Gaming Groups and their OS's

[Tazawa]

I'm the DM. I own a non-Intel Mac so I won't be even able to use the DI through Boot Camp or an emulator.

Which is a real shame. I was a subscriber to both Dragon and Dungeon and would be interested in a lot of what the DI offers. I'm not going to subscribe to something if I can only use some of it and I'm not going to buy a new computer to play D&D.

 

[Abstraction]

I am a mac DM. I refuse to buy expensive hardware of software just because the features of this DDI are pretty neat. WotC, listen to us Mac DMs. There is nothing so graphically intensive in the demos you showed us to warrant using such a limited model to express them. Get working on the port now and make sure it works.

 

[Baron Opal]

5/8 of my group uses Windows.
1/8 plays with Linux (counted above).
2/8 shares a Mac laptop.
1/8 does not own a computer.

It is highly doubtful that I would use the DDI for my group. I could only imagine that I would use some printouts, perhaps.

 

[SteveC]

I'm going to answer "everyone uses Windows," even though that is not the case: many of my friends use Macs, Linux, Amigas (still!) and so on. At the same time, if we decide to sit down and play a virtual tabletop game, they're all going to find a way to make that happen and be a part of it.

--Steve

 

[Kunimatyu]

I'm going to answer "everyone uses Windows," even though that is not the case: many of my friends use Macs, Linux, Amigas (still!) and so on. At the same time, if we decide to sit down and play a virtual tabletop game, they're all going to find a way to make that happen and be a part of it.

--Steve

Am I the only one who sees the contradictions in this statement?

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

Am I the only one who sees the contradictions in this statement?

No.

 

[Hussar]

I have one player on a dual boot Mac, and everyone else is on a PC. So, no worries here.

 

[Maggan]

I'm a Mac person, but I have access to Parallells, which means I can run Windows on my mac if I want to, or just grab one obsolete win-pc out of the storage and set it up as a D&D Insider machine.

So even though I don't normally use Windows, I voted for the first option, since having the tabletop be Windows only won't be an insurmountable problem for me.

/M

 

[cthulhu_duck]

Mac OS X at home, Windows at work - not that it matters, since our corporate policies discourage the installation of non corporate software.

Among our group, we have one or two windows users whose machines aren't likely to meet the minimum specs - and who wouldn't upgrade for 4E.

 

[resistor]

I use Macs myself, and another person in my group uses Macs and Linux. Both of us being techy types, we both have access to multiple solutions (Bootcamp, VMWare, Crossover) that allow us to run Windows applications if necessary. However, I have no plan of paying (particularly in a subscription model) that I have to go to extensive effort (rebooting into Windows, starting up VMWare, or using semi-flakey compatibility systems) to use.