Gamasutra: Enrique Dryere's Blog – Gambling – Gamer Style
Poker players will try using mathematics and psychology to gain the edge on an opponent, and a dungeons and dragons expert will rarely let his fate be determined by a single dice-roll. … There’s just another point I’d add, and that’s the ability to passively and actively affect the probabilities (in video games ), which is rather rarer in real life.
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Gamasutra: Enrique Dryere's Blog – Gambling – Gamer Style