"Animated Dungeons & Dragons Boards Look Like The Future" Topic
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Tango01 | 21 May 2018 9:46 p.m. PST |
"Paper? Cardboard? Plastic models? That's some 20th century D&D The adventures of the future look like this. Dynamic Dungeons is a one-man effort to get tabletop gaming looking as good as possible through the use of animated maps. Birds fly overhead, water rolls in, that sort of thing. Here's a woodland scene, for example, that has wind in the trees, wandering animals and the ability to transition from day to night…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Flashman14 | 22 May 2018 2:56 a.m. PST |
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Cacique Caribe | 22 May 2018 3:30 a.m. PST |
A video game then? Like playing on top of a tv screen? Dan |
Striker | 22 May 2018 3:38 a.m. PST |
Some of the current tech tools for D&D are slowing the game down, at least what I've seen in our group. Changing screens, moving players, etc go faster, or can be ignored, without the screen. |
Tango01 | 22 May 2018 10:56 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
Eclectic Wave | 22 May 2018 2:49 p.m. PST |
If you put RFID chips in the miniature's bases, and then had a RFID chip reader in the screen, the miniature's could then interact with the animated screen. There is a Samuel Delaney Book (I think it was called Triton), that had the main character playing a very complicated strategy game that worked pretty much like that. The pieces would interact with the board, strengthening your position or weakening the opponents, depending on where what was placed where. Never went into too much detail on the rules, but the description of the pieces changing how the board moved was very interesting. |
goragrad | 22 May 2018 5:32 p.m. PST |
Years ago at the club guys were discussing projecting a map don with sections dark until explored. Obviously with improvements in technology among other things increasing the size and reducing the costs of screens this looks more practical. The Skylander game has a small screen where players set different pieces as they change characters – not much of a step then to making an interactive map screen. With a large screen (or integrated screens) this could be done for naval battles. |
Tango01 | 23 May 2018 12:36 p.m. PST |
Good idea!. Amicalement Armand |
javelin98 | 23 May 2018 7:01 p.m. PST |
My group actually did this with the LCD projector from the DM's church. He mounted it on the ceiling pointing down at the table and then hooked his laptop to it. I think he used PowerPoint to make the maps and then covered unrevealed portions with black shapes, which he deleted as the party progressed. It would be even better today with a pocket-sized LED model with Bluetooth connectivity. |
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