Karen Twelves
Improvisational acting teaches many skills that can make your game rock, like enthusiastic collaboration, creating dynamic stories and characters, making bold choices, and taking narrative risks. But it’s not just for players! In this workshop we’ll be doing some fun and easy improv exercises to practice GM skills like rapid characters, pacing and cutting scenes, […]
Many of the skills used by improvisational actors to tell compelling stories on stage can also be used by live-action roleplayers to create engaging in-game experiences. We’ll try some fun and easy improv exercises that explore skills specifically relevant to larping—shifting status, full-body characters, sharing the spotlight, and working with invisible objects. Beginners to improv […]
You may have heard that improv and roleplaying have a lot in common. It’s true! You can apply many of the same skills used in improvisational acting to make your game rock, like creative collaboration and taking risks to drive your story to unexpected places. We’ll explore improvisational acting as it applies tabletop roleplaying through […]