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This week on Episode #580

The Party of the Uneven Area

For the Head Detective's eyes only!

Give Them Direction

Monsters
The Fugly Turtle of the Uneven Area
trifling Childish Giraffe of The Blackest Black
Uneven Elephant
Villain Motive
Destruction
Starting Event
The Adventurer's are taken somewhere against their will
Random Events
A Chauvinist Strikes the church bell
A Buccaneer emerges
A Gang Attempts to rob a bank
A Feminist Lunges at the group
Local Business
Daniela's Fruit Bowl Group
Timmy's Loveseat Arcade
Beck's Desk Warehouse
Higgins's Metal chair Department store

Populate the World

Criminal Contacts
jessica "cheap toes"
Timmy "big dumplings"
Donald "casual cappuccinos"
Terry "Uneven Area"
Random People
Isabel Lee
Weston Gregory
Edward Beck
Parker Cortez
Daniela Gill
Dean Higgins
Brandon Chambers
Nevaeh Tyler
Descriptions
Cosmetologist
Dog surfing instructor
Dog surfing instructor
Broker
Athlete

MISC Ideas

Magical Objects
Cutlass of The Blackest Black
Diary of Fate
Secret objects
Secret Fruit Bowl
Desk with a False bottom
Random objects
Metal chair
Trunk
Letter Opener
Drawers
Locations
Festival
Villa
Zone
Borough
Destinations
Town of Deretrinmire
City of Irthhamland

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).