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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 18 2017, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the about-time dept.

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 moreā€”all 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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Celestial on Saturday March 18 2017, @04:57PM

    by Celestial (4891) on Saturday March 18 2017, @04:57PM (#480870) Journal

    I've used Roll20 to play both ICONS and Mutants & Masterminds (both super-hero tabletop RPGs), with a group of friends for three years now. It works really, really well. Roll20 is SaaS, but it's worth the money IMO.

    Still, I don't think that they're quite competition for D&D Beyond. D&D Beyond seems to be aiming to help people play Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition at the tabletop, enhance it. Not replace it, like Roll20 does. There's some overlap but that may be enough especially for people who just play Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, (which seems to be at least half of all tabletop role-players at the moment).

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