Just like those hapless engineers who realize Skynet has achieved self-awareness inTerminator 2, we live under the belief that, when it comes to machine sentience, we’ll know it when we see it. And, as far as most people are concerned, we ain’t see it yet. ...
” as a form of giving the players “control.” But in the absence of a firm choice or a chance to hedge the outcome or a knowledge of what the stakes are, dice actually steal control. And GMs also value randomness because they don’t benefit from much hidden information beyond the pla...