[UA] Improv

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

In case anybody's interested, some of the principles
for improv which have been argued over for the last
couple days can be found at these websites:

http://www.mailbag.com/users/east/impint.htm

and there's one other one about gigs, outs,
stops/blocks and roping put out by some ren fair site,
but I can't remember it right off the bat

and here's an article on them
http://torontoimprov.yesand.com/Improv_On_Line.html

--- Cassady Toles <Con_Job at excite.com> wrote:
> 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.

You character is defined by your reaction to the focus
and the way your respond to other people's statements
about you, that is true, but the reaction is up to
each individual player.

Now, admittedly, I could create a character who
constantly reacted to the frustration of finding out
that everything he knew was wrong, but, frankly, I
don't want to do that anymore.  Paranoia is a great
game, but I only like playing Paranoia when, well, I'm
playing Paranoia.  I don't like playing Paranoia when
I'm an Entropomancer/Avatar of the Fool Bike Messenger
or a Bruce Lee Akhashic Brotherhood knock-off or a
sensitive Nosferatu or Dr. Chia, the space
monkey/ship's surgeon.

Crap.  My wife wants me to get off the computer now.



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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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