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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9024777" data-attributes="member: 7006">The outside judge has the same function as a ruleset and/or dice... someone/something outside the direct participants of the action that decides the results for the participants.In improv, the actors involved in the scene are the ones who create the conflict and are the ones who have to resolve the conflict.&nbsp; One offers an idea for how the conflict resolves, and the other one says &quot;Yes, And&quot;.&nbsp; In Who's Line, Drew Carey doesn't break into the middle of the scene to tell Ryan and Colin &quot;Colin, Ryan's suggestion is what you both are going with.&quot;&nbsp; Instead, the two of them agree on one of their offers and then they carry on the story themselves.Is a judge more flexible than a ruleset or a roll of dice?&nbsp; Absolutely.&nbsp; And will there be more possible outcomes with a judge's decision than a ruleset?&nbsp; Quite possibly.&nbsp; A judge that decides how chess pieces are allowed to move during a game of chess might allow for more directions than the actual rules of chess do.&nbsp; But in both cases... it's the judge/rules that will tell the two players what they can do and who ends up winning, not the players themselves.&nbsp; But in an improv scene where the characters are playing chess but the actors aren't actually playing?&nbsp; At one point one of them will probably have to make the choice to just say to their scene partner &quot;I concede.&nbsp; You got me.&nbsp; Good game!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9024777, member: 7006"] The outside judge has the same function as a ruleset and/or dice... someone/something outside the direct participants of the action that decides the results for the participants. In improv, the actors involved in the scene are the ones who create the conflict [I]and[/I] are the ones who have to resolve the conflict. One offers an idea for how the conflict resolves, and the other one says "Yes, And". In Who's Line, Drew Carey doesn't break into the middle of the scene to tell Ryan and Colin "Colin, Ryan's suggestion is what you both are going with." Instead, the two of them agree on one of their offers and then they carry on the story themselves. Is a judge more [I]flexible[/I] than a ruleset or a roll of dice? Absolutely. And will there be more possible outcomes with a judge's decision than a ruleset? Quite possibly. A judge that decides how chess pieces are allowed to move during a game of chess might allow for more directions than the actual rules of chess do. But in both cases... it's the judge/rules that will tell the two players what they can do and who ends up winning, not the players themselves. But in an improv scene where the characters are playing chess but the actors aren't actually playing? At one point one of them will probably have to make the choice to just say to their scene partner "I concede. You got me. Good game!" [/QUOTE]

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