This is often called the Pen and Paper model of role playing games (in reference to the Dungeons and Dragons-style game play).

这种玩法通常被叫做笔和纸模式的角色扮演游戏(指的是Dungeons and Dragons形式的游戏玩法)。

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Lewis, a longtime player of videogames and Dungeons and Dragons, the forerunner paper-and-pen role-playing game, graduated with a degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993.

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