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A different but similar in topic problem is running and playing tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons. The solution is a general-purpose distrib
by Kinrany 5y ago
A different but similar in topic problem is running and playing tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons.
The solution is a general-purpose distributed computing platform designed for end-user development.
The closest three things that exist are Google Sheets, replit.com and dndbeyond.com. Replit is too low level, dndbeyond is not powerful enough, sheets are stuck with grid and too clunky for everything else.
Here's a few things the user should be able to do:
1. Design a tabletop roleplaying game system from scratch and automate all the math
2. Write content designed to be used with a system
3. Use systems and content designed by other people, without copy-pasting
4. Modify the system and the content designed by other people for your own purposes
5. Share access to the content in a granular way
Tabletop roleplaying games are unique: they thrive on content that must be created and shared quickly, but includes simple but fully general programming capabilities. Seems like a great place to start making programming as commonplace as literacy.