Tabletop Roleplaying Games as Procedural Content Generators
  Tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) and procedural content generators can
both be understood as systems of rules for producing content. In this paper, we
argue that TTRPG design can usefully be viewed as procedural content generator
design. We present several case studies linking key concepts from PCG research
-- including possibility spaces, expressive range analysis, and generative
pipelines -- to key concepts in TTRPG design. We then discuss the implications
of these relationships and suggest directions for future work uniting research
in TTRPGs and PCG.
