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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7622867" data-attributes="member: 996">I can't agree.&nbsp; Both the 'role' and the 'playing' refer to quite different things depending on whether you're roleplaying with a therapist, a friend-with-benefits, or a GM......or a director.&nbsp;You can improv all you want in the context of a TT wargame - or not at all - it'll have no effect on play, and at worst might annoy your fellow player &amp; the judge, if any.&nbsp; I don't think there's a lot of wargaming at improv theatre groups, nor that they'd be impressed with the thespianism of the guy in the bicorn hat, commanding his tin soldiers.&nbsp;From the little I've heard of it, sounds more like a spiritual predecessor of LARPs and quasi-RPGs like Fiasco.And, D&amp;D is generally accepted as the first TTRPG or FRPG, in the modern sense.&nbsp;OT1H, they /are/ just another sort of wargame: small scale, generally cooperative on some level, with more players, and the judge's role sucked in &amp; subverted.&nbsp; OTOH, some of those difference are notable.&nbsp; The judge becoming the GM, for instance, and the closely related (but not exactly fast or even) move towards being less competitive &amp; more cooperative, for instance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7622867, member: 996"] I can't agree. Both the 'role' and the 'playing' refer to quite different things depending on whether you're roleplaying with a therapist, a friend-with-benefits, or a GM... ...or a director. You can improv all you want in the context of a TT wargame - or not at all - it'll have no effect on play, and at worst might annoy your fellow player & the judge, if any. I don't think there's a lot of wargaming at improv theatre groups, nor that they'd be impressed with the thespianism of the guy in the bicorn hat, commanding his tin soldiers. From the little I've heard of it, sounds more like a spiritual predecessor of LARPs and quasi-RPGs like Fiasco. And, D&D is generally accepted as the first TTRPG or FRPG, in the modern sense. OT1H, they /are/ just another sort of wargame: small scale, generally cooperative on some level, with more players, and the judge's role sucked in & subverted. OTOH, some of those difference are notable. The judge becoming the GM, for instance, and the closely related (but not exactly fast or even) move towards being less competitive & more cooperative, for instance. [/QUOTE]

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