kitsune9
Adventurer
I agree with this. An economy of scale needs to kick in for these prices to drop.
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I agree with this. An economy of scale needs to kick in for these prices to drop.
the Jester
Legend
I so thought this thread was spam at first.... 
Awesome.
Awesome.
Aeolius
Adventurer
Of course, that's what they said about the DigiScents iSmell :
I'm fairly certain it was the prospect of receiving e-mail spam that smelled like actual smell that sank the iSmell.
El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
I'm fairly certain it was the prospect of receiving e-mail spam that smelled like actual smell that sank the iSmell.
That would have definitely made it a no
nedjer
Adventurer
Posted on this last year: RPG E-Commerce and 3D Printing
There are some links out to places working with chemical, glass, metal, organic printing. So you'll be able to play Genestealer and print a new kidney or a Frankenstein functionality miniature ogre before long. There's not an awful lot to stop them being used to print brains. Which is one of the options for groups modelling consciousness at IBM, as working with chemical and organic components may get dramatically better results than the 20 secs of mouse thought captured so far.
You don't want a spare brain - fair enough - they already do castles, floorplan components, etc . . . Sorry for the over-enthusiasm, but these things look like they'll dwarf the change resulting from the 2d technologies over the last decade.
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Still how many miniatures or dungeon walls does one have to print, to break even?
Imagine sending off a customized miniature plan of your latest character to a person who has a makerbot and also does painting. Or, someone who does displays having a maketbot to craft every figure in a scale model for a museum to match a classic oil painting tableau. Lots of ways this can do more than just print a pile of orc minis.
nedjer
Adventurer
Imagine sending off a customized miniature plan of your latest character to a person who has a makerbot and also does painting. Or, someone who does displays having a maketbot to craft every figure in a scale model for a museum to match a classic oil painting tableau. Lots of ways this can do more than just print a pile of orc minis.
Don't encourage me
Colouring and texturing materials is a key area of research - as a spin-off figures will get many coloured and surfaced clcikable parts pretty soon.
Meanwhile even small figure manufacturers will be able to attach a very simple precision spraypaint circuit board to a machine and spray paint countless figures at minimal cost.
From there the need to compete and introduce features will see circuits embedded in the plastics for tablet 'control and lifestream your 3D puppy/ dragon, unicorn' apps. The language processing will allow your child to search the Internet by talking to the unicorn and the unicorn will toggle between speaking to you and whatever unicorns speak. This will all be fed straight into Fbook to build an immense gaming lifestreak that allows games companies to predict what games you want, thereby allowing expensive playtesting and consultation to serve as inexpensive marketing.
Might also be why Hasbro will keep the D&D brand alive even if 5e struggles, because everyone wants their own flight of dragons buzzing around like a bunch of Ioun Stones.
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