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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9507478" data-attributes="member: 7028554">Unless you're talking about GMless games, your regular assertions that the principles of improv inherently apply to RPGs are on incredibly shaky and unproven ground. To be more specific, the GM-player dynamic totally wrecks that framing.But even setting that aside (which I don't think we actually can), what's your goal in repeatedly pushing this overall point? Are you imagining that even 0.5 percent of the people reading these posts are deeply invested students of improv? I mean, improv, now? What decade are we in? Who's Line isn't even on the air anymore. UCB has been creatively and financially gutted. I suppose AP casts are pretty heavy on improvisers, but APs don't generally care all that much about game/design theory, game mechanics, or even improv theory.I'm just a little mystified at all this effort related to such an ultra-niche topic, when the whole thing is based on a connection that, try as you might want it to, doesn't really exist. Until Del Close rises from the grave and invents a new improv form where he's yes-and-ing and no-but-ing improv troupes in the moment, acting as a central referee and improviser-of-supporting-characters, basically a supreme troupe leader with special powers, you're inventing the axiom upon which all of your arguments are based.</blockquote>