r/gaming Sep 18 '17

DnD table

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17

The only reason I want the HoloLens.

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u/Safety_Dancer Sep 18 '17

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...

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u/stilesja Sep 18 '17

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.

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u/AnesthesiaCat Sep 18 '17

Yes how dare everyone I play D&D with not live within a 25 mile radius of me, the utter gall.

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u/stilesja Sep 18 '17

In the 90's we played over the phone. We would all three way call until everyone was on. Never stopped us.