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Unread postby icycalm » 09 Jun 2021 02:51

https://dscryb.com/

https://twitter.com/dscrybboxedtext

This appears to be a site/service that makes description boxes for DMs?

https://dscryb.com/about/

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dScryb provides Boxed Text—descriptive text of places, monsters, spells, items, characters, and other observations—meant to be read aloud by GMs to players. It is set in the world of epic fantasy, like many of your favorite RPGs. Great boxed text shows its subject by describing the sensory experience. And it often sets the narrative tone, introduces the scene, and spotlights what's important.

Let dScryb’s team of talented writers and editors pore over every word of boxed text, freeing your creative energy and time for all the other aspects of planning and running the perfect adventure.


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And they are now integrated with Foundry VTT: https://twitter.com/dscrybboxedtext/sta ... 9739514881

Not sure how helpful they would be for professional adventures, since most of the material needed for those is provided. That said, there are always gaps that could be filled to create a denser, richer world, so for the DM willing to make the effort, this material would definitely ratchet up the multimedia immersion. I’ll be keeping an eye on their output and will be integrating at least some of it into Battlegrounds, no matter what VTT we are using.

The range of apps and services launched for VTT-powered role-playing is incredible. Only a blind man would fail to see it is the start of a brand-new field for videogame-powered art.
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Unread postby icycalm » 09 Jun 2021 03:04

Stuff isn’t free though: https://dscryb.com/store/

$80 per year, which would be added to the World Anvil and Syrinscape subscriptions, plus all the Fantasy Grounds DLC books that will eventually run to tens of thousands of dollars (we’re already up to several hundred), and we haven’t even started on all the upcoming TaleSpire DLC.

Worth it of course but I am just saying. Role-playing was never cheap, and the digital version is even dearer for those like me who want to go all out.
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