When Microsoft first unveiled their Surface Project I thought, like so many, “Nice toy but what will it actually be used for?”. Well I just came across a nice Video of a Project by Carnegie Mellon University playing D&D on Surface. I’m a huge fan of RPGs and this ranges among the coolest accessories I’ve ever seen:

While looking around on their site I also found an older Walkthrough Video of the system which explains a bit more on how it works:

I hope the Project stays alive and hopefully RPG producers jump on the train too. Only thing I’d change is the rolling of the dice, I just love having real dice to roll instead of virtual dices.

Oh and do a Das Schwarze Auge and Shadowrun version, please

Thanks CrunchGear for pointing this out.