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Fox Lee
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Old January 23rd, 2013, 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by rob View Post
The approach we've prototyped is for the GM's computer to behave as a simple web server during play. Player devices can then retrieve material directly from the GM's computer over a local internet connection. This provides live updates to players during the game without the need to access the Realm Works cloud server, which might be unavailable due to venue limitations (e.g. horribly slow speeds at a hotel during a Con or expensive 3G/4G access being cost-prohibitive).
Hullo, I never knew that was in the works! Since not all players have access to the network where my group games, this is an incredibly exciting feature to me Is this amongst the goals that need the Kickstarter, then, or is it part of the core plan?

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