It’s nearly on a par with: " 60% of the time, it works every time"
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“Richard the Third was the Deadpool of the Shakespearean universe.”
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I somehow struggle seeing Richard the Third breaking the fourth wall and cracking jokes…
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Oh no, it’s literally in there. Definitely turns to the audience and announces that he’s decided to be a villain, and then after MUHAHAHA when they ask him to be king he says “I thank god for my humility…” while doing a pious face. It doesn’t SAY to wink at the audience while you do this, but it’s basically there.
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Man, I have to see more Shakespeare on the theatre…
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To the audience 4th wall break: “Whaaat? Sure, I had her father and brother killed, but the best way to make it up to her is to marry her.” (To move up the line to be king)
To the audience, telling them his plans: “But I will not keep her long…” (I’ll murder her like the others)
“Spread the news that Anne, my queen, is sick and will probably die…” (Audience knows she’s not, he’s going to do another murder)
Anyway, that’s only the interactive version I’m familiar with, might be different in the full thing, but Richard could be remarkably Deadpool depending on how it’s done!
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I know very little about Shakespeare, but I do know that his characters addressing the audience is definitely a thing.
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“Ohhhhhh no it’s not!”
(amidoingitright?)
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“I guess that’s when the Earth implodes.”
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“Behind this scheme is a vast network of Mafiosos, psychics, strip club owners, and Mormons.”
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“That Ford has a great engine once you fix it.”
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They tend to do amazingly well when you swap the Ford badge by a Mazda one…
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“And now, [name], our driver, oh sorry, not just a driver, [department] [name], what is it you do?”
“I’m a typist”
“Typist, and excellent driver, will sing the Qatar national anthem, which he learned to welcome our guest arriving this week. Just the first 30 seconds or so, please.”
[impressive rendition of the Qatar national anthem]
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“I must remember to chuck my bananas.”
“That sounds like a euphemism for going crazed.”
later…
“[Work colleague] is driving me insane!”
“Have you chucked your bananas?”
I think I’m going to try to maintain this one…
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Let me write that down: I think you may have given me the climax for my Monday night high fantasy game.
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The CROSS TIME ENGINEER (an alternate history series in which a timetravelling geek causes Poland to save civilization) has the protagonist introducing a base 12 variant of Arabic numerals, so you’re not entirely alone. The said protagonist admits that though he invented it he was never entirely able to get used to the New Arithmetic.
I never really grasped Farenheit for weather so I let go of that early but I’m still trapped with it mentally for taking my temperature. I can’t visualise distances from numbers in any system so I always feel like a fraud when players ask me how far away their target is in RPGs. (I really should shift to a game that uses descriptive ranges.)
I can use metric in cooking: American ‘cups’ and ‘spoons’ baffle me.
But then I am so old that I remember the Scaffold doing the campaign song for the decimalisation of the 1970s and my school exercise book had a table on the back explaining how many yards to a mile and how many rods to a perch.
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It’s the Dutch you have to keep an eye on. If you don’t they’ll be sailing up the Medway again.
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I am proud of those bits of GMing I’ll have you know! You don’t get GMing like that with these modern games!
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“The candle is this game’s seahorse.”
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I remember an editorial from Dragon magazine in the late 1980s, where the editor was quoting bits from letters readers sent in about their campaigns. He wasn’t sure why readers did this, since they never asked for or printed any of them, but it kept happening. A few lines stuck in my memory:
“What exactly is a pantheon, and why is it angry with me?”
And in many, many of these letters: “But I’m already dead!”
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