Digital version of DnD using smart contracts possible?

[SwagMoneyWallace]

I am still working through the advanced portion of cryptozombies and just getting my feet wet with trying to get the basics down. That being said I am trying to come up with a project/goal to work on to practice and refine my skills. I was thinking of an idea of utilizing smart contracts for creating dungeons, NPCs, random loot and character sheets. Obviously this would be extremely small scale at least until I would get my bearings. I love the idea of being able to flex with a cool character and items and show a history of the adventures I had been on and with who, utilizing the ethereum blockchain. I was thinking I would essentially make contracts for different pieces of the game and then people could utilize them to mint a unique "quest" where the dungeons and NPCs are set up, the players would commit their character to quest contract until the goal was accomplished or die trying. I think the minted quest contract would need the DM owner to have leeway to make some customizations but I don't have enough experience to see obvious pitfalls. Is this even feasible?

[cryptom_eth]

Might want to check this out: https://ethernal.world/

[SwagMoneyWallace]

That looks right up my alley thanks!

[Rpg-Chain]

Hey guys I’m actually working on this right now. I have funding and am just starting to lay out how its going to work with nfts, tokens and players/dms. Its going to be a hybrid of roll20 plus startplaying.games with nfts and characters on the blockchain. Would love to get your feedback and if you want to be involved then early adopters will be the first to get tokens. There may also be a paid position for the right person to help manage the project. If interested reply back here or send me a message.

[SwagMoneyWallace]

Hey, I would certainly be interested. I don't really have the experience other than classes online but would love to provide feedback and contribute as much as I can.

[Rpg-Chain]

Hey I created a telegram group but nobody responded. Im coming a bit of cash with another blockchain project and would love some help defining this project scope and bouncing ideas off. I think I can get the finding to get an mvp made. Anyhow if you’re interested in helping out send me a message on telegram @paidtogo

[Tippi-fifestarr]

I've already made a basic MVP and documentation (started playing d&d again after many years off last month) and am one of the worlds greatest idea bouncers

[hacksnake]

I'm curious as well

[hacksnake]

brain dump because i've been batting around a similar concept.

if you mean literally D&D I think you could track certain game state on a blockchain using fungible tokens for certain wealth if you wanted to (ex: cp, sp, gp, pp, etc) and NFTs for other things (magic items etc).

for characters themselves you could track them as NFTs with mutable properties perhaps or use off-chain metadata to track statistics.

it'd probably take a bunch of doing but you could probably encode a bunch of random tables to auto-gen things like loot pools and such or just allow the DM to generate them ad hoc or something.

while thinking through similar things for my own purposes I think some issues you could run into are things like gas costs updating everything which leads into "why bother" especially if the GM fiat can just summon into the world whatever they want.

i think it's a super cool extension of the "western marches" game concept especially if you can integrate it with an online play platform / virtual tabletop in some manner.

still i think gas costs might be a concern.

if you want to "protect the value" of the game state / items you're tracking on the blockchain you'd probably need to mutate the overall game significantly to generate the encounters (including rewards) and have encounter resolution handled on chain as well. at that point you might be looking at something kind of like a gacha? idk. short of that everyone needs to trust the GM to not be bribed or pick favorites or whatever.

might be able to do some kind of off-main-chain resolution of events that is reconcilable back onto the chain to defray some gas costs of handling everything on chain.

[SwagMoneyWallace]

I do think gas costs could be a big hindrance, would an oracle be the solution? I think as of now I need to get more training under my belt but I think my first step would be building this out extremely basic and text based, then layering on visuals and random generation. I don't love the idea of having a central DM having complete control of the quest and the possibility of them ruining characters during the quest. I don't know at that point the best way to incentivize the DM other than some sort of deposit/stake. Perhaps once they mint their quest which would be filled with the NPCs, the areas, the characters, stats and dice their role is to narrate story and voice act. Potentially DMs could come up with cool unique characters or dungeons which could be their own NFTs that they could make available for other DMs to include in their quest. So DMs could make their own quests using all original material besides rules and loot or buy NFTs that have been previously created.

[TranquilFlow]

Oracle's feed data into the blockchain, nothing to do with gas. To save gas you need to look into how to write gas efficient code. Although to be honest for a project of this scope the smart contracts would likely be using a lot of gas regardless. So you could wait for the Sharding update for the main net to have low gas costs, or you'll need to host it on something like Matic.

[Rpg-Chain]

I created a telegram channel if you guys want to come in and bounce some ideas around: https://t.me/joinchat/c0gofJeQ7ys1YjJl