
How to Use Comedy In Your Game
How to Use Comedy In Your Game To many people the prospect of playing in a comedy-driven game can be intimidating. It's one of the few styles of gaming that people will refuse to play not because they don't think they'll enjoy it, but because they don't think they're capable enough or funny enough. Nothing could be further from the truth. You no more need to be a comedian to play in a comedy game than you need to be a professional writer to play in a more serious game. Comedy gaming is all about attitude. You don't need to try and be funny, what you need to do is not disallow yourself from being funny. Think of your last game session and how many jokes the players made during the course of it. Now take the number of jokes you withheld in order to preserve the tone and multiply that by the number of players. Add this to the total and you have an idea of how many jokes come, completely unbidden, to the average game session. That's what you and your group are capable of without even tryin