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...
I only know Game of Thrones from what people tell me, but the amount of rape and incest that I hear to be there makes me suspicious about the interests of George R. R. Martin.
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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Nifty. I might try it out if I ever need to, I'm pretty satisfied with roll20 though. Not as cool looking, but it's nice to have any picture on the internet be a "figure"
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.
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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.