Some students at Carnagie Mellon University are creating a Dungeon’s & Dragons game using Microsoft Surface as a school project. You can watch the video above.

I got really excited at the beginning of the video, because they were allowing real character statuettes to interface with a map. Later in the video, they seem to drop the ball on leveraging Surface’s capabilities. For instance, why not allow players to roll actual dice since the surface table could read them.

Regardless of this implementation, I think this is a very exciting use of the surface table. If the price of the device were ever to drop, I could see the whole HeroClix community getting VERY excited over this technology.