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<blockquote data-quote="Chuangel" data-source="post: 4238150" data-attributes="member: 56274">Check out this link here:<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/surface/" target="_blank">www.microsoft.com/surface/</a>Now imagine that this technology takes off and all of our coffee tables turn into computers with a surface touch interface. Imagine the possibilities for great D&amp;D software that could be put on it! You could have your character sheets right there (and re-sizable), a battle grid that you can reveal as you go along, zoom in and out, and change as you need it. You could just touch a part on the character sheet and it would roll an attack roll for you and give you the result. You could use normal miniatures and put them on the battle grid or use virtual miniatures that are generated from the software. You could pull up the core books to look up rules at the touch of a button, the DM could have his own interface behind the DM's screen with monster stats popping up and disappearing as he needs them, tracking initiative and hp. Oh the greatness it would be!Of course, it will be a good ten years before this is even realistic, but I'll still be playing D&amp;D then... software engineers, get on it!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chuangel, post: 4238150, member: 56274"] Check out this link here: [url]www.microsoft.com/surface/[/url] Now imagine that this technology takes off and all of our coffee tables turn into computers with a surface touch interface. Imagine the possibilities for great D&D software that could be put on it! You could have your character sheets right there (and re-sizable), a battle grid that you can reveal as you go along, zoom in and out, and change as you need it. You could just touch a part on the character sheet and it would roll an attack roll for you and give you the result. You could use normal miniatures and put them on the battle grid or use virtual miniatures that are generated from the software. You could pull up the core books to look up rules at the touch of a button, the DM could have his own interface behind the DM's screen with monster stats popping up and disappearing as he needs them, tracking initiative and hp. Oh the greatness it would be! Of course, it will be a good ten years before this is even realistic, but I'll still be playing D&D then... software engineers, get on it! [/QUOTE]

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