ImprovGM Workshop: Honoring Stakes
Learn how improvisation can help make you a better GM or Player.
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$10.00
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2 players following this game
Once / Thursday - 11:00 PM UTC
Jul 9
Session Duration / 2 hours
5 / 15 Seats Filled
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Schedule
Meet your party members
5/15
About the adventure
Looking to improve your skills as a player or a gamemaster? Improvisation is the best skill set you can have. These will be a series of zoom workshops that teach improvisational techniques and applies them to RPGs. These will be similar to the ones I run at GenCon, focusing on creating character personalities quickly, honoring stakes, and threading stories from player actions for GMs. Improv isn’t about being quick or clever---it’s about making a strong decision and following through on the consequences. It’s an ideal skill set for improving as both a player and GM. The workshop will begin with some basic exercises to teach character and scene approach. We will then go into the more advanced skills for each class.
Game style
Roleplay Heavy
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(12)
5 years on StartPlaying
69 games hosted
Highly rated for: Inclusive, Creativity, Storytelling
Average response time: 16 hours
Response rate: 100%
About me
ImprovGM on Tiktok. I've been doing improv for over 20 years and run workshops at GenCon teaching those skills to gamers. I run a wide variety of games that focus on player run narratives that emphasize characters and emotional stakes. I've had a great time seeing how much people and scenes come alive in the workshops I've run and want to bring that to others.
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Creating your character
Not a worry. You will need to be able to open a pdf for some of the character/agenda exercises we'll end up doing.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
You'll need a webcam and a microphone.
What Mikel (ImprovGM) brings to the table
I've been doing improv since 1994 and was the found and director of Illinois State's Improv Mafia and Champaign's The Abe Froman Project. I've taught high school students and adults improv and ran workshops at GenCon, Illinois Theatrefest, and at schools. We'll be doing a series of exercises that range from preparing people for how to do improv to diving into specific skills that will aid you in your own games.
Homebrew rules
None.
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Internet
Webcam
Microphone
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Safety
How Mikel (ImprovGM) creates a safe table
The X card can be used by holding your arms together in an X during a scene. We'll also have a Lines and veils document we'll go over at the start of the workshop.
Content warnings
Safety tools used