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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6538234" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>I brought a laptop with Battlegrounds VT software, just for the character sheet recorder, so I could record all the PCs in the game - for keeping tabs on them as GM. After that single usage, the gal that owns the house we play it, complained that the laptop gave off lots of heat that bothered her during play, and that she'd prefer I not bring it, next time. There is one PC in the gaming room, but due to being located in a very remote rural location - even today, she only has dialup internet, so relying on that computer for online access to rules and sharing content is far less than ideal.</p><p></p><p>Despite being the most computer literate member of our group of friends, I don't and never have owned a cell phone/IPOD or anything like that, and really don't ever want one. I have a land line at home and in my office/shop, if I'm not near either phone, I can't be contacted - and I prefer that. Many of the players in our group are either unemployed, or underemployed so have the cheapest type cell phones, rather than having App capable hand-held devices. Only one person has IPOD device, but strangely the gal who owns the house with that device is less than computer literate and has accessed very little apps and/or games - pretty much using her phone as a phone only.</p><p></p><p>There was a time, that electronics were banned from our table (after the laptop incident), with all cell phones and any other devices (which there were none) kept on a table in the room adjacent to the gaming room (except for the one PC on dialup, which was usually not even "on"). One of our players runs a pizza shop and regularly checks on the status of workers in his shop, so we allowed him to keep his phone. Eventually, another brought her phone, so she keep track of her husband on that status of her baby. So the ban essentially went away, but limited to use for important phone calls only - nobody uses their phone for any gaming purpose at our table. If I had a cell phone, I might be the only one to download game accessory apps, but I don't, and as stated the rest of our table are not very active online, unlike me (I'm at a home laptop at the moment).</p><p></p><p>Long story short, we don't use electronics to assist gaming in any way, at our table. All electronics and online access I do for my games are for game-prep only, offsite from where we game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6538234, member: 50895"] I brought a laptop with Battlegrounds VT software, just for the character sheet recorder, so I could record all the PCs in the game - for keeping tabs on them as GM. After that single usage, the gal that owns the house we play it, complained that the laptop gave off lots of heat that bothered her during play, and that she'd prefer I not bring it, next time. There is one PC in the gaming room, but due to being located in a very remote rural location - even today, she only has dialup internet, so relying on that computer for online access to rules and sharing content is far less than ideal. Despite being the most computer literate member of our group of friends, I don't and never have owned a cell phone/IPOD or anything like that, and really don't ever want one. I have a land line at home and in my office/shop, if I'm not near either phone, I can't be contacted - and I prefer that. Many of the players in our group are either unemployed, or underemployed so have the cheapest type cell phones, rather than having App capable hand-held devices. Only one person has IPOD device, but strangely the gal who owns the house with that device is less than computer literate and has accessed very little apps and/or games - pretty much using her phone as a phone only. There was a time, that electronics were banned from our table (after the laptop incident), with all cell phones and any other devices (which there were none) kept on a table in the room adjacent to the gaming room (except for the one PC on dialup, which was usually not even "on"). One of our players runs a pizza shop and regularly checks on the status of workers in his shop, so we allowed him to keep his phone. Eventually, another brought her phone, so she keep track of her husband on that status of her baby. So the ban essentially went away, but limited to use for important phone calls only - nobody uses their phone for any gaming purpose at our table. If I had a cell phone, I might be the only one to download game accessory apps, but I don't, and as stated the rest of our table are not very active online, unlike me (I'm at a home laptop at the moment). Long story short, we don't use electronics to assist gaming in any way, at our table. All electronics and online access I do for my games are for game-prep only, offsite from where we game. [/QUOTE]
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