Happy Birthday Robot!

[firth]

Happy Birthday Robot. I was once young too, but selfish, and made mistakes. I kept my buttons and my wife at home. Soon she grew lonely and sold them. I hated her for it and plotted her demise. I quickly hired an assassin and took a buttonless vacation

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[ex_gobi]

Whoa, did you really write this by playing the game?

[firth]

Yeah, totally game generated.

I convinced my improv troupe to give an RPG a shot since we focus on storytelling. We were going to play a longer game but one of our members couldn't make it, so we held off on that. I had played Happy Birthday Robot a few times at gencon so suggested it. Those gencon runs had gone 15-30 minutes (with much more light-hearted stories) but last night's lasted about two hours with four of us playing.

They all really, really liked it though. We even talked about maybe playing it as a more frequent rehearsal warmup activity, with 15-second-ish limits on sentence creating. I'll need to make my own custom dice if we do that... :)

[ex_gobi]

Oh! You were in the infamous GenCon group! That's so awesome, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Tell me, how do you handle the down time when it's time for a player to come up with their contribution? I notice that it's a very quiet moment and the other players don't have much to do during that time. I didn't know if that was a bad thing, though. What do you think?

[majcher]

Hooray, we're infamous! :)