Roleplayer (Ebook)
When Benjamin Earl tells us that he's ready to publish his strongest card effect, we listen! In effect, a spectator freely names a card, they shuffle the deck multiple times and then find that card ... and its three mates. Best of all, it happens in their hands, and apparently without the performer touching the deck!
You can present 'Roleplayer' as a magic or gambling demonstration, It only requires basic skills and it is almost entirely self-working! However, more advanced approaches—to both effect and method—are also explained.
Roleplayer is our favorite kind of ebook: a long-form (46 page ebook) approach containing in-depth technical and psychological explanations
"Everyone buy this!!!" Chris Kenner
"A Masterpiece" Rune Klan
"A gem of the highest order." Michael Vincent
Customer reviews for Roleplayer (Ebook)
Roleplayer is a perfect piece of magic that is powerful and touching. This is something that is going right into my parlor show and that I will be ending it with!
Benjamin Earl has once again succeeded in performing magic that we will all use and I believe will be used for many lifetimes after we are gone.
The very fact the spectator does 90% of the work in there hands makes this almost self working and extremely difficult to work out the method.
The psychology is extremely well thought out by Ben and he is fast becoming my favourite artist.
Ben has taken a simple idea from his book F is For Fiction and actually made it into a full performance masterpiece, that you can perform close-up, parlour, and even stage! What would it feel like for both you and your spectator to receive wonder in each and every performance. This is what this achieves! Bravo.
Masterclassmember
This is an extraordinary, totally fair feeling, piece of work that can be performed as mentalist, a gambling demonstration, “invisible” sleight of hand. Literally anything you can imagine. Brilliant.
The trick is special, but even if you don’t get anything from the methodology you can start to build a whole new framework of how to present by absorbing the passionate information he shares about empowering an audience.
This trick has inspired an entire 20 minute routine of “spectator as card cheat” where I barely have to touch the cards and my audience does all kind of spectacular things.
My brain never would have gone there is not for this material.
Mr. Earl writes with a clarity and heart that I would love to see more of in this community. He is so excited to share that you have to be excited to learn and it makes for a very enjoyable experience.
I have been doing magic for over 40 years. My wife is my toughest critic. When I performed this for her she smiled and said "Ok, that was really really good."
That said, I did really like the effect. It felt quite self working and while the introduction explained it to be script heavy, I'd say that it works quite well with any variation of the script or misdirection to get the same effect. Perhaps not the most beginner friendly trick in the world. But as the description say's: you change place with the participant for a moment, and would therefor I think work wonderfully as a closer after mostly any sett of tricks.
The ebook is very good with lots of alternative handlings of this effect.
One thing is the effect, but even better I find the psychology behind the manuscript/patter.
Easy to adapt to norwegian :)
I recommend it!
Community questions about Roleplayer (Ebook)
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Kevin asks: Hi. Can you get into this from a shuffled deck or is there some set up required?
- 1. Sgkyduyen responds:You will need some setup, but the setup is quick and I assume that we can do with a shuffled deck
Monte asks: I have read "There is this bonus effect "Red Herring"coming with RolePlayer". Is this true?
- 1. Michal responds:Unfortunately no. Vanishing, Inc. sells Red Herring as a separate effect. Red Herring is not included in the Roleplayer e-book.
- 2. Claude responds:Red Herring is well worth it's own purchase too!
Dean asks: Is there a performance link on the ebook download ?
- 1. Sgkyduyen responds:Nope! it does not come with any performance video at this moment
Dean asks: Why not sell as a download? It would have my vote for that money, I like to see the work in action to be inspired to purchase it.
- 1. Monte responds:e-book is available!
- 2. Laurent responds:Any performance by Ben Earl is inspiring. He's probably one of the few magicians of our time who can really create complete and total amazement that is coming from deep thinking and relentless dedication to what constitutes pure magic. Watch any of his coin magic videos, his deck switch or really anything you can get your eyes on. For £15 and Chris Kenner's endorsement, it's a no brainer.
Kevin asks: is this easy to do
- 1. Sgkyduyen responds:It's easy to do ;)
George asks: Can you post a link to a performance? I wouldn't buy "sight-unseen"
- 1. Sgkyduyen responds:We do not have a performance video
Alan asks: Is there a video?
- 1. Sgkyduyen responds:Nope! it does not come with a video
Elliot asks: How is this different to the answer by Ben Earl?
- 1. Vanishing Inc. Magic responds:It’s an entirely different effect. In this effect, the spectator finds four of a kind - in The Answer, the magician finds a poker hand.
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