A pattern is established. It pops. What if it then gets put away out of play for a while? Tension, that's what. The ability to Cap a pattern takes restraint and can help increase the impact of the pattern once it returns to play. A teenage boy confronts his mother with his sinful proclivities. Mom […]
If beauty is defined by symmetries and proportional asymmetries – and it is – then we can craft beautiful trajectories in our scenes through pattern mechanics, employing triggers and caps to link heightening personal and scenic games. A scene that ends where it began - with a reformed character returnng to an old habit. A […]
We play with the three core elements of improvisation - The Details, Emotional Reactions and Patterns - in balance. We don't over-rely on being clever, which works as long as we are clever and fails us the moment we aren't. We don't over-play our emotional range with erratic characters that, at best, the audience just can't follow and, at […]