Hypercubed the Dungeon...

[geneweigel]

I had to move my playing area AKA "the dungeon" into the back room this weekend:



It looks okay but its a royal mess.

Anyway I found some unearthed arcana there was a high school notebook with some fantasy stuff but some interesting mistakes.

This one is particularly interesting to the recent talk about the purple dragon becoming the purple worm. Its a drawing of a "worm" dragon as a combination of an Arrakis sandworm and a dragon:



and another interesting one was a mistaken attempt at drawing Iuz as a "mannikin" mannikin:



Oops!!! These date to early 1984 based on the surrounding class notes and teacher doodles. It wasn't inspired by the movie version of DUNE but as that came out later that year but rather by the anticipation of the movie.

[geneweigel]

Its still a royal mess. I was thinking about this Roll 20 thing and how to possibly set that up for a sit in to an "at the table" game.

Now I have a clip-on or free standing webcam and a ten year old lap top with Windows XP down there. I have lots of other tech up here but those are in use all the time.

Would two webcams be necessary or would every player have to have a laptop?

[geneweigel]

Heh the wi-fi signal is weak back here it just took about 30 seconds to get to this REPLY window.

[GRWelsh]

Oct 1, 2013 8:00:58 GMT -5 geneweigel said:

Would two webcams be necessary or would every player have to have a laptop?

It depends what you have in mind. If you are thinking of a bunch of players around a table, with one player joining remotely using something like Roll 20... then I'm not sure how that would work. In that "Full Frontal Nerdity" comic isn't one of the players a webcam? "Webcam the fighter"? Which implies that maybe some gaming groups do have players who play-by-webcam.

Roll 20 seems more suited to everyone being logged in and using it simultaneously. But who knows, maybe it can be used the above way, as well.

I've been in some business meetings when the technology made me think of how it could be used for remote gaming, i.e. conference call, live meeting/Level 3, big screen monitors, etc.

[geneweigel]

I hooked up a secondary monitor and that worked but I don't think this laptop has the "oomph".