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Dungeonscape, the D&D 5e Tools app is dead in the water...

Started by YourSwordisMine, October 30, 2014, 05:58:51 AM

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Will

#15
October 30, 2014, 12:52:06 PM
My interest in online material:

I'd love to have an app or site where I have all my 'books' hyperlinked so I can easily refer to stuff, where I can have game materials set up (if I'm a GM, my NPCs and maybe some maps), character sheets, dice roller.

I'd love to have an app where, say, I can tap on a skill and it rolls a result for me.

I'd love to have this linked so that as GM I could 'toss' notes and maps to the other players.
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Unfortunately, this forum is filled with total a-holes, including a bunch of rape culture enabling dillholes.

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jcfiala

#16
October 30, 2014, 03:17:12 PM
Quote from: Saplatt;795141- shrug -

I never quite understood what the point was supposed to be anyway.

I remember, in high school, having a box on wheels that I would lug around with all the AD&D manuals that I owned for games.  Now, given that I probably didn't really need all of them, I thought I did, and having them available on a tablet instead of carting around 30 pounds of books would be nice.
 

Gold Roger

#17
October 30, 2014, 04:40:48 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;795150Indeed. Might be because you and i are old. :rotfl:

Eh, I don't see much of a point either and I'm quite certain I'm not old by this boards standard (< 30)

danskmacabre

#18
October 30, 2014, 05:40:44 PM
I was really looking forward to it.
Mainly for the character generator.

Still there's this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wgkammerer.testgui.basiccharactersheet.app

An android based app, it has no export character t PDF yet, but apart from that it's very good.

BarefootGaijin

#19
October 30, 2014, 07:33:46 PM
Quote from: estar;795134I had the beta of Android and Web. Perhaps the framework was beta but the content was alpha. Consisting of a incomplete character generator. And the design of the UI was questionable at best. I was left with the impression that the developer were unaware of what other were dong with RPG software.

And things looks especially bad when compared to what going on with Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds. I am wondering what the hell they were using when had people play events at Origins and Gencon with tablets in hand. That at least looked like it could have been polished for a beta.

I never got that far!! I was always hoping that the product inside, once signed in, was up to scratch.

Quote from: Saplatt;795141- shrug -

I never quite understood what the point was supposed to be anyway.

This. The market is developing well. Why do I need a system specific solution to play around a table face to face when I have pens and paper? Throwing tablets and laptops at table play is a solution looking for a problem. System quick reference? Release a PDF that is bookmarked and searchable, or use the damn book.

Online play has other system-agnostic solutions, and if you want to organise notes, system data and research (the campaign "stuff") there are other tools that do the job better (spreadsheets, Scrivener for OSX, PDF readers etc etc).

it is unfortunate that what they thought they wanted didn't work for them.
I play these games to be entertained... I don't want to see games about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.

Ladybird

#20
October 30, 2014, 08:06:02 PM
Quote from: BarefootGaijin;795240This. The market is developing well. Why do I need a system specific solution to play around a table face to face when I have pens and paper? Throwing tablets and laptops at table play is a solution looking for a problem. System quick reference? Release a PDF that is bookmarked and searchable, or use the damn book.

Online play has other system-agnostic solutions, and if you want to organise notes, system data and research (the campaign "stuff") there are other tools that do the job better (spreadsheets, Scrivener for OSX, PDF readers etc etc).

IDK, a hyperlinked rulebook could, if designed right, be much more usable than an indexed and bookmarked PDF... but as always, it would cost more money, and RPG companies don't have any of that.

One of my groups does use our tablets for local play, for sending private messages and displaying maps, but we use facebook messenger for private stuff and a chromecast stick for public stuff (Like maps, or anything else the GM wants to show us). We don't need another app, with the "fun" of cross-system compatibility (RPG companies not having the money for proper testing, as has been shown earlier), or having to sign into another account.
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estar

#21
October 30, 2014, 08:27:04 PM
Quote from: BarefootGaijin;795240IThis. The market is developing well. Why do I need a system specific solution to play around a table face to face when I have pens and paper? Throwing tablets and laptops at table play is a solution looking for a problem. System quick reference? Release a PDF that is bookmarked and searchable, or use the damn book.

Because the Crawler Companion shows it's possible to make a really good app that enhances a specific system.

BarefootGaijin

#22
October 30, 2014, 08:48:09 PM
Quote from: estar;795245Because the Crawler Companion shows it's possible to make a really good app that enhances a specific system.

Very true. Same goes for the Runequest 6 app I have. Useful for effects and speeds up combat (things you remember only later).
I play these games to be entertained... I don't want to see games about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.

Will

#23
October 30, 2014, 09:37:53 PM
I bought Pathfinder core book, then set it aside and used http://paizo.com/prd/ almost exclusively.
This forum is great in that the moderators aren\'t jack-booted fascists.

Unfortunately, this forum is filled with total a-holes, including a bunch of rape culture enabling dillholes.

So embracing the \'no X is better than bad X,\' I\'m out of here. If you need to find me I\'m sure you can.

estar

#24
October 31, 2014, 08:01:20 AM
Quote from: BarefootGaijin;795247Very true. Same goes for the Runequest 6 app I have. Useful for effects and speeds up combat (things you remember only later).

What the app?

One Horse Town

#25
October 31, 2014, 08:17:53 AM
Quote from: Will;795250I bought Pathfinder core book, then set it aside and used http://paizo.com/prd/ almost exclusively.

Yeah, i'm finding that invaluable in converting a PF adventure path over to 5e.

Will

#26
October 31, 2014, 10:48:39 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;795311Yeah, i'm finding that invaluable in converting a PF adventure path over to 5e.

I used to like d20pfsrd.com, but it's gotten way too cluttered and hard to use.
This forum is great in that the moderators aren\'t jack-booted fascists.

Unfortunately, this forum is filled with total a-holes, including a bunch of rape culture enabling dillholes.

So embracing the \'no X is better than bad X,\' I\'m out of here. If you need to find me I\'m sure you can.

BarefootGaijin

#28
November 01, 2014, 09:30:09 AM
Quote from: estar;795309What the app?

Combat Effects. Handy to have running on a tablet while gaming via skype/hangouts on another machine.

Not great on a phone. But it does the job admirably. Undermining my previous point about not using system-specific applications or programs! Though, in fairness the actual gaming is conducted by a GM (and his book) in another country so we can't just pass the hard copy round when needed.

Yes, PDF it. I know.
I play these games to be entertained... I don't want to see games about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.
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