D&D General Could Improv (and maybe Theatre) save your Roleplaying???

[MichaelSomething]

Sounds like you're selling a class. Which, now that I think of it, do you have any resource that talks about improv exercises? I regularly make stuff up on the fly because the players almost never do what I expect them to (which is awesome). But actual improv exercises? No clue what they would be.

I don't know either! A local threatre or college may classes or some resources? I imagine there are books on the subject? I wish the DMG would recommend some things.

I have been mulling a D&D themed Cards Agaisnt Humanity spin off where a person has cards of various adventurer tactics and tries to convince the "DM" that it's the best solution to the problem card...

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Wait, what's that? I have receipts?

D&D General - How has D&D changed over the decades?

Another thing that changed is the expected availablity of magicand magic items in the civilized worlds due to the influence of video gamges. Final Fantasy 1, a very old game, has a potion shop, white magic shop, and black magic shop in the starter town. Almost every fantasy game does this. This...

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Beam, be removed from eye. Or whatever lame and desperate insult applies to the chip shoulder thing.

Okay, yeah, that is a really dumb and obnoxious thing to say. But it's not in this thread and has nothing whatsoever to do with improv.

 

[Vaalingrade]

From the OP of this thread:

Want a focus on the fiction and interaction instead of mechanics and button pressing?

 

[iserith]

Or, you know, that bit was said tongue-in-cheek and now you look like a person who doesn't understand the joke.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Or, you know, that bit was said tongue-in-cheek and now you look like a person who doesn't understand the joke.

Was it. How many times has 'button pressing' been used in complete seriousness in the past week on here?

 

[iserith]

Was it. How many times has 'button pressing' been used in complete seriousness in the past week on here?

I don't know. I don't read every thread. The context here suggests to me it's a parody of an old timey commercial.

Anyway, I play on a VTT so I'm absolutely doing some button pressing so it doesn't bother me. It might be worth examining why this statement presses your own buttons.

 

[Vaalingrade]

It might be worth examining why this statement presses your own buttons.

Because it's intentionally inflammatory and belittling to all the people with anxieties or self-consciousness about their skills that I've seen those 'buttons' help enjoy the game when previously they didn't want to join us because of fear of the kind of judgement and ridicule on display recently.

Basically, I'm weird in that I don't like folks punching down.

 

[iserith]

Because it's intentionally inflammatory and belittling to all the people with anxieties or self-consciousness about their skills that I've seen those 'buttons' help enjoy the game when previously they didn't want to join us because of fear of the kind of judgement and ridicule on display recently.

Basically, I'm weird in that I don't like folks punching down.

Have you considered that it's also bad to think of someone as being "down?"

 

[Vaalingrade]

Have you considered that it's also bad to think of someone as being "down?"

That's not the point of the term.

 

[iserith]

That's not the point of the term.

In order to think of someone as "down," one must think of them as being lesser in some way, lower or beneath someone else. You appear to think of those people as lesser, so it's not cool for people who "aren't lesser" to attack them. I find it offensive that someone would think of people with the challenges you mentioned as being "down."