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) by Celestial on Saturday March 18 2017, @04:57PM
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).