(set:$world to (random:1,20))(set:$time to (random:1,20))(set:$people to (random:1,20))
> the adventure takes place *(if:$world is 1)[in an open desert](if:$world is 2)[on an open grassland](if:$world is 3)[in the countryside, among gentle rolling hills](if:$world is 4)[in a remote woodland village](if:$world is 5)[deep in the heart of the forest](if:$world is 6)[in an underground network of caves](if:$world is 7)[atop the highest mountains](if:$world is 8)[in a land of windbeaten tundra](if:$world is 9)[in the fog upon the moor and heath](if:$world is 10)[on a chain of small tropical islands](if:$world is 11)[in a small rural town](if:$world is 12)[in a market town, at the cross of several roads](if:$world is 13)[in a city-state or capital](if:$world is 14)[in a sprawling, soaring metropolis](if:$world is 15)[on the open ocean](if:$world is 16)[among castles in the sky](if:$world is 17)[on another plane of existence](if:$world is 18)[aboard a massive, mobile structure](if:$world is 19)[on a planet inhospitable to life](if:$world is 20)[in the void of space], * during *(if:$time is 1)[a time when the surface of the world is barren of all sentient life](if:$time is 2)[a paleolithic era of civilization](if:$time is 3)[a neolithic era of civilization](if:$time is 4)[a time of long-distance migration by small craft](if:$time is 5)[a time of copper and bronze](if:$time is 6)[a time of iron and paper](if:$time is 7)[an era of early agriculture](if:$time is 8)[a golden age of scientific inquiry](if:$time is 9)[recovery from a violent occupation](if:$time is 10)[the first kindlings of a revolution](if:$time is 11)[the age of the printing press](if:$time is 12)[a scientific renaissance](if:$time is 13)[pre-colonial indigenous civilization](if:$time is 14)[early European colonialism](if:$time is 15)[the beginning of industrial colonialism](if:$time is 16)[the atomic era, nuclear cold war, or first space age](if:$time is 17)[the internet age (current era)](if:$time is 18)[the climate crisis era (current era)](if:$time is 19)[the second space age, a time characterized by cryoexploratory missions into deep space](if:$time is 20)[a cosmopolitan age of faster-than-light space travel and interstellar exchange].*
> your characters are *(if:$people is 1)[defending their homes](if:$people is 2)[far-traveling refugees](if:$people is 3)[rich, comfortable, and successful](if:$people is 4)[on a religious pilgrimage](if:$people is 5)[on a sacred quest](if:$people is 6)[protecting a terrible secret](if:$people is 7)[wandering sages](if:$people is 8)[mercenaries or detectives](if:$people is 9)[young children of colonizers](if:$people is 10)[subsistence farmers](if:$people is 11)[transhumance pastoralists](if:$people is 12)[hunter-gatherers](if:$people is 13)[scavengers and traders](if:$people is 14)[lifelong victims of poverty](if:$people is 15)[scientists with new ideas](if:$people is 16)[marooned survivors of a disastrous event](if:$people is 17)[students on a gap year trip](if:$people is 18)[an all-queer group of traveling performers](if:$people is 19)[unapologetically evil assholes](if:$people is 20)[a multigenerational family].*
> roll again? (text-style: "blink")[ [[_->only page]] ]
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