{"id":4267,"date":"2012-06-21T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2012-06-21T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:10:28","slug":"the-future-of-table-top-gaming-is-in-your-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/the-future-of-table-top-gaming-is-in-your-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Table Top Gaming Is In Your Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn\u2019t love getting together with friends and having a good old fashioned round of table top gaming? Spending all night guzzling soda, racking up the experience points, vanquishing evil, and creating inside jokes that last a life time. Good times folks, good times.<\/p>\n<p>But who has time for that these days? With the economy taking down many of the local gaming shops, a flooding of the market with non-vetted offerings, and the rise of those electronic games the industry itself seems to be in a bit of trouble despite increasing attendance to gaming conventions like GenCon.\u00a0 Co-op console games and MMORPG\u2019s with their player interaction and team ups help fend off the cravings, but as many of us get older and take on more responsibilities it gets harder to get together and relive those marathon sessions.<\/p>\n<p>However, some of the creative minds that dream up epic campaigns have also been hard at work trying to find ways to make table top gaming more viable an activity to fit into a busy schedule. There are currently a couple different takes on how to make table top gaming easy and doable in our hectic lives making their way through Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<p>One is from the guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1327678769\/the-future-of-table-top-role-playing-games\">Cosmic Compass Creations<\/a> and they have started a campaign raising funds to bring their portable table top gaming boards to market and take their company international. These boards would make it easier to get a game set up and to move, allowing for a great deal of flexibility for multiple session campaigns. Their Briefcase Boards are especially cool in that they have drawers for storage and fold up with handles for transport. No more hunting through drawers and behind dressers for that run away D10 or your twenty sided.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480px\" height=\"360px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1327678769\/the-future-of-table-top-role-playing-games\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another take on how to bring table top gaming into the age of online gaming is to move the table top online. With Google+ bringing us online hangouts in real time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/joshuha\/tabletop-forge-the-virtual-tabletop-for-google-han\">Table Top Forge<\/a> has brought us a project that has tried to capture the fun of face-to \u2013face games. With online dice rolls, battle maps (including the ability to make custom maps), custom tables, and editable tokens this programs takes video conferencing to a whole new level.\u00a0 Compatible with just about any gaming system this program appears to allow users to have as close to the same experience sitting in front of their computers as they would sitting around a table together in someone\u2019s living room. This may just help to bring table top gaming back into competition with co-op video games and MMORPG\u2019s but can it really capture the camaraderie of an actual gaming session in your friend\u2019s living room?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480px\" height=\"360px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/joshuha\/tabletop-forge-the-virtual-tabletop-for-google-han\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With Cosmic Compass Creations still looking to meet their goal by Jul 1<sup>st<\/sup> and Table Top Forge now almost doubled their goal with the better part of a month to go, the gaming community may have already decided what form their future is going to take. What do you think- should table top go online?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn\u2019t love getting together with friends and having a good old fashioned round of table top gaming? Spending all night guzzling soda, racking up the experience points, vanquishing evil, and creating inside jokes that last a life time. Good times folks, good times. But who has time for that these days? With the economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-16P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6439,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/gaming-industry-news-gaming-industry-veteran-keiji-fujita-appointed-vice-president-of-adways-north-american-headquarters\/","url_meta":{"origin":4267,"position":0},"title":"Gaming Industry News: Gaming Industry Veteran Keiji Fujita Appointed Vice President of Adways North American Headquarters","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"February 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Gaming Industry Veteran Keiji Fujita Appointed Vice President of Adways North American Headquarters Recently established San Francisco office ready to help game developers get a foothold in Japan. \u00a0 Keiji Fujita \u00a0 Adways Interactive, a U.S. subsidiary of one of Japan's leading mobile game publishers and also Japan's top mobile\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/blog-and-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Keiji Fujita (Mii)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ih.constantcontact.com\/fs184\/1101398907811\/img\/930.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6557,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/gaming-charity-event-news-gamepocalypse-2013-to-benefit-the-wounded-warrior-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":4267,"position":1},"title":"Gaming Charity Event News: GamePocalypse 2013 to Benefit the Wounded Warrior Project","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"March 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"GamePocalypse 2013 to Benefit the Wounded Warrior Project MMO gaming event strives to raise $50,000 for charity\u00a0 Bottomline Guild is proud to announce\u00a0GamePocalypse 2013, a massive gaming event to support the Wounded Warrior Project. Spanning a variety of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games including\u00a0Rift,\u00a0World of Warcraft,\u00a0Guild Wars 2, and\u00a0PlanetSide 2,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/blog-and-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ih.constantcontact.com\/fs184\/1101398907811\/img\/961.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6069,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/moga-mobile-gaming-system-expands-to-include-console-style-moga-pro-controller\/","url_meta":{"origin":4267,"position":2},"title":"MOGA Mobile Gaming System Expands to Include Console-Style MOGA Pro Controller","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"January 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"MOGA Pro Unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas This Week\u00a0 PowerA\u2122\u00a0unveils a new addition to the MOGA\u2122 Mobile Gaming System at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 8-11 -- the console-style MOGA Pro Controller. MOGA Pro is a full-featured mobile game controller that transforms\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/blog-and-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"104","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/104-246x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6205,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/an-open-source-gaming-console-built-by-gamers-for-gamers-on-kickstarter\/","url_meta":{"origin":4267,"position":3},"title":"An Open Source Gaming Console Built by Gamers for Gamers on Kickstarter!","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"January 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Game Consoles Worldwide have created a prototype of an amazing throwback handheld game console with free open source games from long ago that we all know and love. Check out this Kickstarter and donate it you feel led. They have 12 more days to go to raise the $130,000 goal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/blog-and-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"GCW Handheld","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gcw-300x242.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20211,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/shots-from-the-studio-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":4267,"position":4},"title":"Shots from the Studio #31","author":"Justin White","date":"March 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone who has followed my \"Shots from the Studio\" articles knows I'm an avid Dungeons and Dragons player and DM. So today I'm going to talk about my top 5 D&D accessories the both help me at the gaming table and are fun to use. In no particular order here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/blog-and-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/31.png?fit=1200%2C675&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/31.png?fit=1200%2C675&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/31.png?fit=1200%2C675&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/31.png?fit=1200%2C675&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/31.png?fit=1200%2C675&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5050,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/game-industry-interview-with-evan-donohue\/","url_meta":{"origin":4267,"position":5},"title":"Game Industry Interview with Evan Donohue","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"July 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"July 28, 2012 By Andrea Emmes In my quest to become the best game designer\u00a0 I possibly can be and as I was finishing my degree, I happened to stumble upon a fellow game designer named Evan Donohue. It seems that Evan and I share similar interests in our career\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogs\/Reviews\/Stories","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/blog-and-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/TempImage-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}