If you would like to have Astarion in your digital D&D group, you can use his miniature in Project Sigil.
Tabletop role-playing games are often referred to as pen and paper, but this is now very far from reality. Even though paper, pens and perhaps dice are sufficient to play in many cases, hardly any hero group today relies on such archaic methods.
Instead, the Playing via online services increasingly popular. Fueled by the Corona pandemic, many groups have acquired a taste for it and are using the digital offerings even if not all of their friends live in the same city.
Most of the time, third-party offers are used here, but Wizards of the Coast is currently working on its own VTT for Dungeons & Dragons (Virtual Tabletop). At Gen Con 2024, the project was renamed Project Sigil and some new information was revealed.
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D&D Virtual Tabletop shows its digital battle cards for the role-playing game
Large cooperations
The latest version of Project Sigil was presented to the audience in Indianapolis during a panel. It showed how game masters can use it to build their 3D maps quickly and with great detail.
And those who prefer to tinker with characters rather than cards should be able to do so to their heart’s content. We’re talking about a character editor with tons of customization options. In addition, there will be Cooperation with well-known D&D brands that can then also appear in your digital worlds.
Project Sigil provides miniatures for famous D&D characters. Baldur’s Gate 3 seems to be the flagship here.
First and foremost, Baldur’s Gate 3, whose characters are available as virtual miniatures. You can then simply add Karlach, Astarion, Lae’zel and Co. to your game. Play them, fight them or seduce them.
There is currently no public version of Project Sigil, but that will soon change. A closed beta will start in the fall, for which you can register now.
What exactly is that?
VTTs are in a way the Intersection of tabletop role-playing games and video games. These programs are designed to facilitate online play by digitally representing dice rolls, but many go a step further. For example, some VTTs aim to make 2D cards and tokens more interactive by implementing dynamic fog of war.
The whole thing becomes even more complex if battle or dungeon maps are to be displayed in 3D. Not many programs have dared to do this so far. Speech sproutwhich is currently in Early Access on Steam and with which you can like in a real level editor You can build cards.
The biggest disadvantage of such graphically impressive map tools is of course the amount of work involved in building them. Let’s see how well that works in Project Sigil.
But where Talespire wants to map everything and thus provides fairly generic assets, you can use Project Sigil to perfectly Build maps tailored to D&DAll map assets and characters match exactly the D&D look you know from the books.
Of course, there is also a lot of financial power behind it. That’s why it looks amazingly good and even allows for magical effects. Project Sigil brings your very own campaigns to life in a new way.
