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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1569322" data-attributes="member: 10201">There's one huge difference. If i sell a computer that can't run existing software, people literally can't use the computer until some software exists. There's no such thing as an &quot;incompatible&quot; RPG in the sense that there are incompatible computers--RPGs don't even reach the level of incompatibility of two word processors for the same OS. Any two RPGs are perfectly interoperable, because they use the same &quot;operating system&quot; (human mind) and the same language (English, at least in the US). Two RPGs are, generally speaking, more like The GImP and Photoshop than like a Wintel computer and a Mac: they operate on the same basic data bits, they just do it a little bit differently. Genre and setting are *much* bigger obstacles to interoperability between RPG books than system, with a few exceptions (things that actually *are* different, like Everway, Over the Edge, Hero Quest, or Story Engine).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1569322, member: 10201"] There's one [b]huge[/b] difference. If i sell a computer that can't run existing software, people literally can't use the computer until some software exists. There's no such thing as an "incompatible" RPG in the sense that there are incompatible computers--RPGs don't even reach the level of incompatibility of two word processors for the same OS. Any two RPGs are perfectly interoperable, because they use the same "operating system" (human mind) and the same language (English, at least in the US). Two RPGs are, generally speaking, more like The GImP and Photoshop than like a Wintel computer and a Mac: they operate on the same basic data bits, they just do it a little bit differently. Genre and setting are *much* bigger obstacles to interoperability between RPG books than system, with a few exceptions (things that actually *are* different, like Everway, Over the Edge, Hero Quest, or Story Engine). [/QUOTE]

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