Aaron Griffin hm. That’s a really interesting question.

Some of this is nar-gm type best practices, stripped of their weird social-rank gloss. Like, it’s super good to be brave about authorship as a player in a talky-talky game in a way that it miiight not be in a strong-gm trad game.

I’m a sponge when it comes to watching and learning so I’m constantly watching for what works and what folks respond well to. But at this point I couldn’t possibly even say what my first talky-talky game was, much less where I learned any of these techniques.

Some of it is improv-derived but I’m a step away from that. I’ve never taken an improv class but I’ve read a lot, and played with folks with strong improv chops.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Graham W​’s Play Unsafe here. Good read, gives you all the improv tools you’d need.