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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor Azer" data-source="post: 519169" data-attributes="member: 870">Actually, game theory deals quite heavily in games of imperfect knowledge. True, it's much better defined for games of perfect knowledge, but then, what isn't better defined when you know everything? Often in game theory, even the toy games used to illustrate the theories, a player doesn't know what strategy (or possibly even the goal) his opponent will be using (aiming for). This by no means necessitates that game theory be inapplicable.The larger problem I see in applying game theory to role-playing games, is that most game theory research is centered around competitive games rather than cooperative games. I believe most people can agree that role-playing games are a cooperative game (some people may see it as a players v. game master, but it's not intended in such a fashion), and game theorists generally find competitive game theory more interesting to research (or at least, more fruitful) than cooperative game theory. That's not to say cooperative game theory research does not exist (it does, and I'm using some of it in my Masters degree research), but it's much harder to find than competitive game theory research.</blockquote>