Directed Emergent Drama vs. Pen & Paper Role-Playing Games
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This is a position paper on the difference in role-playing between Computer-Based Role-Playing Games (CB-RPGs) and Pen & Paper Role-Playing Games (PP-RPGs) and how the architecture of the Directed Emergent Drama (DED) engine will facilitate more of the core characteristics of PP-RPGs than current CB-RPGs do.
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