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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6170603" data-attributes="member: 17106">Yes. Even using a computer as a reference tool changes the nature of the game. I read rpg material and write on my computer all the time, but using it during play is different. And yes, using an electronic device in place of physical cards is different. Videoconferencing is different than talking to people. Is there really any need to justify such a self-apparent statement? Humans evolved to think, behave, and communicate without computers. They have their uses, but in a tabletop rpg context in which the game takes place in people's minds, they're a distraction. Books are also distracting and somewhat undesirable during play; computers are simply more so.Even if I lived in some distant future area of virtually unlimited technology, I would still do my improvisational storytelling and play my card games technology-lite. After all, even these guys still use cards:[video=youtube;mg8_cKxJZJY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8_cKxJZJY[/video]I have a life. Posting on message boards is easy, but I may or may not be able to play an rpg during a given period. Paying an ongoing fee makes no sense.On a deeper level, I expect to pay for what I get. If there is a one-time cost to produce material, then I'll pay into that as a consumer. But then I'm done, and I expect to have access to that purchase forever. I don't expect to pay someone on an ongoing basis for something that they are no longer doing. If new material is produced, I expect to thoroughly evaluate it before paying for it, rather than paying on an ongoing basis. And I expect that the amount of useful material and revisions thereof will decrease over the life of a system, so I expect to buy into it once and then spend less and less over time.</blockquote>

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