The Future of Tabletop/D&D RPGs is NOW!

[Samtemdo8]

This is Talespire, a very ambitious looking RPG builder in the vein of Dungeons & Dragons with steller looking graphics and production values.
And I mean it literally plays like an actual physical tabletop RPG with model figurines/statues and real literal dices being rolled.

This will be out for Early Access this April 14th.

I've been following this game's development for half a decade now. And I hope this will succeed in being the way to play Tabletop/Pen and Paper RPGs in the digital world.

 

[meiam]

Tabletop simulator does a really good job, tons of mod for all version of DnD and other game rules.

 

[Kae]

I mean these kinds of things are cool and I really like them, but ultimately if you're doing tabletop RPGs online using something more basic and free tends to be the better option, by which I mean just a Discord Server a basic browser map program like this or Roll20 tends to be a better option, for a few reasons.

1. If it's paid you need to get everyone to buy it or buy it for everyone neither of which is necessarily something people will be willing to do.
2. Troubleshooting and making sure the program is working for all players, for example I used to run a game in Tabletop Sim, I had to change platforms because well it just kept crashing on two of my friend's PCs and it was a huge pain in the ass, not to mention another friend wanted to play but didn't want to buy it, so I switched to Fantasy Grounds which worked great because only I had to pay for it and everyone else could play for free, but after a few months I have no idea why but it started getting a lot of connection issues, people dropping, program crashing, me getting disconnected and everyone being booted and it started to become more of a hassle than it was worth because we were wasting so much time troubleshooting.
3. Learning curve, like when you use those programs in addition to the rules of the game you have to learn macros and how to make everything work correctly on it and make sure the data is being tracked correctly and some players just have trouble with it, seriously kind off weird to say but just using something basic AF and doing the calculations as if you were playing on an actual tabletop tends to be faster.

For these reasons as much as I like those programs seriously ,I have the Ultimate License for Fantasy Grounds and like most of the D&D 5E & COC 7E content for it which makes me really sad because I don't use it because my friends don't want to play on that program anymore, I have just found that they're simply not worth it and unless you have players that are really committed to the program in addition to the game they tend to cause more problems than they solve and end up being a complete waste of money, so I personally wouldn't recommend them

 

[CriticalGaming]

This would be cool if you had one of those tables with a monitor in it. So you can use this and display it for all the players at the table. But strictly online play i dont see it working out, online games are hard enough when they are easily done in discord. To have everyone need this game would rely basically on you already having a dedicaded group.

 

[Gordon_4]

This would be cool if you had one of those tables with a monitor in it. So you can use this and display it for all the players at the table. But strictly online play i dont see it working out, online games are hard enough when they are easily done in discord. To have everyone need this game would rely basically on you already having a dedicaded group.

I remember seeing this video when Microsoft was getting into the touch screen device game and thinking “Yes, I fucking want one!”