Seminal role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons looks to be going digital.
The game's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, calls its new effort "D&D Beyond", describes it as "a digital toolset for use with the Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition rules" and has given the service the tagline "Play with advantage".
Wizards' canned statement says the service will "take D&D players beyond pen and paper, providing a rules compendium, character builder, digital character sheets, and moreāall populated with official D&D content." We're also told the service "aims to make game management easier for both players and Dungeon Masters by providing high-quality tools available on any device."
Details of just what's on offer are thin, but the beta signup site for the service says subscribers will get the following features:
- A "D&D Compendium with Official Content"
- The ability to "Create, Browse, & Use Homebrew Content"
- The ability to "Manage Characters - Build, Progress, & Play"
- D&D News, Articles, Forums, & More
- Anywhere, anytime, access on any device
It will never work: psionics only travel through paper. Impotent mind flayers make god cry.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Nerdfest on Saturday March 18 2017, @02:54PM (9 children)
Anybody who's anybody moved on to Pathfinder years ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 18 2017, @03:34PM (2 children)
Rules are for noobs who need a guide to learn the game, experienced player left them behind long ago and concentrate on the role playing.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 18 2017, @05:28PM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 18 2017, @07:54PM
Heh, our group motto used to be "Yet again the GOP* foils another carefully crafted DM plot."
* We used the turn right method of mapping out dungeons.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Celestial on Saturday March 18 2017, @05:02PM
Bah. In the genre of medieval fantasy, Magic World RPG by Chaosium is king. :P
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 18 2017, @08:23PM (4 children)
Pathfinder was peachy keen if you weren't a 3E/4E fan but 5E kicks the utter crap out of it for one very simple reason: streamlined math.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 18 2017, @09:57PM (3 children)
5E is a power gamers dream for those that want to play superheros it's great!
(Score: 2) by Celestial on Saturday March 18 2017, @10:01PM (2 children)
You're thinking of Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition was pretty much a super-hero tabletop RPG in all but name.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 18 2017, @10:10PM (1 child)
If you say so, I haven't played 5e but what I looked at from the tubes sure looked like superheros
haven't really played since 2e unless you count NWN
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday March 19 2017, @12:54AM
5E is basically what you should have gotten for 4E instead of that wannabe WoW bullshit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.