
39: The Tricks of the Toolkit with Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit)
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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Dungeons and Dragons: A Bizarre Comparison
In Dungeons and Dragons, almost the dice rolls are the lowest stakes thing in the game. Sometimes there are high stakes moments with dice rolls, but you're just frequently getting this like huge dose of output randomness. And it's just like a constant casual thing. Whereas in poker, you get this rare, depending on how high quality of player you are, moment of like extreme output randomness in a game that's very high stakes and very high skill.
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