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<blockquote data-quote=".5 Elf" data-source="post: 5201212" data-attributes="member: 90290">Sorry I was out of town a bit, I tried to respond from my smartphone but the forum kept eating the post before I could hit send.&nbsp;I have a few reasons why I don't allow CB at my table.&nbsp;I don't want laptops at my game table. Not saying they are a bad thing, or good thing but I feel they break immersion just a bit more than I like. Things like DDI and CB encourage laptop play to me. Call me a Luddite if you will, but I yearn for a simpler time. The good old days when pencils, paper, books, and dice still held sway.&nbsp;Lack of support for Houserules. I houserule to a very very large extent and if you used CB you have a bunch of changes you have to make to the finished product anyhow.&nbsp;I use non standard char sheets. True we could just transcribe them once done using CB but why bother?&nbsp;I limit source / splat books and I don't want to tempt the players with options I don't allow at my table. Sort of the way people referred to how 3 and 3.5's glut of &quot;official&quot; source material encouraged players to wheedle the DM to allow game breaking stuff at their table. &nbsp;System Mastery. This may sound a bit crazy but I find that CB is a bit like calculators and cash registers in that people come to rely on the machine and whatever input they get from it regardless of whether or not it makes sense. I want my players to understand the game at least insofar as their character goes. I am amazed how stupid people become when they let machines do their thinking for them.&nbsp;Especially odd is the fact that I am a slave to spell-check utilities myself. I think this is from a mild form of dyslexia in my case (runs in my family) but I was never tested. Still I try to proofread after spell checking, not just accept the machine got it all right for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE=".5 Elf, post: 5201212, member: 90290"] Sorry I was out of town a bit, I tried to respond from my smartphone but the forum kept eating the post before I could hit send. I have a few reasons why I don't allow CB at my table. I don't want laptops at my game table. Not saying they are a bad thing, or good thing but I feel they break immersion just a bit more than I like. Things like DDI and CB encourage laptop play to me. Call me a Luddite if you will, but I yearn for a simpler time. The good old days when pencils, paper, books, and dice still held sway. Lack of support for Houserules. I houserule to a very very large extent and if you used CB you have a bunch of changes you have to make to the finished product anyhow. I use non standard char sheets. True we could just transcribe them once done using CB but why bother? I limit source / splat books and I don't want to tempt the players with options I don't allow at my table. Sort of the way people referred to how 3 and 3.5's glut of "official" source material encouraged players to wheedle the DM to allow game breaking stuff at their table. System Mastery. This may sound a bit crazy but I find that CB is a bit like calculators and cash registers in that people come to rely on the machine and whatever input they get from it regardless of whether or not it makes sense. I want my players to understand the game at least insofar as their character goes. I am amazed how stupid people become when they let machines do their thinking for them. Especially odd is the fact that I am a slave to spell-check utilities myself. I think this is from a mild form of dyslexia in my case (runs in my family) but I was never tested. Still I try to proofread after spell checking, not just accept the machine got it all right for me. [/QUOTE]

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