Re: Less jokes, puns, and sillyness in your PBF vs live games?
Sort of...
It was AGES ago (30+ years). One of my best friends was going to be enrolling at another university about two hours south of where we lived, and needed to go down for an on-campus-job fair to get an interview. I have family that lives in the area, so we drove down together...
On the drive, we resumed a game that we'd started several months earlier. I say it was sort of freeform because it was based on the AD&D game that we'd been playing through most of high school (he was the DM). There wasn't a "next chapter" to the game...so he started making one up. I didn't have my character sheets, so the characters were being played more or less from memory. Most of the actions taken were just me explaining what I wanted to do and him deciding whether or not it would work...if we needed a random result, I flipped a coin (sometimes repeatedly) to resolve the result.
This particular style of play started when a youth group we were both in had put together a Christmas tree to auction at a charity event...we were in the middle of decorating it and somehow decided to spin up a 'sequel's for my characters from the D&D game. Everyone else ended up listening to us spin this mutually-created fantasy adventure for close to three hours, before we got back home...and then, on the drive down to the job fair, we started again...for another hour and a half on the drive down, the entire time we were waiting in line so he could get his interview number, the drive to my cousin's house from the university, then back to the university the next morning, the time waiting for his interview, and then the two-hour drive home. All totalled, it was probably a solid 8-10 hours of just role-playing, with no rulebooks, no character sheets, no maps, no modules, and only a quarter to resolve any random-number generation. And for most of the time, we had some kind of audience, that initially looked at us like we were being weird, and then got sucked into the adventure.
One of the coolest gaming experiences I've ever had.