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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 ShadowSystems on Sunday March 19 2017, @02:01PM

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Sunday March 19 2017, @02:01PM (#481134)

    My friends & I found a great way to reduce the wear & tear on our sheets, dispite all the corrections & updates you make during a session.
    Fill the sheet out in pencil, slip into a plastic "sheet protector" like what you would use for a high school book report, & then mark on the plastic with wet erase markers.
    HP changes get done in the marker, then the sheet updated *once* at the end.
    Repeat this for everything that changes frequently, so you only ever do the erase & rewrite bit once per session.
    We even used different color markers to represent different values, like bright red for the HP, green for the GP, black for the XP, brown for temporary bonus/penalty modifiers, etc.
    It turned the sheet into "rainbow barf", but it meant the character sheets lasted far, far longer than before.
    You just have to be careful not to accidently smudge/erase something with a swipe of the hand, since the wet erase markers are designed to come off easily.

    Hope that helps!

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