AdmundfortGeographer
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When is D&D Insider actually launching?
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firesnakearies
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I looked through the thread to see if anyone had played the Duke Nukem Forever card yet, and a couple of people have. So there goes my first answer.
I'll go with this, then:
Right after the release of Darkfall and Starcraft: Ghost.
questing gm
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The longer it takes for them to launch, the more free issues of Dragon and Dungeon I can enjoy 
1. This should not be a grounds to barrage WotC with a great deal of speculation and pessimism, unless you bought 4th edition for the sole purpose of D&D Insider, which I believe ought to be a fairly ludicrous decision on your part; I have not as yet bought any 4th edition source books, as I am testing the waters and reading up on all that stuff before I leap headfirst into it.
The fact that WotC is even attempting this is astoundingly impressive. I think it is exciting that around the corner (Probably sometime near christmas, nes pas?) there could be a professionally crafted virtual tabletop straight from the lion's den of RP gaming. As a DM who has left his friends and gaming group behind with a fairly large move, I can say that what WotC has given me by even announcing such a feature is hope.
I have a new gaming group now. We have fun, but most of them are new players, and I pine for the days of old when my experienced friends and I would stay up into the cold, dark hours of the morning, with half-lidded, sleepy eyes, rolling our d20's and knowing what was going on. The dungeon-making application that more or less goes along with the D&D Tabletop would make adventure-crafting that much easier, I'm sure.
So I do not think it is necessarily a good, understandable approach to be so pessimistic as to say "It'll never happen, they'll sweep it under the rug, blah blah blah..." because you never know.
2. I hope the Tabletop is more or less just dice, miniatures and tiles, with everything else to be decided upon later, as my group and I have always been addicted to the d20, 3.5 simplicity, and we may want to run a 2E campaign as well. It would be nice to have the possibility, and to remove the DM fudging and intuition would deprive the DM of a great deal of improvisation, such that the DM really wouldn't have as wonderful a game-running arsenal at his disposal as possible.
3. I think they will find that their prices may not be as high as they are planning, simply because at an outrageous, MMO price, no one will want the D&D Insider. They're already spending that money on WoW, after all.
The fact that WotC is even attempting this is astoundingly impressive. I think it is exciting that around the corner (Probably sometime near christmas, nes pas?) there could be a professionally crafted virtual tabletop straight from the lion's den of RP gaming. As a DM who has left his friends and gaming group behind with a fairly large move, I can say that what WotC has given me by even announcing such a feature is hope.
I have a new gaming group now. We have fun, but most of them are new players, and I pine for the days of old when my experienced friends and I would stay up into the cold, dark hours of the morning, with half-lidded, sleepy eyes, rolling our d20's and knowing what was going on. The dungeon-making application that more or less goes along with the D&D Tabletop would make adventure-crafting that much easier, I'm sure.
So I do not think it is necessarily a good, understandable approach to be so pessimistic as to say "It'll never happen, they'll sweep it under the rug, blah blah blah..." because you never know.
2. I hope the Tabletop is more or less just dice, miniatures and tiles, with everything else to be decided upon later, as my group and I have always been addicted to the d20, 3.5 simplicity, and we may want to run a 2E campaign as well. It would be nice to have the possibility, and to remove the DM fudging and intuition would deprive the DM of a great deal of improvisation, such that the DM really wouldn't have as wonderful a game-running arsenal at his disposal as possible.
3. I think they will find that their prices may not be as high as they are planning, simply because at an outrageous, MMO price, no one will want the D&D Insider. They're already spending that money on WoW, after all.
1. When does software EVER come out on time?
2. I think WOTC is going for the "stealth" updates as seen by the stealth revision. Unless you actually constantly check on DDI, you're not going to know what's been released since WOTC isn't going to announce it.
3. As long as DDI isn't working, DRAGON and DUNGEON are free. Nice tradeoff.
2. I think WOTC is going for the "stealth" updates as seen by the stealth revision. Unless you actually constantly check on DDI, you're not going to know what's been released since WOTC isn't going to announce it.
3. As long as DDI isn't working, DRAGON and DUNGEON are free. Nice tradeoff.
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