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So What IS Happening to Tabletop Roleplaying Games? Dancey & Mearls Let You Know!
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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7653529" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I can see Mike Mearls's point about other distractions (like minigames on our tablets and smartphones) keeping us from investing the time in the tabletop game hobby by basically competing for that time. I think they really should start developing apps or allowing others to develop apps that would enable us to continue to interact with the tabletop game from our devices when we're away from the table. That's one thing that's seriously been missing for far too long (although I do manage to get some things done with Pathfinder on my iPad thanks to Paizo's commitment to cheap PDFs and subscriptions). They should be competing with those minigames out there to draw our time and attention back into their products.</p><p></p><p>What I'm not so sure I like is the idea that because I can run a Mass Effect mission in an hour and a half that I should compress the time it takes to play out an adventure. For ME, that's me interacting with the computer - no mediation with other players, no time sharing DMs, just me and the computer and however long it takes me (and just me) to make decisions. RPGs can only achieve that level of efficiency by having much less content than a similarly timed ME mission. And that's not very satisfying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7653529, member: 3400"] I can see Mike Mearls's point about other distractions (like minigames on our tablets and smartphones) keeping us from investing the time in the tabletop game hobby by basically competing for that time. I think they really should start developing apps or allowing others to develop apps that would enable us to continue to interact with the tabletop game from our devices when we're away from the table. That's one thing that's seriously been missing for far too long (although I do manage to get some things done with Pathfinder on my iPad thanks to Paizo's commitment to cheap PDFs and subscriptions). They should be competing with those minigames out there to draw our time and attention back into their products. What I'm not so sure I like is the idea that because I can run a Mass Effect mission in an hour and a half that I should compress the time it takes to play out an adventure. For ME, that's me interacting with the computer - no mediation with other players, no time sharing DMs, just me and the computer and however long it takes me (and just me) to make decisions. RPGs can only achieve that level of efficiency by having much less content than a similarly timed ME mission. And that's not very satisfying. [/QUOTE]
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