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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7470788" data-attributes="member: 996">Different dealers could toss in different house rules, of course.&nbsp; It's a good example, because it's a conventional card game, played with the conventional deck, but with a tremendous amount of variation, and a powerful metagame.&nbsp;Games 'created' from a core rule system like d20 are hardly unconnected to d20.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lowball isn't /that/ oddball, OK, it's a little odd... but a variation on D&amp;D where you win a fight be reaching 0 hps first, or start at 20th and level down to 1st, would be a lot odder.&nbsp; No, but you can play crazy-eights (similar to Uno), with the same deck as you would poker...&nbsp; ...now, I was going to say that you can't play, say, Traveler with D&amp;D rules, but there /are/ RPGs with which you could fairly accurately play other RPGs, by not only modeling all the same characters, challenges, and setting info, but also while aping the other game's system artifacts......it's a tad hilarious to do, actually.&nbsp;A lot changes going from one table to another, most tellingly the other players - extremely important to the poker metagame - but specific table rules, the ante &amp; betting limits, etc...&nbsp; ...you actually can jump from one table to another at AL with minimal disruptions, not quite as readily as Encounters, but it's pretty doable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7470788, member: 996"] Different dealers could toss in different house rules, of course. It's a good example, because it's a conventional card game, played with the conventional deck, but with a tremendous amount of variation, and a powerful metagame. Games 'created' from a core rule system like d20 are hardly unconnected to d20. Lowball isn't /that/ oddball, OK, it's a little odd... but a variation on D&D where you win a fight be reaching 0 hps first, or start at 20th and level down to 1st, would be a lot odder. No, but you can play crazy-eights (similar to Uno), with the same deck as you would poker... ...now, I was going to say that you can't play, say, Traveler with D&D rules, but there /are/ RPGs with which you could fairly accurately play other RPGs, by not only modeling all the same characters, challenges, and setting info, but also while aping the other game's system artifacts... ...it's a tad hilarious to do, actually. A lot changes going from one table to another, most tellingly the other players - extremely important to the poker metagame - but specific table rules, the ante & betting limits, etc... ...you actually can jump from one table to another at AL with minimal disruptions, not quite as readily as Encounters, but it's pretty doable. [/QUOTE]

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