thread: 2015-03-17 : The Vengeful Demon of the Ring
On 2015-03-18, Ken Filewood wrote:
Very thought provoking.
I agree the 'Demon Player' is not a player in the usual sense. There is a tradition in game theory of treating (random) 'Nature' as a player. The 'Demon Player' is a special case of that kind. The fact that we attribute consciousness to the 'Demon Player' makes it seem different.
So what about 'semi-witting' players? E.g. an animal conditioned to make legal moves? A computer programmed to do that? A human player with less-than-complete rules knowledge? A generally knowledgeable but fallible-in-an-ordinary way player?
In many, many actual playings of some RPGs none of the players knows all of the rules.
Is there in fact such a thing as a 'fully-witting' player?
Thanks for the sweet example game.
