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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7468590" data-attributes="member: 22779">Exactly.  Well said.  I used the computer OS analogy, but, this fits rather well too.The RPG in question will obviously influence the kind of game you create - just like using a different ball will create a different game or using Uno cards instead of a pack of Bicycle cards will create a different game.  But, at the end of the day, the game that you play is something that you've used the rules of the RPG to create, rather than playing the RPG directly.Even more limited RPG's, like, say, Dying Earth (incredibly fun game btw) will very quickly diverge from that starting point to where each table will be playing a very different game.  RPG's are game creation engines.</blockquote>