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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 more—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.
(Score: 1) by helel on Saturday March 18 2017, @09:36PM
If your players can be trusted to read and remember the powers their characters have their a might bit better then mine, at least in that regard...
Mansions of Madness requiring the app is doubly disappointing to me because I'd much rather see them work on expanding customization to make the game a better one-shot rpg where you can easily run your own adventure for the night. The mechanics of the first game (haven't played the second) offer so much promise for a simple but very hands on rpg.