Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I need to talk to them about the quality of their dicelings, in that case.
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D&D (2024) New leak looks real bad
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Vaalingrade
Legend
I don't envy that programming team.
"So what does it need to do if X happens?"
"Make a judgement call."
"...Computers don't make 'judgement calls'."
"Of course they do."
"No. They do not. That's one of the biggest obstacles to self-driving cars."
"Pfft. It's not a car; it's D&D. "
"Still, the computer need to know what do to."
"I dunno, I've never played this thing before. Roll some dice?"
"To Determine...?"
~Rolls dice~ "Roll two more times and use the more preferable result."
"I'm... I'm in hell. I died and now I'm in hell."
"Oh no no no. We've been having such a hard time figuring out who we can sue for the copyright to Hell."
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Well exactly lol.
And this is why more or less inevitably we're going to see one of two situations with the 3D VTT:
1) The rules of 1D&D gradually, slowly, and incrementally get changed/adapted/modified to work better with a deterministic system, rather than one based on DM decisions.
or
2) The 3D VTT has rules that increasingly deviate from how the actual game of 1D&D is played.
But with the latter, the thing is that a lot of people will see "how the VTT plays" as gospel on how D&D is meant to be played, so the de facto effect may well be similar to the former.
Vaalingrade
Legend
I knew I shouldn't have wished for clear, consistent rules on that monkey's paw.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Right? I did as well. Really sighing about that now.
FormerLurker
Adventurer
Given the D&D Funkos, T-shirts, figures of adorable power, and non-gaming books I've purchased in the last 5 years for me and my son, it's not a bad market.
Spread out sales beyond just the RPG...
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Mind you, I don't think books are going anywhere, but the D&D business is multifaceted.
Steel_Wind
Legend
WoW got around that problem rather easily. My guess is the local FLGS or even Wal-Mart would sell them for DDB, too. I'm not trying to spread fear, but maybe a little doubt.
Anyways, something similar for DDB seems a reasonable product to address the concern you mention.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Yeah, everything a kid wants to do online nowadays has a gift card available at Target.
Those are problems for a turn-based video game, not a VTT.
Or at least no more so than for an in-person game.
