This is from a thread over on the big purple.
Digital Tabletop Map (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=481920)
It is damn sweet!
So for those of us who don't want to bother, can you actually just give us the gist of what a "digital overhead tabletop map" means?
I mean, I know what those four words mean individually, but together they aren't making any sense to me.
RPGPundit
You take a LCD Projector that is hooked up to a computer and point it down at your table. Then you use any number of software to display an image, usually a battlemap, on the table. If it is used a battlemap you can use miniatures and with the right software have fog of war. Fog of war usually implemented in a program where there is a two layers. The top layer you erase revealing the desired area of the battlemap.
(http://www.rpgenome.com/tabletop/full_view_small.jpg)
(http://www.rpgenome.com/tabletop/map3.jpg)
Pretty cool, but only in the "using a ridiculous amount of expensive technology for no practical reason in a way that is no improvement over old terrain-blocks" kind of way.
RPGPundit
Quote from: RPGPundit;342454Pretty cool, but only in the "using a ridiculous amount of expensive technology for no practical reason in a way that is no improvement over old terrain-blocks" kind of way.
RPGPundit
Indeed.
I mean, if someone wants to give me that whole thing, I am happy to try it out and use it. But, I'll stick with a battle mat when necessary to show combat.