How would you play Dungeons & Dragons without dice?

Wow. Talk about disappointing. The article AND the comments. Both are like Steve Martin’s joke about “How to make a million dollars and never pay taxes”. I was expecting some breakthrough in gaming systems that would eliminate the random number generator. But noooOOOOOooooo.

All seriousness aside, isn’t there some other way to simulate events or resolve conflicts in a game other than using random numbers or table lookup?