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If It Wasn't For...
Players improvise a barrroom song as the bar patrons and take on their role in The Bar That Wasn't There Before is an improvised storytelling game about drunken singing, nostalgic tales of someone who massively changed another character's life (as per the prompt), with simple rules to learn quickly. It can be used for different purposes such as icebreaker exercises or improvisational warmups and works well when paired up alongside other games like it in the list above!
Price:
$4.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 5 reviews)
Published:
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