Lets Not

This improv game is in the following improv game categories:

Narration

Lets Not

Description

Excellent game to train narrative skills, but a bit controversial.

Play in pairs: start with a location (e.g. a beach). One player give the suggestions (e.g. let`s find a talking crab). The other player either accepts the offer, and both play accordingly, or refuses the offer. When an offer is refused the first player needs to make a better offer.

Notes

This is a bit controversial in the sense that players may object to refusing offers; after all, we teach players to accept offers. Explain that the goal of this exercise is twofold:

teach players to drop their own ideas (see Chivalry ) and happily change course in their story
teach players which offers are `fun` and which ones are not. The player accepting or refusing the offers should accept any offer that `feels good` or that advances the story, and only reject offers that don`t sound like fun or don`t seem to offer any potential for an interesting story.

See Ding and Yes Lets - or Rather Not for similar exercises.

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy --- Yamamoto Tsunetomo