Ok, now this is probably an incredibly newbish question, which is exactly why I''m writing it here; But how do I make the CPU pause? In this text-adventure game, there is a lot of text (in a text-adventure game of all places!). But I need the computer to pause so that the user can read and catch up on the story. When I insert a (cin), it never goes to the next paragraph.

well, you could do something like this:
system("pause")

which calls the DOS "pause" program.

Otherwise, look into getline().


Don''t listen to me. I''ve had too much coffee.