27 - Marvellous miniature
Many miniatures are marvellous. Especially these days with the kind of thing you can do with computer sculpts and 3D printers.
And I get some every now and then as things to have. But I don’t use them in RPGs, because I feel like if I started seeking exact matches for the PCs and properly artistic maps and scenery I’d have trouble stopping.
And that would get in the way of improvising location details for stunts and the like.
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| Of course I want this table, but I would also need the rom it goes in. |
So even before a Holodeck becomes available, a holotable would be great for tabletop gaming.
27a - Miniature
And the somewhat obvious alternative spin for the prompt - PCs being miniaturised or otherwise small in a giant-sized world. A time when one could use miniatures to represent the PCs while using your regular surroundings as the scenery. And there are full games for Borrowers sized PCs, tiny human-shaped supernatural beings, intelligent mice and so on.
27b - Shapeshifting
It’s one of the classic powers, but I don’t think I’ve ever played a full-on shapeshifter outside of Werewolf: The Apocalypse where the rules for their five forms a rebuilt in and anything else requires special abilities. I have played a superhero who could control different specialised artificial bodies, but he just had a few as well so I only needed a small number of stat blocks.
Also the coolest scene in Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. Doric obviously specialised heavily.
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