The Vault host James Sherwood joins us this week to talk the history of D&D and role playing games.
Transcript
Hi, this is Bill Sikkens host of User
friendly
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:2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer
with this week's Tech Wednesday.
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:User friendly
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:goes over a lot of new technology
and we're proud to bring that to you.
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:But we want to visit another area
and that is with gaming.
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:Now gaming is a big deal.
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:We've talked about video games and all of
that very many times on the show before,
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:but there's a lot of other
aspects of this, including role playing,
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:tabletop gaming,
and all of these different type of things
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:to where technology is advancing
and making better buy opinions of some.
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:You can still sit at the table
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:with a role playing game,
but you can have your tablet
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:and do things like manage your character
sheets and stuff through an app.
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:If that's what you choose to do.
It's still playable.
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:If you want to use pen and paper,
which a lot do.
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:There's even things like electronic dice
on Bluetooth, so when you roll your dice,
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:it can pick up
what the roll is automatically
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:and enter it into the digital system.
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:This week on User Friendly, we're going
to talk about the origins of roleplaying
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:Dungeons and Dragons and the others,
and where technology is taking it.
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:Join us Saturday here on The Answer
or at userfriendly.show.

