I think one can argue that people have been playing role playing games GM'd by computers for going on 40 years now. Going back to the gold box games in the lit

I think one can argue that people have been playing role playing games GM'd by computers for going on 40 years now. Going back to the gold box games in the literal sense, but almost all video games are essentially dungeons and dragons under the hood -- hitpoints, encounters, npcs, etc.