See? This guy understands!

This is cool. I see great futures for my 10k dollar tabletop board game.

It will be pretty awesome when these things come into a human price point. I already use my laptop a ton for DM'ng. Now to work on my justification arguments.

Yes. He understands everything except the Gambler's Fallacy.

It's more that I can't throw a virtual die at a dude's head.

The solution is that everyone has their D20 iPhone app, and you put the phone down on Surface and roll the die on your phone.

Speaking of which, how awesome would Surface Mario Party be?

I ain't throwin' a three hundred damn dollar iPhone at a dude's head.

^^^

But the iPhone will hurt more than a d20...

Some guys were willing to roll a die 2000 times to see if they're naturally off balance, but I wasn't so I got a library book on Las Vegas casinos and learned how to shave my D20s.

iPhone does 10d8 damage

much like 4th edition

In fact, whenever a video shows up here from vimeo I know that it's going to be something pretty.

Depending on your age (college kids not so much) you would maybe be surprised at how many people are looking for a structured reason to hang and bullshit and drink with their buddies, especially on friday nights. We all get tired of poker sometimes.

Am I getting drunk? If there are any girls there I want to do them.

It's completely possible to get drunk and play dice without making someone draw maps first.

Another problem I have is that it looks like this system is going to be very clunky and restrictive; it will look pretty, but it will be more video game than tabletop, and it'll be difficult (if not impossible) to play anything other than the system it's designed to handle. Computer-based PnP environments should be simple, yet robust - they should provide a flexible framework around which a DM can work his vision, not a bunch of drop-down menus and pre-coded powers. That's one of the cool things about Roll20: it can easily accommodate any game system which a group might want to run. You could play D&D 5th edition, you could play D&D 2nd edition, you could play Pathfinder, or Vampire, Mechwarrior or GURPS, or even just make up your own. You can run your own houserules or make up everything on the spot, like a real PnP game. All it's concerned about are the dice rolls, the map, and any tokens you might want to put in place; everything else is left up to you.

Watching this demo, it looks these jokers are just trying to make a slightly prettier, and MUCH more expensive, multiplayer version of Temple of Elemental Evil. Lame!!!