Role-playing game
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A type of game in which one person, usually called the DungeonMaster or GameMaster (also written DM and GM), directs one or more players through a made-up world. Typically, the GM will describe a situation and it is up to the players to decide how their characters will react.
An extension to this is a Computer role-playing game (CRPG), in which a team of designers, programmers, graphic artists, and sound engineers work out a way to teach the computer to play the role of GM. One advantage for RPGs that are not diceless is that all the tedium of die-rolling and calculating outcomes is handled for the players by the software.
-- MarkMusante - 11 Sep 2002
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