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Tips for Improv: Reacting and Responding to Players’ Unexpected Choices Part 3

Tips for Improv: Reacting and Responding to Players’ Unexpected Choices Part 3

Update: 2025-12-11
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Welcome back to How to Be a Better DM.

Today we continue talking about improv. We finish our tips for responding to player choices and actions.

Here are the tips:

  1. ​The Rule of Intent
  2. ​Yes AND
  3. ​Spark or Prompts
  4. ​Take Pauses and Breathes
  5. ​Take Advantage of Cool Moments
  6. ​Outsource to the Players
  7. ​Maintain the tone or Subvert it


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Tips for Improv: Reacting and Responding to Players’ Unexpected Choices Part 3

Tips for Improv: Reacting and Responding to Players’ Unexpected Choices Part 3

Justin Lewis