifth Virtue Incident
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Investigators, As you can see you are trapped inside enter a Pitch Black Spring . We almost couldn't find you — Please explain when you get back. All we know is "White Alien" is responsible and they sent us this message - "A vagrant asks for food at the Apple Orchard". Your mission was black bag, achieve what you can.
Hopefully you still have that Colorful Audio Cassette hidden on you.
— The Portable Radio you were holding self destructs.
Owen Vega
"White Alien"
4' 5"
Brown eyes
Faint curved scar / Left foot
The Council of Melted Temperature
Grumpy
Recklessly Refined
Make a lot of money for scientific discovery
Harold the "Lively Demon"
Huge
The Long House
Polluted Mansion
Extinction Suburbs
Robber arrives in the mail
Gunshot Salutes the adventurers
Butter Shipment Is being detained
Box of Mice skins a cat with his teeth
Nova's Bell Du jour
Salazar's Sculpture Atelier
Nguyen's Candlesticks Convenience store
Santos's Loveseat Hole
Razor-Wire across Hallway
Suspicious door with lock of Virtue
Bell that is glowing
Candlesticks made of heavy metal
Secret Sculpture
Hidden Blindfold
Pen of Virtue
Target smells rotting flesh everywhere for 1d4 weeks
| Name | Codename | Career | Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Salazar | "Black Cappuccinos" | Merchant | Lions | Quartz Crystals |
| Alexandra Nguyen | "Sharp Hands" | Mole | Hammers | Boxes |
| Cora Watts | Athlete | Technology | Chili | |
| Nova Wood | Bruised | Bells | Video Games | |
| Brantley Santos | Demon | Cookies | Rubber Bands |
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
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 UpGive 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.
Characters90% 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.
RollingThis 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 MasterYour 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.
EndingNo 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).