What are your player behavior rules in F2F games?

[Jd Smith1]

I've gotten to the point I generally don't lay out my poster maps at the table anymore. I use them more for reference when reading books and if I need something for the table I scan & print it and use that. I once laid out my City of Splendors boxed set map of Waterdeep and literally took 30 seconds before someone spilled a beer on it.

Unless its a critical situation where a rules call might change whether a player's character dies I dont look anything up until afterwards. Not worth the wasted time and loss of momentum.

My players are more or less casual players and maybe 2 out of the 5 players own a PHB let alone anything else. When we make characters I usually do it with them 1 on 1. I wont let anyone borrow any of my books, I lent someone a bunch of 1E books that I never got back.

This is why I went to pdf only. Its just not worth the space and the worry anymore.

 

[billd91]

I've gotten to the point I generally don't lay out my poster maps at the table anymore. I use them more for reference when reading books and if I need something for the table I scan & print it and use that. I once laid out my City of Splendors boxed set map of Waterdeep and literally took 30 seconds before someone spilled a beer on it.

I got my Greyhawk map laminated to offer it some protection. But I’d still probably put on the wall rather than the table.

 

[R_J_K75]

This is why I went to pdf only. Its just not worth the space and the worry anymore.

I use pdf for some things but I generally like hard copies. I have a hard time reading from a computer for an extended period.

 

[R_J_K75]

I got my Greyhawk map laminated to offer it some protection. But I’d still probably put on the wall rather than the table.

I have an FR and Eberron map laminated. IDK what it would cost these days but pretty sure they were $7 each about 2003 or 2004. Well worth it.

 

[Jd Smith1]

I use pdf for some things but I generally like hard copies. I have a hard time reading from a computer for an extended period.

I have the same problem, but I use an Ipad at the table, which is much easier to read.

 

[R_J_K75]

I have the same problem, but I use an Ipad at the table, which is much easier to read.

In a perfect world I'd get pdf with any hard copy I bought..Itd make it easy to print 1 or 2 pages I need to run an encounter or print for a player. I do have a tablet but its an LG G Pad 7.0 and pretty small maybe I'll give it a try after I buy a case/stand for it. Sure with Black Friday coming around I could probably get something bigger. Though, I can see it now, after 30 seconds one of my players will spill a beer on it.

 

[Jd Smith1]

In a perfect world I'd get pdf with any hard copy I bought..Itd make it easy to print 1 or 2 pages I need to run an encounter or print for a player. I do have a tablet but its an LG G Pad 7.0 and pretty small maybe I'll give it a try after I buy a case/stand for it. Sure with Black Friday coming around I could probably get something bigger. Though, I can see it now, after 30 seconds one of my players will spill a beer on it.

We game at two long and one short table pushed together. Since we use a VTT everyone has a laptop, plus I use an Ipad and a boogie board. The center of the table is inevitably a tangle of surge protector power strips and power cables. I have been waiting for a major spill with dread, but so far we've been lucky. I always tug my small table a half-inch from the other two, just in case...

 

[R_J_K75]

We game at two long and one short table pushed together. Since we use a VTT everyone has a laptop, plus I use an Ipad and a boogie board. The center of the table is inevitably a tangle of surge protector power strips and power cables. I have been waiting for a major spill with dread, but so far we've been lucky. I always tug my small table a half-inch from the other two, just in case...

If my dream ever comes true, I buy an old movie theater ticket booth and install it in my game room and DM from there. Black out the windows so my players couldn't see me and just hear me through a microphone.

 

[MGibster]

It might judt be a case of being on the outside looking in, but your rules do not paint a good picture of your group.

I think it's fair to give Jd Smith1 the benefit of the doubt here and assume he knows his group better than any of us do. If they were naughty words, he likely wouldn't have been gaming with them for so long.

 

[MNblockhead]

When I was doing in-person games I used a horizontal display for digital battlemaps, which replaced my printing out battlemaps on a large. I have it in a case that is raised a bit off the surface of the table so spills at most mean wiping the case.

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I have a separate table that I put at a T at one end of the large conference table that my players use where I put my laptop and papers currently being used. To the side I have another smaller table for reference books and minis likely to be used in the game. I do keep drinks on the same table where I'm using my laptop, but the danger there is about the same as when I'm working. No accidents yet. It would, however, be nice to have those drink holders that attach to the side of, and hand down a bit from, your table that I've seen on some of the gaming-specific tables.