Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

Well, I mean, Jess, you were saying last week, I think it was, about how for you the sort of link between this and Baldur's Gate in experience is of interest to you.

They mentioned that as well. Ooh, what did they say? So they basically said, you know, it's like someone who's played Baldur's Gate will come along and see this and it won't be totally unfamiliar to them. And that's kind of the idea behind it.

I guess it's bringing... So people who are used to video games will kind of... Yeah. Yeah. There's touchstones that they'll recognise.

Yeah. So there's other stuff. So there's going to be a lot of plug-in locations which you can just grab and use or mod as you wish. There are things like a graveyard, a mine, a town, that sort of thing. Yeah. So you can just grab those and then you can just change them or put stuff in them or take things out or whatever. But each comes also with like a pre-made story.

which you can ignore it completely you don't have to use it but if you just wanted to grab a graveyard put it in there and just run the pre-made story you've just got a little sort of you know mini adventure there ready to go and you could presumably build an entire campaign just out of all of these different locations and their pre-made stories

yeah and i imagine as they go by you combine your adventures which will have all this stuff in and yeah yeah and the idea is you also you could you're supposed to share content with others okay so if you create stuff you should be able to sort of share it whether that's on a marketplace or whether that's just literally hey i i made this and you just send it to them and they use it i don't know

I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard to tell, really. I mean, there's a whole level builder. And they've described it as the best miniature set that you could have. And you just snap together different kit pieces. And it kind of looked to me like, basically, what you have there is a digital version of Dwarven Forge.

is what it kind of looked like to me. And you're snapping all these things together digitally to make all these different dungeons or whatever. But also it's not just dungeons like Dwarven Forges, it's like graveyards and towns and all sorts of things.

So that looks kind of cool. Like quite Neverwinter Nights-y. You know how that was tiles?

You put different tiles together.

So, on your Mac...

Oh, okay. I was going to say, it's not going to be on Mac at first.

Yes. Yeah, it's going to be starting on PC. They're going to have other platforms later, including mobile and console. So they basically want it on every platform they possibly can, but it's starting on PC, apparently.

Yeah, they showed some clips of some secret doors and traps going off and a lift that literally went up and down between levels and a camera which kind of swooped in around them. I don't know how much... A lot of this was quite fancy camera work. And I don't know how that will actually...

They also showed a little quick thing of Drizzt fighting Optimus Prime.

That's Drizzt O'Urden, the Dark Elf, from the Forgotten Realms, fighting Optimus Prime, the Transformer, from not the Forgotten Realms, from Cybertron. Yeah.

Yeah, the shot was some over-Optimus Prime's shoulder, so you could sort of see the back of Optimus Prime's head and shoulder, and drizzled down on the ground, looking quite small. Yeah, yeah, it's like a bit of a discrepancy.

Other little bits and pieces. If you have artwork of your own, you can just put 2D tokens on there. Flat 2D tokens from any artwork. And also you can use 2D maps. If you've got a 2D map from an older adventure or something, you can just write that one there. So basically you'll see that 2D map in a sort of isometric point of view, but it will still be flat.

And your tokens will be flat on that map. So it will look like a map with tokens on it on a table sort of thing. So you can do that rather than having to build the old 3D models and all that stuff. But I think the goal is to have you collecting virtual minis and things like that is how it's going to go.

Because one of the things, they're going to give you a free digital gold dragon mini to kickstart your Project Sigil collection if you pre-order the 2024 physical and digital core rulebook bundle.