Role-play Games

Crazy Mixed-Up Country Hi-Jinks

Two teams of 3-4 players play. One team leaves, and the second team is assigned an audience-based suggestion. The team that stays performs a scene based on this suggestion. When this short, 1-2 minute scene is over, the second team comes back into the room. The players on the second team decide which player on the first scene to take the place of. After this decision is made, the first team replays their scene for the second team, but in gibberish. Based on the actions of the first team, the second team must try to reconstruct the scene in English.

Naïve Role-play

Naïve Role-play is a game that is played by 3 players. One player leaves the room where they cannot see or hear the players on the stage. The two players must then perform a scene based on an audience suggestion as if the third player was there, but invisible. When the scene is over, the third player comes back into the room. The player must do exactly what is implied based on the actions and dialogue of the other two players. The two players must perform the scene EXACTLY as it was done before; if the third player is two feet away from where they are supposed to be, the first player may not move to correspond with them or tell them to come closer.

Pile-On

Pile-On is a game in which three perform a regular scene. At the end of the scene, the ref gets suggestions from the audience for the traits to assign each player. The players Role-play the first scene with those traits. Then, at the end of the second round, they are assigned new traits. The difference between Pile-On Role-play and regular Role-play is that for the third round, the players must keep the traits assigned to them in the second round. For example, if Jordan is assigned an Australian accent in Round 2, the age of 80 years old in Round 3, and the High School stereotype of a cheerleader in Round 4, then he must Role-play the original scene as an 80-year-old Australian cheerleader in Round 4.

Role-play

Role-play is a game in which 3 players play a 1-3 minute scene based on an audience suggestion. At the end of the scene, the ref slightly alters the scene by assigning each player a trait. The ref may give the players foreign accents, contrasting emotions, stereotypes from High School cliques, ages to pretend to be, or a film type. The players will then Role-play the scene with those traits. For example, if the ref asks the audience for accents and is given French, British, and German accents, then one player would say their lines with a French accent, one with a British accent, and one with a German accent.

At the end of that scene, the ref may ask the audience for a film type and receive the suggestion of "horror film". A film type is the only suggestion for Role-play in which all players are given the same suggestion. All 3 players would Role-play the scene (the original scene, without the accents) as if it were a horror flick. The scene may be Role-played as many times as the ref feels are necessary. Suggestions from one scene do not continue into the next scene.

Countdown

Countdown is a scene game in which 3 or 4 players perform a scene based on an audience suggestion in two minutes. At the end of the scene, the players must replay the same scene, but they only have one minute to do so. The scene must begin with and end with the same lines, and no dialogue may be altered. At the end of the minute-long scene, the players will replay the same scene in 30 seconds. The scene is replayed in 15 seconds, 7.5 seconds, and, if the audience so wishes, 3 seconds.