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doesn't anyone play low-tech anymore?
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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5532572" data-attributes="member: 1165"><p>Despite spending a huge amount of time online, I'm not particularly fond of computers at the gaming table.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday, I ran a game at a too-small gaming table (the one we always use) with three laptops running on it simultaneously. Needless to say, this took up a lot of space, a problem since we use a battlemat.</p><p></p><p>One player's laptop had died and we spent a lot of time resurrecting his character sheet. Even then, the CB wasn't working on his new laptop (we had to transfer it by USB stick to another player's laptop and of course, no printer) and he had to rely on small blurry images of his character sheet on his laptop, so small he could hardly read the attack bonuses. (They were all +6, not sure where the confusion was coming from.)</p><p></p><p>Another player had a working laptop and working CB but for some reason needed a lot of hand-holding with his character's attack bonuses too and seemingly needed to recalculate them every round. He'd say "we agreed it was +7, right?" (No, he wasn't cheating.)</p><p></p><p>And would you believe, said players were of a telepath and a bard? It occurs to me I've literally never seen the telepath's character sheet, and had requested it be emailed to me. (Not in CB format, I don't even have that.) However, his laptop died as I made the request.</p><p></p><p>But there are some some things I like to keep online. We have a gaming wiki that we use to expand settings and (in cases where people's computers haven't died) store character sheets, so the DM can look at them whenever they need to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 5532572, member: 1165"] Despite spending a huge amount of time online, I'm not particularly fond of computers at the gaming table. Yesterday, I ran a game at a too-small gaming table (the one we always use) with three laptops running on it simultaneously. Needless to say, this took up a lot of space, a problem since we use a battlemat. One player's laptop had died and we spent a lot of time resurrecting his character sheet. Even then, the CB wasn't working on his new laptop (we had to transfer it by USB stick to another player's laptop and of course, no printer) and he had to rely on small blurry images of his character sheet on his laptop, so small he could hardly read the attack bonuses. (They were all +6, not sure where the confusion was coming from.) Another player had a working laptop and working CB but for some reason needed a lot of hand-holding with his character's attack bonuses too and seemingly needed to recalculate them every round. He'd say "we agreed it was +7, right?" (No, he wasn't cheating.) And would you believe, said players were of a telepath and a bard? It occurs to me I've literally never seen the telepath's character sheet, and had requested it be emailed to me. (Not in CB format, I don't even have that.) However, his laptop died as I made the request. But there are some some things I like to keep online. We have a gaming wiki that we use to expand settings and (in cases where people's computers haven't died) store character sheets, so the DM can look at them whenever they need to. [/QUOTE]
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