Games Give You A Chance To Excel.

There Is No Winning Or Losing, But Rather The Value Is In The Experience Of Imagining Yourself As A Character In Whatever Genre You’re Involved In, Whether It’s A Fantasy Game, The Wild West, Secret Agents Or Whatever Else. You Get To Sort Of Vicariously Experience Those Things.

Pen-and-paper Role-playing Is Live Theater And Computer Games Are Television. People Want The Convenience And Instant Gratification Of Turning On The Tv Rather Than Getting Dressed Up And Going Out To See A Live Play. In The Same Way, The Computer Is A More Immediately Accessible Way To Play Games.

Role-playing Isn't Storytelling. If The Dungeon Master Is Directing It, It's Not A Game.

I Foresee Online Gaming Changing When There Are Good Audio-visual Links Connecting The Participants, Thus Approximating Play In A Face-to-face Group.

When Ai Approximates Machine Intelligence, Then Many Online And Computer-run Rpgs Will Move Towards Actual Rpg Activity. Nonetheless, That Will Not Replace The Experience Of 'being There,' Any More Than Seeing A Theatrical Motion Picture Can Replace The Stage Play.