Project Sigil All the Deets on Project Sigil the D&D 3D Virtual Tabletop

• Danger in Dunbarrow is the adventure designed to introduced the 3D tabletop.
• Bring in any character from D&D Beyond.
• 'Mini Maker' lets you design digital miniatures.
• Assets designed to feel like buying a high-end mini or figure somewhere between painted and realistic.
• Plug in locations like graveyard, mine, town each with a premade story you can use or ignore.
• "Modding games more than making them whole cloth."
• The Level Builder is like 'the best miniatures set that you could have'. Snap together different kit pieces.
• Secret doors, traps, lifts that go up and down.
• Also use 2D tokens with artwork you have.
• Also use 2D maps.
• You can play other games with it, not just D&D.
• Have Drizzt fight Optimus Prime.
• Share content with others.
• Starting on PC, other platforms later including mobile and console.
• Will be available to try out for free.
• Closed beta coming this fall for those with a DDB account.
• Pre-order 2024 physical and digital core rulebook bundle to get a free digital gold dragon mini to 'kickstarter your Project Sigil collection'.

 

[TiQuinn]

They don’t have a problem with that, there is so much dumb hearsay from that meeting.

It has been stated many, many times throughout the years that it’s a big hurdle for D&D going back to TSR and so even if it wasn’t specifically called out as such in the meeting, it’s really tough not to attach discussions of under-monetization to that fact.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I'm pretty sure they included tablets, but in any case they're either Apple or Android so if it works on a phone it should work on tablets. How long that will take is a different question.

Tablets I consider the same as mobile

 

[TiQuinn]

Why would they?

Because it’s not a natural fit? Because they have some awareness that they’d be changing a 50 year old tabletop game that will carry a backlash? That they can avoid all of that by launching a new game that just carries the D&D brand?

 

[Zaukrie]

Because it’s not a natural fit? Because they have some awareness that they’d be changing a 50 year old tabletop game that will carry a backlash? That they can avoid all of that by launching a new game that just carries the D&D brand?

backlash? for making a VTT, and millions of people already use them? they are not changing the table top game at all by making a VTT.

 

[TiQuinn]

Huh? Project Sigil is a VTT for D&D. Why would this be a "separate game"??

This is what I was responding to.

It might be interesting to see D&D become a hybrid of Baldur's Gate (fantasy gameplay) + Fortnite (pay-to-win microtransactions).

That sounds like something different than Project: Sigil to me.

 

[TiQuinn]

backlash? for making a VTT, and millions of people already use them? they are not changing the table top game at all by making a VTT.

I’m not talking about the VTT. See my recent response above.

To me, what @Theory of Games described sounds more like the next iteration of Neverwinter Nights.

 

[Zaukrie]

I’m not talking about the VTT. See my recent response above.

To me, what @Theory of Games described sounds more like the next iteration of Neverwinter Nights.

Must have them blocked...and this thread is about the VTT, hence my confusion.....

 

[TiQuinn]

Must have them blocked...and this thread is about the VTT, hence my confusion.....

Okay it was a very different description than the VTT, and I just saw it as something else entirely

 

[Hussar]

Again, comparisons to MtG don't really follow. Part of the hobby of playing MtG is the fact that you have randomized packs of cards with which you build your deck. Randomized packs are the POINT of the game. The fact that you cannot (at least without buying from other markets) go out and buy your deck is exactly why they have randomized packs.

But a randomized pack isn't what virtual minis are about at all. We don't buy minis to play with the minis. We buy minis to play D&D. We buy cards in MtG to play with those cards. It's a totally different market. You don't go out, buy random minis, and then build and adventure around those minis. Minis are 100% secondary.

 

[MichaelSomething]

What they should sell is voice packs. I would pay good money to have my quirky shopkeeper voiced by Matt Mercer!