You're looking at a Dungeons & Dragons dungeon map, created by Photoshop and projected onto a flat surface by a laptop. If you check out the detailed description over at Pen, Paper & Pixel, you'll discover that the program can be used to reveal only what the players can see (very useful when they're in the dark holding torches) and can even reveal traps... after they've been sprung on your hapless adventurers. It's damn impressive, if you ask me. Thanks to Yahaboobay for the tip. (Via Engadget)
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Purple Monkey Dishwasher said:
Nerdery of the highest order.
DE12 said:
I am kinda amused that I actually know the map they used, it is from a premade campaign, that I was running my D&D crew through a couple weeks ago.
Captain Flunky said:
If this technology was available when I was 14 and at the apex of my D&D nerdery, I would have murdered both my parents to acquire it I think.
Tabitha said:
I just had an orgasm. Wednesday nights is about to get more interesting.
Schlemmy said:
I do a similar thing with my laptop. I hook it up to the TV and dual screen. But I keep the maps hidden and then I update them in photoshop on my screen and then save them and upload them in a web browser.
I use tabs for people with different views, so I can keep multiple maps open at the same time and flip them for each character. When a change is made, I just save the new images, and refresh the tab.
It gives a lot more realism to the dungeon delving.
Mount_Prion said:
Somebody please remind me why, when we reach this point, we're not just playing a videogame RPG instead?
ZeroCorpse said:
Pfah! Minis suck.
If you players want a map, then DRAW ONE as I, the DM, describe it to you.
I'm not giving you fucking visual aids in a game that is meant to require you to use your imagination. You D&D players today are such wimps. You want me to use Photoshop to paint you a picture of the kobold that's raping your corpse, too?
Tim Goodbody said:
Just wondered if you'd seen this about Natal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8077369.stm
