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## Strong Opinion
It’s always entertaining to watch someone having a strong opinion, and to play as a character who has one. It's better when your character has a point of view they are committed to, when they have something they sincerely and passionately care about.

Even when you don't naturally have a strong opinion about something, you can just deliberately adopt an arbitrary one, and watching you improvise will get much more interesting.

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A player gets a one-word suggestion, such as "dogs", "pizza", "roadtrip", etc.

Your goal is to make a compelling and passionate rant about this subject for 1-2 minutes. You can do it as yourself, or in-character. The strong opinion you adopt can be positive (being passionately obsessed about the subject), or negative (the subject could be your biggest pet peeve), or it could be some specific point of view or belief that your character cares deeply about.

The important part is to make your rant engaging, and to sound like your character cares deeply about the subject (adding emotion and body language helps).

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As a group, the players come up with 3 suggestions:

1. A strong opinion on some silly subject for a debate - “Aliens built the pyramids”, “Showers are not necessary”, “Child labor builds character”, “Ostriches are going to take over the world”, “Schindler's list is the best date movie”, etc. (stay away from real-world politics, religion, and other sensitive topics).

2. Two silly characters (“Uptight British butler”, “Overzealous salesman”, “Stern father”, “Condescending therapist”, “Baron Munchausen”, etc).

Two players play as these characters, adopt the polar opposite opinions on the subject, and have a passionate debate about it for 1-2 minutes.

(inspired by [absurdum](https://absurdumgame.com/)).

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