[UA] Never say die (was OOC Knowledge and Never saying No (was Players screwed over))

[Cassady Toles]

On Thu, 10 May 2001 01:59:14 -0700 (PDT), ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  What's an honestly clever idea?

UA hasn't been around long enough to be rife with the cliches of other
gaming systems:  Typical cliches from White Wulph (only say yes studios)
include the Akashic brother who is a cheap knock off of bruce lee, jet li,
or Jackie Chan,  The Salubri Infernalist/diabolist, the werewolf
eco-terrorist, the ugly homeless nosferatu with the heart of gold, the
toreador martial artist/swordsman/gunfighter, the troll knight...

Something that I haven't heard fourteen times would be honestly clever.
  

  --- Cassady Toles <Con_Job at excite.com> wrote:
  > 
  > On Thu, 10 May 2001 01:29:11 , ua at lists.uchicago.edu
  > wrote:

  See, this is how I usually feel about GMs who tell me
  my interpretation of my character is wrong or groups
  who won't do anything for fear the GM will humiliate
  them -again.  It's even worse in LARPs, which really
  do need to open up with a few "break the ice"
  exercises, but never do.

I'm just saying that if you want to compare the "rules" of improv with the
"rules" of an RPG, be willing to accept all of it.  The rules of improv are
that you say yes to everything, but they are also that your character is
defined as much or more by other people than yourself.  You can't have it
both ways.  If you want to play in a game that doesn't suck, you either have
to accept no at the beginning or accept changes at the end.  Otherwise you
have the ten million bad larps out there.
  
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