With a crackle and hiss the tiny goblin materialized in the center of the cavernous chamber. Disoriented, he glanced quickly from side to side, taking in the astonished looks of the small party of battle weary adventurers who had summoned him, before, finally and fatefully, looking up into the rapidly descending jaws of an enormous dragon. In a tiny, squeaky, quivering voice he uttered the only words of his brief and ill-fated existence... "oh shit".
But this online play also seems to emphasize dungeon crawl over character development, in which case, what's the point? I could play WoW for that and get a lot better graphics in the bargain.
I actually played a quick game at a recent LAN party with 5 guys using RPTools which is very similiar to this, because we didn't have any books or tables or the various doodads to play a traditional game, and it was still a lot of fun. We were mostly in the same room (one was next to the entryway to the kitchen) so i was able to talk to the players (to avoid noise mix we require headphones for gameplay), and with microphones and VoIP you can accomplish much the same thing. It was a short play time, but we got some character development in there that certainly was above what you get out of say...Neverwinter Nights or WoW. Plus they're not saying that you HAVE to play 4th edition that way, just that it is a new way they are going to support so that players can connect from all over and open up the gaming world to people who want to play, but don't have a local group they can play with.
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But but but.... I just bought all these damn 3.5 books!
After watching the videos I'm not sure whether to be excited or upset about this development.
I don't want to play D&D online, I want to play with paper and pencils.
In person is better, yes, but as someone who's had an online play-by-post game crash and burn, this online play looks pretty cool.
But this online play also seems to emphasize dungeon crawl over character development, in which case, what's the point? I could play WoW for that and get a lot better graphics in the bargain.
I assume that chat features would be in place. *shrug*
I actually played a quick game at a recent LAN party with 5 guys using RPTools which is very similiar to this, because we didn't have any books or tables or the various doodads to play a traditional game, and it was still a lot of fun. We were mostly in the same room (one was next to the entryway to the kitchen) so i was able to talk to the players (to avoid noise mix we require headphones for gameplay), and with microphones and VoIP you can accomplish much the same thing. It was a short play time, but we got some character development in there that certainly was above what you get out of say...Neverwinter Nights or WoW. Plus they're not saying that you HAVE to play 4th edition that way, just that it is a new way they are going to support so that players can connect from all over and open up the gaming world to people who want to play, but don't have a local group they can play with.
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