Comments on The Dice of Life: MapTool for Face-to-Face Role-Playing Games

Right on. Keep those posts coming. For our Descen...

2009-09-07T18:19:27.433-04:00

Right on. Keep those posts coming.

For our Descent Road to Legend campaign, we still use the cardboard tiles, cards and plastic minis for the dungeon and encounter bits, but we use MapTool for the world map and track the campaign progress. Yes, we could use Maptool for the encounter and dungeon crawls as it would save some time with setup, clean up etc. but we still like the gaming bling.

If I recall correctly, the set up was a projector ...

2009-09-07T13:02:17.001-04:00

If I recall correctly, the set up was a projector under the table and used a Wii Remote for input.

Here's the write-up of how he did it.

How can the guy in the video get a cheap table to ...

2009-09-07T12:45:04.977-04:00

How can the guy in the video get a cheap table to behave like a touchtop Microsoft surface screen? Its pretty cool.

I can see how he somehow used a projector on the ceiling, but how can he feedback into the laptop when he moves the pieces?