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This week on Episode #333

The Clique of the Careful Acid

For the Head Detective's eyes only!

Give Them Direction

Monsters
The dirty Turtle of the Careful Acid
full Common Nymph of Euphoria
Careful Rhinoceroses
Villain Motive
Desperation
Starting Event
A secret in the agency is discovered
Random Events
A nearby gas tank Is under a curse
A Wanderer is being loudly arrested
A Amulet explodes
A chunk of beef explodes
Local Business
Alan's Butter Churner Consulting
Jose's Portrait Five-and-a-dime
Price's Fruit Bowl Du jour
Clarke's Spice shelf Discount

Populate the World

Criminal Contacts
oscar "plump matzo balls"
Jose "sharp hands"
Roberto "wild tongues"
Al "Careful Acid"
Random People
Eliza Jackson
Olivia Pham
Nicole Price
Emma Welch
Alan Marquez
Anthony Clarke
Sydney Solis
Elliot Pham
Descriptions
Hotel Manager
Plumber
Headhunter
Actor
Indifferent

MISC Ideas

Magical Objects
Nipple Clamp of Euphoria
Spear of Grave Consequences
Secret objects
Secret Butter Churner
Fruit Bowl with a False bottom
Random objects
Spice shelf
Vanity
Faberge Egg
Ring
Locations
Carousal
Park
Tower
Business
Destinations
Town of Stockkenstead
City of Bradstorton

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).