Originally Posted by
A Social Yeti
I have to say i find you seem to have missed some of the point of there being, theater of the mind, as an intrinsic aspect of RPing.
Like this:
show me a 3d environment, that would live up to this GM description for every player at the same table:
You enter a room where the geometry of the walls does not seem to make any sense to you. The carvings appear to move and yet do not. There is an other worldly light seeping out of the edges of the strange creatures carved into the walls that at once seem to make a normal room of describable shape and size, and yet when you try to make sense of it in your mind you wold be hard pressed to say if you were actually walking on the floor or maybe one of the walls.
And many other times in the fantasy/far flung sci-fi future, where nothign we have ever seen to date would suffice to replace the verbal description and theater of the mind it creates, that is exactly what each listener needs to see in their own mind's eye, to get what the setting's vibe.
more show them visual details, that are say, imagination aids, may help in some ways but also intrinsically limits just how fantastical you could get with it.
"the likes of which no human as ever seen beofre."
is basically impossible to show us, we have to imagine it.