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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 4754455" data-attributes="member: 50895">Too many reasons against going totally digital1. Apple and the I-phone will go out of business in the next 5 to 10 years, so they won't be doing it.2. New tech might be able to achieve this and a large group will check it out when it is available, but I don't think it will replace tabletop anytime soon.3. Being the difference between MMORPGs and Tabletop, you either like one and not the other. MMORPG people may jump on this in a heartbeat, the rest will go "nah, another expensive toy, no thank you." Me included.4. A friend of mine's son just got out of prison - the whole time he was in 2 years, him and his cellmate played D&D without books, without dice, without figs - in kind of general house rules system (based on memory), they used pennies in a shoe box for dice (shook the box and counted heads vs. tails). The point is there will always be people who don't have accesss to the latest tech, or be able to get them. Tabletop is much easier to acquire, less expensive to no expense to participate. There will always be a core of tabletop players.5. As far as virtual reality goes, except in the case of shoot-em-up games, games that require sword play - that's exercise, in words work. I don't know how many gamers you know, but almost none of them I know are truly athletic. VR will be something everybody tries. But most geeks I know are couch potatoes, unlikely to sweat in swinging an imaginary sword just to play a game. Holodecks as an idea if such existed, wouldn't dominate the gaming industry, so it certainly wouldn't replace it.6. I've even tried to get my players to use a projection screen with a laptop and MapTool. They don't even want a PC in the game room. They prefer dice and books to digital content any day.7. Finally everybody has their favorite D20 dice in their dice bag. I could never find anyone at all interested in digital dice. If you can't hold dice in your hands and chance on your throw, why play the game at all. That's the consensus from most D&Der's I've ever met.You're dreamin' and not very good dream at that.GP</blockquote>

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