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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9508996" data-attributes="member: 71699">I appreciate you committing the time to dive deep into this theory about TTRPG.I have one initial question. As I understand it, a theatre improv troupe is oriented toward entertaining an audience, where that audience is not identical with the troupe. Something I believe distinctive of TTRPG and what it means to be a player, is what I've called elsewhere the ludic duality. Cast in your terms, a game player is simultaneously actor and audience.If right, then there is a strong separation between theatre improv and TTRPG play. I think you could argue that the audience is a side issue, and for the improv actors themselves, they are also audiences of their own efforts. But I suspect that there would be choices made in improv for the sake of the separate audience that would never be made in game play. So that there is at least a forking of activity kinds. Against that, one might point to streamed game sessions... although I could in response identify them as occupying a space between improv and localised TTRPG (i.e. I could claim that they affirm the distinction by showing that there is such a space.)Anyway, what are your thoughts on my suggestion that improv actors have a separate audience in mind as they perform their characteristic activities, while TTRPG players do not?</blockquote>