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D&D can never been put onto a computer or screen, i will never accept this to be true

and about the D&D Movie, wtf... who takes something like D&D and puts a wayne brother in it and makes it comical... it blew dick

D&D can never been put onto a computer or screen, i will never accept this to be true and about the D&D Movie, wtf... who takes something like D&D and puts a wayne brother in it and makes it comical... it blew dick

You've obviously never heard of D&D Online...

You've obiously not heard that it's got a lot of key differences from pen and paper D&D.

You've obiously not heard that it's got a lot of key differences from pen and paper D&D.

I'm aware of that. But it has the D&D name =/ Which was my point. While NWN didnt have the D&D name however it used the same ruleset (Which is acutally being used by alot of RPGS at the moment). But D&D Online actually uses the name =o

oh i have, my point is... i dont consider them D&D, just imitations, D&D is pen and paper, that is what it is... the core

What if someone created a chat room version type thing with an interactive board, and a little pen and paper type application notepad thingy.

Explain to someone who doesn't know how D&D works, how D&D works?

You don't need a board for D & D. Lots of people just make their own maps with pen and paper, due to what the Dungeon master tells them, or they just imagine the surroundings, which could be alot more fun, but difficult.

i say 90% of D&D is the interaction of words with friends... the laughter and being able to have real conversations... video games have NPC with pre-determined conversations, and you must select what you say. Here you can just say what ever you want, how ever you want. When you go to attack, its all based on dice, your chance to hit which can be put on computer. The main thing that makes D&D pen&paper so much better than video games is its not limited to the programming... its what you make it. I mean, one campaign i was DMing my friends and they were going around buying hookers, and starting fights in bars... nothing to do with the campaign but it just made us laugh.... you cant do that in a video game unless the game already programmed it in there.

SO basically, what you need is a chat room with a whiteboard feature separate for each person, a dice machine, a notebook (can also be on the computer) and a chat area where the Dungeon Master tells you what to do and you talk to people?

If you also had voice chat, it would be workable. Still, why not just do it in person?

maybe someone will create a program for that type of stuff where the program could create it's own variables and edit it's own programming, making it a real AI module. it would be pretty easy in a respect because if you put the program in a never ending loop(except when the user quits the game) and somehow cause the program to accept input from a random number machine and from some other program that is similiar to but more advanced than the grammer checker on microsoft word, then it would be a real AI module. that way the D&D experience will be different and adaptable each time, but with a comp instead of a real person(in case no one wants to play when you want to)