IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It's a professional body that creates industrial standards in the electronics and industrial automation fields. What would they possibly have to do with tabletop RPG standards? They wouldn't care in the slightest and it would be a complete waste of their time, as well as a waste of our time.
I found 2 IEEE papers on RPGs but they were behind paywalls, so I couldn't download the papers.
We could use something like the HL7 standard and adapt it to RPGs, this would make a framework for what is mechanical RPGs and what is creative.
An IEEE standard would be useful so that character, monster, and item data could be standardized and transmissible across platforms like from DNDBeyond to Pathfinder.
IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It's a professional body that creates industrial standards in the electronics and industrial automation fields. What would they possibly have to do with tabletop RPG standards? They wouldn't care in the slightest and it would be a complete waste of their time, as well as a waste of our time.
I think what they meant was “Should the TTRPG industry create an independent third party that standardises certain things across the industry.”
The answer to that question, of course, should be a resounding “no.” International independent standards are used because, in a global economy, you want your wire labelled X and produced in China to be the same as your wire also labelled X and produced in the United States. The international standards exist to promote consistency, trade, and safety.
Which you don’t want in the TTRPG market. You want things to be inconsistent across game groups - you want to have different options that suit different playstyles. After all, try to make comporting mechanics used by both D&D and Call of Cthulhu and you are just inviting disaster for both.
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Would developing an IEEE standard for the interchange of RPG data be more valuable than OGL or ORC?
What?
Like, really...what?
IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It's a professional body that creates industrial standards in the electronics and industrial automation fields. What would they possibly have to do with tabletop RPG standards? They wouldn't care in the slightest and it would be a complete waste of their time, as well as a waste of our time.
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I found 2 IEEE papers on RPGs but they were behind paywalls, so I couldn't download the papers.
We could use something like the HL7 standard and adapt it to RPGs, this would make a framework for what is mechanical RPGs and what is creative.
An IEEE standard would be useful so that character, monster, and item data could be standardized and transmissible across platforms like from DNDBeyond to Pathfinder.
I think what they meant was “Should the TTRPG industry create an independent third party that standardises certain things across the industry.”
The answer to that question, of course, should be a resounding “no.” International independent standards are used because, in a global economy, you want your wire labelled X and produced in China to be the same as your wire also labelled X and produced in the United States. The international standards exist to promote consistency, trade, and safety.
Which you don’t want in the TTRPG market. You want things to be inconsistent across game groups - you want to have different options that suit different playstyles. After all, try to make comporting mechanics used by both D&D and Call of Cthulhu and you are just inviting disaster for both.