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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5180174" data-attributes="member: 4937">While I think that if you are going to use improvisation to have a special meaning you should set out that special meaning and not quibble when someone uses the term according to its common usage, it's not like the term 'Illusionism' as it refers to designing and managing RPG's is itself obscure.  The fact that the blog that provides a definition of a peice of technical jargon is 'obscure' is simply an ad hominem attack on the blog.That said, while 'Illusionism' is a well defined term of art, I know of no such special definition for 'Improvisation'.   Any time the term 'improvisation' is used, I would first assume the common usage of the word:"the act of composing, performing or delivering without previous preparation"Now interestingly, 'Illusionism' is not often 'Improvisation', but the two terms aren't mutually exclusive.  The technique Fifth Element describes seems to me like it is arguably both.   It is both composing and delivering without previous preparation, and it is altering the unpainted part of the world for metagame reasons in order to maintain the appearance of versimilitude, coherence, player agency, and/or player success where none actually exists.</blockquote>