Are youy gaming in the new Millenium?

[Liolel]

I use a computer to write the adventure, and make the maps before the game, but during the game its use is limited to me keeping notes on it. So I voted semi.

 

[Wombat]

We have one guy in our group with a PDA who we keep razzing -- he was keeping his character information there, but since he was using a standard set of software and we have a very non-standard game, the program was just not keeping up.

Nah, see no need to add in computers. I work with the stupid things 5 days a week -- game time is computer free (except to provide breaks to check out Homestar Runner, Foamy the Squirrel, Weebl n Bob, and the like...)

 

[Buttercup]

I wouldn't want my players to have laptops at the table, because I want them to focus on the story we're all telling together.

I've got lots of nifty tools to make the game easier, but I don't use my laptop during the session yet, because, well, because my husband hogs it all the time so I haven't been able to get all my stuff loaded and configured, darn him! All my stuff in on the desktop machine, which isn't exactly portable.

But one of these days, it will get done. Carrying a laptop to a game session sounds far easier to me than lugging all the books and junk I have to carry now.

 

[Desdichado]

I use a computer quite a bit for preparation -- Jamis Buck's generators, PCGen, downloaded pictures, maps, etc.

But I don't use it at all during play, and I don't really want to.

I do have a PDA with dice rollers and character sheets, but I don't really use that either except as a backup.

 

[JoeBlank]

I voted the semi-converted option, but that is arrived at by taking an average of my gaming.

The group I have been with for the longest has grown up and moved away from each other, but technology allows us to keep playing. We use OpenRPG and WebRPG for live, online game play. We like it well enough, although a rare in-person game over the holidays reminded us that face-to-face is much better.

My other group is your standard every-other-weekend, live and in person, with no technology at the table.

For both games we use email, and yahoo groups, to keep in touch and work out details between sessions. The online game has come closer to a play-by-post at times.

 

[Arnwyn]

During a game session? Absolutely not. No electronics are allowed at the table: turn off your cellphones, put away your laptops, and get that PDA away from me before I wing it out into the backyard.

I do use the computer for prep, on occasion (mostly for NPCs, since they're brutal to create in 3.x).

 

[diaglo]

the only screen i use is the DM/referee one.

edit: during a session that is.

 

[Crothian]

the only screen i use is the DM/referee one.

You don't use a computer circa 1974???

 

[diaglo]

You don't use a computer circa 1974???

it is the size of my old studebaker.

 

[Liquidsabre]

Great responses all! Thanks for the input fellow enworlders! The spread came out about to what I had expected and I disagree with some but agre with most. Limiting players from having some kind of a screen is good (though Im ok with PDAs) but I have to admit utilizing a laptop and either a simple spreadsheet or some kind of DM software only contributes to the ease of gameplay. Not to mention all the great instant click generators out there. Need a thieve's guild *click* and walla, an entire guild structure, treasure gen? No problem. Though I understand you have to get used to using such things and feel comfortable/actually like such programs.

Thanks again to all and happy gaming, no matter the method!