captaincursor
First Post
Ugh... How much of D&D insider is going to have to be purchased separately? I don't mind having to buy the books, I don't mind having to pay the activation fee, I don't mind having to pay the monthly subscription fee. But according to the podcast I'll have to buy each and every mini for every monster I want to use in on the digital gaming table, and it was implied that it'll be a randomized collectible pack as well?
In real life when you play on the table it's more acceptable to use your imagination about minis that don't really match up to what the encounter is. Everyone is making assumptions, the minis you have will probably not match up to the PCs, you are there in person and abstracting it, chances are you're a little tipsy on .... mountain dew. Me I use my extensive collection of legos.
But digital medium doesn't encourage that kind of abstraction. It's already on the screen. The player characters (according to the podcast) will have minis that look exactly like they want their pcs to look like, down to the pose, to the facial expression even. And the gnolls they'll be fighting will be COUNTERS? Will I have a limited amount of minis that I can use? Will half my gnolls be represented by kobolds, and the other half by orc minis, and the ogre leading them will be a token?
BAH! Why am I paying a subscription then? It's not like I can just make do with my legos if I refuse to buy the random packs of digital content that are essentially without cost to reprint. I could understand (slightly) if this was the Minis game, where collecting out your warband was a balancing aspect of the game. But now I feel like I'm going to have pay five times the cost of each Monster Manual to just make it usable at the digital table.
If wizards is going to force us to buy the digital representations of the monsters from the books that we've already bought and unlocked I hope they will give us the option to buy the entirety of the book with one purchase and allow us to use as many copies of each miniature on the table and not try to recreate their real world minis model online. I was really looking forward to the online features, but this suddenly makes me nervous about the amount of money it would take to make it viable.
Drat.
In real life when you play on the table it's more acceptable to use your imagination about minis that don't really match up to what the encounter is. Everyone is making assumptions, the minis you have will probably not match up to the PCs, you are there in person and abstracting it, chances are you're a little tipsy on .... mountain dew. Me I use my extensive collection of legos.
But digital medium doesn't encourage that kind of abstraction. It's already on the screen. The player characters (according to the podcast) will have minis that look exactly like they want their pcs to look like, down to the pose, to the facial expression even. And the gnolls they'll be fighting will be COUNTERS? Will I have a limited amount of minis that I can use? Will half my gnolls be represented by kobolds, and the other half by orc minis, and the ogre leading them will be a token?
BAH! Why am I paying a subscription then? It's not like I can just make do with my legos if I refuse to buy the random packs of digital content that are essentially without cost to reprint. I could understand (slightly) if this was the Minis game, where collecting out your warband was a balancing aspect of the game. But now I feel like I'm going to have pay five times the cost of each Monster Manual to just make it usable at the digital table.
If wizards is going to force us to buy the digital representations of the monsters from the books that we've already bought and unlocked I hope they will give us the option to buy the entirety of the book with one purchase and allow us to use as many copies of each miniature on the table and not try to recreate their real world minis model online. I was really looking forward to the online features, but this suddenly makes me nervous about the amount of money it would take to make it viable.
Drat.
