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<blockquote data-quote="Texicles" data-source="post: 6308372" data-attributes="member: 6694608"><p>I definitely read this as a position for a liaison between WotC and 3rd party(ies) for digital tools.</p><p></p><p>There's a broad pool of app and software designers out there; too broad to justify WotC trying to do themselves, IMO. Division of labor FTW.</p><p></p><p>As to what those tools might be, we'll have to wait I suppose. I'm sure we'll still have DDI, but I'm not sure what they'll do with it.</p><p></p><p>The need for a super robust character creator is much less this time around, so it will probably exist, but be much less of a selling point. The core rules will be downloadable for free, so there's nothing special required there. Dungeon/ Dragon will almost certainly be delivered digitally, but again, no serious software requirements.</p><p></p><p>That leaves mobile apps, which are highly probable, and a perfect thing to connect with DDI. Character creator and character sheet for sure. Possibly a Dungeon/Dragon delivery system there because of the prevalence of reading on mobile devices.</p><p></p><p>There's also a possibility of some sort of online campaign interface, a la Obsidian Portal.</p><p></p><p>Finally there's the VTT question. I couldn't even begin to guess whether they'll try to get their own going, or be content with letting people keep using the quality options that are already available. If they do want a proprietary VTT, I wonder if they would contract it out to someone with experience like Fantasy Grounds or Roll20, and if so, how would that impact what those companies do independently?</p><p></p><p>However it shakes out, I tend to believe that they'll have to come up with some good stuff this time around for DDI, or drop the price point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texicles, post: 6308372, member: 6694608"] I definitely read this as a position for a liaison between WotC and 3rd party(ies) for digital tools. There's a broad pool of app and software designers out there; too broad to justify WotC trying to do themselves, IMO. Division of labor FTW. As to what those tools might be, we'll have to wait I suppose. I'm sure we'll still have DDI, but I'm not sure what they'll do with it. The need for a super robust character creator is much less this time around, so it will probably exist, but be much less of a selling point. The core rules will be downloadable for free, so there's nothing special required there. Dungeon/ Dragon will almost certainly be delivered digitally, but again, no serious software requirements. That leaves mobile apps, which are highly probable, and a perfect thing to connect with DDI. Character creator and character sheet for sure. Possibly a Dungeon/Dragon delivery system there because of the prevalence of reading on mobile devices. There's also a possibility of some sort of online campaign interface, a la Obsidian Portal. Finally there's the VTT question. I couldn't even begin to guess whether they'll try to get their own going, or be content with letting people keep using the quality options that are already available. If they do want a proprietary VTT, I wonder if they would contract it out to someone with experience like Fantasy Grounds or Roll20, and if so, how would that impact what those companies do independently? However it shakes out, I tend to believe that they'll have to come up with some good stuff this time around for DDI, or drop the price point. [/QUOTE]
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