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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthan" data-source="post: 3482746" data-attributes="member: 20005">I want to chime in and leave my hopes for WOTC's upcoming digital offering.  For whatever it's worth, I'm not the core audience.  I haven't spent money on rpgs in more than a year and that's including the magazines.  I cannot find a group and I've always been a little intimidated by the amount of rules mastery that I feel that I would need to DM.  In spite of that, I love the idea of rpgs and continue to seek out a group online or otherwise.  So my wishlist revolves around a program (virtual tabletop or otherwise) that makes it easier to play the game.  I don't want to have to look up the rules for turning or figure out which book a spell is in.  I want an interface that will do that for us either by hotlinking abilities in an online character sheet so that when you scroll over a character ability it displays the corresponding rule text or even better making the computer do the heavy lifting of calculating the dimensions and mechanics of the action or ability.  My main goal in playing or DMing is to be able to have a good time with my friends.  I want a program that will make that easier to achieve.  While I'm wishing about that program, here's a few more requests:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An advanced toolset or option set to allow experienced DMs to tweak/add rules or at the very least to override and redesign the current scene to account for something that is not built in the rules</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I would love for there to be online adventure modules that came with maps and art that synced with the program (say battlemaps for specific areas, portraits for certain npcs, and special art for monsters for the battlemaps)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I would like for there to be a robust campaign journal feature for both players and dms.  If I'm involved in two campaigns, I want to be able to access the program and click on the campaign that I'm interested in and see who the players are and (as a DM) check their character sheets and (as a player) look over my own.  I want it to remember my health and status and little things like that.  The more it can reasonably do, the better.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I do want what a lot of people have been talking about: a robust character designing program that also stores your character online.  I would love for that to be combined with an equally robust portrait designing program that allows you to tweak and customize your character's appearance and gear.  I understand that they may be a pipe dream, but if it makes it any easier, I would be satisfied if it was just a 2-D paper doll effect as long as it had a lot of options.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I want it to support VOIP and video through webcams so that I can mimic the tabletop as much as possible.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I also want it to be usable for offline games as well.  Say a DM could run it off his labtop to help manage his responsibilities.</li> </ul>I'm not worried about the other content.  WOTC has a long history of making some amazing and inspiring work that really sparks creativity.  I want to see that continued online, but I have no reason to doubt that.  My big question mark is whether or not I would have the opportunity or need to use that content and without the program above, I don't find it likely.</blockquote>

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