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RPGnet Member. I should re-read it, it was a fun read and inspirational. Maybe it will shake my deep-rooted conviction that I'm utter crap at improvisation. DannyK said:. Chapter 2: Build Big idea: Always say yes, but it never actually comes out and says that phrase, I don't think The essential assertion here is that often we block each other's ideas, so games don't go anywhere or lack energy.

So the chapter starts by exploring some reasons why we might shoot ideas down: 1. That's what we do in real life - to be safe. So it can be an unthinking pattern. Or, I think, it could be over-attaching to your character and not being willing to have anything "bad" happen to them. We're attached to what we planned, so we have to shoot down anything that doesn't fit with the plan. Our guard is up. We don't want to reveal something about ourselves, or deal with something difficult.

Notably, in this case he does acknowledge that you should shoot down ideas that you don't want in your game. I don't want to look bad. In the next section, "Build on Ideas," Walmsley returns to examples used earlier to show shooting down ideas, and shows how different they are when the ideas are embraced rather than rejected.

This is "accepting offers" for those who know that improv term. He then talks about how this is easy, and isn't, and is.

That is, the technique is easy enough to understand, but it means changing habits of play and thinking, so that's hard.

But, he says, once you get it, it gets easier, and it's the culmination of all the stuff he talked about in chapter 1. Then we have a sidebar on "Yes, And" as the embodiment of this approach, and a way to "build a story without effort. So if there's no plan, Walmsley asks, where do the ideas come from that you build on? Answer: the obvious. You say the obvious, someone else builds on it with their obvious, and so on.

To do this, your guard must be down. Again, it's all the advice so far coming together. Then there's a brief sidebar acknowledging that you might shoot down some ideas in order to build tension that gets resolved later on. Honestly, it's kind of under-developed, since it doesn't give the reader anything to go on about what makes that okay, or in what situations you'd want to do that. The final section of this chapter is "Moving forward.

But then he undercuts it, saying you probably won't always play that way, that you'll have a mix of improv style and some planning, some rules work, etc. He then hands it back to the reader to take what they like of this new style and combine it with what they like of their old way.

Then we have a somewhat blunt and awkward transition to the next chapter: Status. Chapter 3: Status Big idea: play with status in your games Ok, this chapter particularly struck me as too short to do its topic justice. I'll walk through it, but my overall feeling is that this topic is something that a lot of games don't do much with and some few specialized games really do , so it probably deserves a lot to really flesh out what it means to play with status in a roleplaying game.

Instead, it's just pretty much the status advice from improv presented with mostly examples from stories. The few examples from RPGs tend to show that status is present, but they don't really show good examples of what to do with it. Perhaps that will come later. Anyway, after a brief intro to the chapter, we have "Stories and Status" that begins "All stories, in some way, are about status. Next is a section on "Status Behaviors," which works better as advice for improv acting or LARPing than for conventional roleplaying.

You can make some use of it. But many roleplayers might find it odd to be told to touch their heads when playing a low status character - because some people's preferred play style is less acting and more describing. Meanwhile a couple of sidebars describe reasons to play low or high status characters. These are useful. Both point out the value of the character to the story, give advice to avoid common mistakes, and remind players that "you aren't your character.

Then doesn't particularly say anything to do about that. It kind of comes across as "Try this! People often hate it! Then we have "Status in roleplaying games," which basically points out that in many games, status isn't employed well.

Walmsley says this fear makes games dull. Next section: "Types of status," which defines given status e. Then that's, abruptly, it. Just another brief statement of what's up in the next chapter. I'm guessing that next chapter will build on this discussion of status. But I still feel like this is a rich enough topic that a whole book this size could be devoted to status in RPGs. Especially given that the chapter does basically nothing to say how you'd actually apply these concepts within most RPGs.

To me, that feels incomplete. But we'll see where it goes next in "Tell Stories. Chapter 4: Tell Stories I'm going to resist the temptation to get sucked into talking about definitions of stories and whether RPGs all have them or what. Below is the information that should be present in these notices. Eugene rated it it was amazing Jul 15, Often, we grauam gaming like a job. Preview — Play Unsafe by Graham Walmsley.

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Reviews 7. Please log in to add or reply to comments. Daan T. Nathan L. The writing and formatting could be improved, however the concepts contained in here make this mandatory reading for GMs and players alike in my opinion. Articulating the importance of trust and allowing yourself to be vulnerable to tell the best possi [ Michael H. The first thing that jumps at you is just how horrendous the type setting is. The second thing is how little is on each page.

Jordan R. I truly wished I clicked on the preview button to see the size of the pages before i had purchased this. Ill make this short. This book has 80 pages.