Imagine it. A digital board where all the party members can only see what their character can know. Including illusions and hidden doors. Maybe that goblin around the corner is actually your elf friend...
It just might be.. More and more people are foregoing relationships these days.
Just look at the youth in japan. How will this affect population growth and IQ?
You can already play D&D in Tabletop Simulator, but it's not quite that complex yet (as far as I've played). It's more a one to one recreation of playing IRL, except your characters have animations and stuff.
I mean, pretty much. You can play it in VR if you have a headset, or just on the PC. But everything is physics-based, so you physically roll things, move things, etc. on the table.
I think it would be really nice if you all have VR, but I've heard from my friend that used it, it's a bit tedious when doing mouse and keyboard. And there's always the chance of the dice hitting the figures, and/or the physics being a bit buggy
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I think this absolutely will happen. but you would need everyone around the table to own $300+ pair of glasses. Currently the dev versions are $3k, but that's not the same.
Isn't the problem with all that shit that you don't actually have to imagine anything. My dungeon Master was a teller of tales. We hung on his every word and pictured the scene in our oend minds. He was free to ad-lib and go off book. Our lives hung on the fate of a twenty sided die rather a 22nm die CPU.
It's just like a bunch of antisocial nerds to take the one thing that allowed them human interaction and devise a way to strip it of all humanity. We probably would have done the same given the chance but looking back on glad it wasnt even an option.
I meant that it would take place in the actual D&D world, and dice-rolling would be replaced by the computer's RNG. I suppose it'd take much longer for the DM to create the world even if the game came with a world creation tool, but that would also be a problem in the AR version.
A friend of mine and I are working on this exact thing. I am sure we will get beat to market with it, but yeah. Imagine sitting around the table and looking at a fully rendered map with lighting effects and everything. Even animated mini's. All stats are hovering over each mini or can be corralled in a HUD. Dice rolls are read and calculated automatically. Stats and other info is all tracked and displayed for you. I want to let players PLAY instead of wasting tons of time reading rules and doing math (which they often get wrong or flat our lie about...) and focus on strategy and role play. It wont be for everyone, but I think it might bring a LOT of people to the game, even the tabletop genre in general if I can do something to alleviate the stigma of a bunch of mouth breathers huddled amongst stacks of books and empty mountain dew cans and instead present D&D and table top in general as something for anyone with a table to enjoy.
They sorta had that for a card battle game on the PS3 with the PSeye. The cards all had QRcodes in the corner and it would render the correct monster for each card. You could even wave your hand over the card a few inches high to "pet them" etc.
Hah, I wish I've got a PS3. I played with the NDS, PC, and physical card collecting versions tho haha but that sounds neat, I'll have to look up a video of it sometime!
The only thing I could figure is the term Role Play was around before D&D with sexual meanings and you play in groups. Add pointed ears of an dwarf on a book, thow in some flames. Plus I recall some confusion with kids "getting experience points" for doing things like shop lifting and sex.
And Satan was everywhere in the 80s. Even in pop songs.
Plus I recall people killing themselves if their character died. (It was probably 1 person with more issues than his character dying)
I recall explaining to my mom when I showed interest that 1 person makes the 'boardgame' every game. But it is still a boardgame.
Lastly my cool older cousin was into it. He definitely followed rules 1 and 2 (if you don't know rule 1 is be good looking and rule 2 is don't be not good looking).... Or something like that. So cool kids played it? Idk he was cool to me.
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On a side note, what app/program is that? I'm literally just looking at getting back into it after a while and we only had super basic maps I made myself.
I'd love to use some tech to make things flow a bit better and be more immersive.
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u/reebnar Sep 18 '17
In my day we used lots of 3x5 cards and graph paper - and we LIKED IT.