Renzatic on 22/3/2017 at 16:43
I hate them so much. :mad:
Yakoob on 22/3/2017 at 21:00
Damn, I'm surprised at the hate here. I am also surprised this hasn't come sooner but hello hindsight bias. I mean, a quick way to track your char sheet, look up monster stats and do damage calculations instantly on your phone without faffing around with maths and heavy books? That just seems quite useful.
That being said, rather than forgetting plugs or whatever, I think the problem here is the loss of tactility. There is something that just feels
good about rolling physical dice, or writing on actual paper with a pencil, scrubbing old stats off with the eraser.
But then again, we probably need only wait a generation before the newagers catch on. After all, (
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/) one of the most popular card games is all virtual these days,
Pyrian on 22/3/2017 at 21:11
There are plenty of all-virtual RPG's that do just fine. Those who want to play them, do. Those who don't want to, well... Maybe they don't appreciate the intrusion?
There have been lots of "assisted D&D" applications over the years. My usual issue with them is inflexibility. Generally speaking they work well for people that follow the rules verbatim and even for those who regard the rules as merely guidelines. But those of us who tend to just flat-out make up our own supplementary rules? Much more difficult.
Renzatic on 23/3/2017 at 02:30
I wish I were ON a boat, but I'm not. I'm just in one. :(
Ostriig on 24/3/2017 at 10:49
Could see this working out for people playing over Skype, or even as a DM's handbook with CTRL+F. But then I only know of P&P from Youtube, never played.
I more wanted to register my disappointment on how WotC can be so blasé about Obsidian
eating their lunch (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIUqGbIUP6c) banging their girlfriend. I know that Beamdog's working on a couple of projects, one's possibly an EE port of either IWD2 or PST, the other may well be a new D&D CRPG, but even if the latter's true, it'd just now be entering full production given their recent staffing drive.
