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Digital Overhead Tabletop Map

Started by Drohem, November 04, 2009, 10:56:27 PM

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Drohem

November 04, 2009, 10:56:27 PM
This is from a thread over on the big purple.  

Digital Tabletop Map

It is damn sweet!

RPGPundit

#1
November 05, 2009, 09:26:13 AM
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.

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November 05, 2009, 09:59:47 AM
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.

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November 06, 2009, 08:53:09 AM
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.

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November 06, 2009, 02:35:27 PM
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.

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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.
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