What DM’s dream about.

While I’m definitely not a proponent of Microsoft, considering their blundering attempts at workable OS’s lately, I can’t really say much about Windows 7 because I’ve already decided to upgrade to a Mac once I’m forced to move beyond XP.

However, this isn’t about what I’m upgrading to in the future.  Its about a very interesting thing I had seen linked on Penny Arcade recently featuring the following:  http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/10/d-and-d-microsoft-surface/

Its definitely a work in progress, but I really do like seeing innovations like this.  Why?  Because I’m a fool for glowy effects and visual things.  The potential alone to do a slide show, or a text walk-through, or show images of maps/NPC’s/Etc is enough to send an artist into some kind of Geekgasm.

If only it wasn’t a Windows 7 thing.

Then again I don’t have the thousands of dollars this thing is probably going to cost to create.  Seriously, a fully visual table?  Yeah, that’s not going to just burn through a bank account at all.

Still a pretty need application of touch software.  Pen and paper games will never die (Honestly, I’ve seen so many posts about people who’s kids are really getting into pnp games lately that there is always hope).  However they might take on a different feeling or visual aspect in the future.  Sane people will always crave some kind of face to face time with friends which is impossible to get even over the best of networks/ventrillo setups.

MMO’s are nice, yes, they’re interesting time wasters, but you don’t get to really tell a story through them.  Stories are set about by whatever company is making and updating the game.  Some people just want to tell the story through characters, or through worlds of their own.  I think that’s something that will always remain.

Then again, I once believed my cats were psychic, so what do I know.

(shhhh… they’re listening to my thoughts RIGHT NOW).