Gaming
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The Mission is What the Mission Becomes
In Season 3 of Young Justice, Dick Grayson has a conversation with Will Harper while they carry out a job with Bowhunter Security, which is a security company owned by the Harpers. The scene is here if you would love to follow along, but I would love to quote a few lines as they serve Continue reading
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Initiations as a Player vs Initiations as a GM
In improv, an initiation is typically done by the person who first enters the stage. They can set the course of the scene by saying, or doing something that reveals what the relationship between two characters are, what they’re doing, where they are, and who they are. Sometimes it’s as simple as a hello, and Continue reading
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D&D Is Not Improv
There are elements of TTRPGs that lend themselves to multiple different domains. Improvised theatre, writing, game design, acting, music direction…prop making. There are a variety of supplements you can use to enhance your experience of your game at your table. As I have been taking improv classes (nearly for a year now!) and performing as Continue reading
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Failure and Cognitive Dissonance of Character
Narration. We can control how the world sounds, looks, and is through our words both as a player and a GM. As a GM however, there are certain things that are typically within our control: dice rolls. When you ask a player for a dice roll, it is typically in response to something that they Continue reading
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Repeats: A Discussion on Variation
In scene work, as discussed before, you support what your scene partner is giving you. There are similar ideas in music, especially when playing in a smaller ensemble and not everyone is playing under a conductor. You start together, and you follow one person in the ensemble. This post was inspired by a cello and Continue reading
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What is your drag?
While scrolling through the very distracting area of YouTube Shorts, I found a tidbit from an interview with Brennan Lee Mulligan about his costuming in Dimension 20’s latest production, Dungeons and Drag Queens. (It’s no secret that I’m a fan of his, and all of the lovely people at College Humor/Dropout. I mean, check every Continue reading
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Fuck the audience…?
There are many styles of improv, and different philosophies that come with that. In these varying philosophies and values, there are different sentiments on how to approach the audience. In many cases, when you are improvising, you are improvising…you are playing on a stage with your team. You may be with just a single scene Continue reading
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Grief, Anxiety, and Failure
While in rehearsals for my first bout of scripted theatre, which is quite a recent story, I knew that I was mostly off book. This meant that I knew the gist of my lines, although I wasn’t necessarily word for word. I knew the ideas that I needed to convey to carry ideas to my Continue reading
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Golf, Complex Games, and Practicing Better
Today, I played a full round of golf. This is a sport notorious for many things. While it would be fun to talk about the accessibility of the sport, and how there is such a large barrier of entry to it in the cost of starting, that is not what I want to talk about. Continue reading
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What Is Good?
In any sort of medium, space, or activity, there is the question of an objective way to measure skill, or superiority of skill. Who is the best at a thing? It is in our nature. We as people, we as humans enjoy competing in our tribes against other tribes. It’s not just unique to humans. Continue reading
About Me
An avid storyteller who enjoys all sorts of mediums for storytelling, but primarily games. I have been a Game Master since 2015, text roleplayer since the ambitious age of 8, and a reader since before that. I worry more often about my art than I should.
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