PODCAST VIRTUAL TABLES & BOARD GAMES

Another great D&D Podcast

The blurb for this one reads

We talk with Doug Davison from Fantasy Grounds, and then a visit from R&D Gamer Designers Chris Dupuis and Ben Petrisor.
Fantasy Grounds
Fantasy Grounds is an application acting as a virtual online gaming table primarily intended for pen and paper style narrative roleplaying games. Designed to perform many of the things you can do while playing at a conventional gaming table and move it online.
Temple of Elemental Evil
In the Temple of Elemental Evil board game, you play as a heroic adventurer. With amazing abilities, spells and magic weapons, you must explore the dungeons beneath the Sword Coast where you will fight monsters, overcome hazards and find treasure. Are you ready for adventure?

The Fantasy Grounds is great--Doug has been on a lot of podcasts recently & this one contains some of his clearest explanation of the cost structure.

The Temple of Elemental Evil discussion is interesting--Chris has a fascinating career path & Ben is always awesome. I have only played one Adventure System game & I did not really love it, but it is nice to see WotC still supporting it.

I am not really interested in either of the topics this month & I miss Rodney, but I am glad that they seem to be staying on a more disciplined release schedule. 

Round Table 71 - Dragon+ and Survey Results Review

A rather short episode this week--they open with what is your favorite module & someone says the Dinosaur Lair Assualt which really was great!

The blurb has:

James Introcaso sits down with Joe Lastowski, Andrew Kane, and Vegas Lancaster to discuss the newly launched Dragon+ app and the results of the second D&D 5th Edition survey. This podcast was recorded on May 21, 2015.

I thought that they were overly optimistic on the D+ app which is really not good & a waste of resources that could have been spent making an online character builder or other fan requested tools. Maybe I am alone in this, but I want Dragon back--just pure and simple Dragon like in the old days--not this ad ware zine that reprints Tumblr posts. D+ will need to get much better before I am in. 

The survey summary shows how desperate we are for content--I mean if all we have to talk about going into Summer & Con Season is the Survey Results D&D is really loosing some of its steam.

D20 Gets Worse

So recently I lost my D20 & it appears that his downward spiral continues.

We may be past the time for intervention!