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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 4754164" data-attributes="member: 40359">It really depends on how far out we are looking here. As computing power increases, manageable flexibility increases as well. Of course anything that pushes the current envelope will be an utter mess both within the code and in the UI. But what pushes the envelop today is baseline functionality down the road.If we're looking far enough out, changing the UI from buttons and dropdowns to speech parsing can increase the level of manageable flexibility massively (just like the Wii simplified game controllers as Canis pointed out). Going with the current software interface with forms - sure, massive flexibility creates a nightmare of a UI. But the style of software interface won't last forever - or at the very least it won't remain as dominant forever. There are some things that it might still be the most efficient for. But down the road, there will keep being more and more UI options that can handle greater flexbility much easier.Add on schema-less data models and the like, and you have system that isn't a bunch of rules, but is a rule-building system that happens to come with D&D 15e pre-loaded.I'm not saying that is where D&D will end up. I'm just saying, never count out technology. You just have to look far enough down the road. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But, I agree with many here that the technology that will catch on is what will help facilitate human-to-human interaction, not replace it. And some traditions are better left untouched. For example, with something like Microsoft Surface, personally I'd prefer it detect what I rolled on my dice (by looking at the number that is facing down to determine the number facing up) than have some automated roller - because physically rolling dice is fun. But, that's me.</blockquote>

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