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This week on Episode #666

Who's Afraid of the Soaring Alive Shooting Range?

For the Head Detective's eyes only!

Give Them Direction

Monsters
The rainy Griffin of the Alive Shooting Range
Soaring Good Dragon of Fate
Alive Banshee
Villain Motive
Rule the world
Starting Event
The commander has you meet someone somewhere
Random Events
A horse carriage runs over an infant
A Potato screams at the top of their lungs
A Goblet Pulls on the coat tails of one of the adventurers
A Spectator is robbed
Local Business
Gianna's Coat of Arms Atelier
Randy's Kitchen table Industries
Lindsey's Fireplace Brothers
Cannon's Pedestal Online

Populate the World

Criminal Contacts
Harrison "italian thumbs"
Randy "obese pastrami's"
Jose "sharp kidneys"
Bobby "Alive Shooting Range"
Random People
Zachary Rojas
Henry Dominguez
Giovanni Lindsey
Paige Alexander
Gianna Gordon
Guy Cannon
Connor Peters
Antonio Frank
Descriptions
Scientist
Animator
Psychiatrist
Dentist
Old Man

MISC Ideas

Magical Objects
Button of Fate
Blades of Redemption
Secret objects
Secret Coat of Arms
Fireplace with a False bottom
Random objects
Pedestal
Trophy
Landscape
Glass Jars
Locations
Sanctuary
Creek
Lodge
Forge
Destinations
Town of Saxtrinwich
City of Uppinglesmire

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).