Re: [Open_Gaming] [ogf-d20-l] New to the list and have questions already

[Mike Looney]

>Interactive Game is defined in such away I can't think of any software that
>it doesn't describe.
>
>""Interactive Game": means a piece of computer gaming software that is
>designed to accept inputs from human players or their agents, and use rules
>to resolve the success or failure of those inputs, and return some
>indication of the results of those inputs to the users."

There is a large amount of software that can be D20 and still NOT be an 
interactive game.   Nothing that is used in "real time" as it happens, but a 
short list would include:

DM Support software (i.e. one that generates random stuff/monsters/treasure 
in a room)

Dungeon/Adventure/Character/NPC Database programs

Campaign Calendar programs

Mapping Software

I'm working on several of these...


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