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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverwulfe" data-source="post: 6079357" data-attributes="member: 6705517">Prepping ahead of time makes a huge difference in what you can take.  One of the reasons I really like the Pathfinder universe so much.  Everything is in PDF easily (and cheaply), there are really solid tools to produce characters (go go Hero Labs!) and if someone is using BattleMaps, I'm all in and can bring it up on my phone.  I haven't pushed for a solid 12 hours, but maybe that's cause I realize my limitations these days and will take a break in the middle somewhere to go to the room, plug in the iPad and go out to eat (cause let's face it... if I'm travelling these days, at least 1/3 of my budget is for food).  If I were ever to be some rockstar and people brought me stuff, then I'd have a second iPad ready and waiting to go... lolI too will stick to my dice.  There's nothing like being streaky (which I am, going both directions) and after a really bad one people start watching the dice to see if it's going to be awesome or woeful!  You just can't that same satisfaction from a dice app... people in my regular group really hate for me to be the only healer around... bwaaahaaaa... they might be perfectly healed, or it might be a long long day...I'm not opposed to using other tablets, but so far the iPad has the best tools for use at the table and I do it every week.  Yep, I still have my scratch pad and yes I will usually have a printed out version of my character sheet so I can markup changes easily, but more often than not I use my notes in my sketch pad (which doubles as a great pencil holder) for updating my electronic character sheets.  Before I started running into space problems, I was easily carrying over 500 rulebooks with me and could pull up nearly any setup I needed.  Yes, bouncing back and forth is a pain, so you should bookmark and memorize very well (or even create subfolders in GoodReader and dump them all in one spot) but it works and works really well.I do take more kit as a GM, but I'm not running Con games, so it's no biggie.  As a character, I have not had a problem looking up any kind of spell or reference as my turn approaches and have the ability to have any needed information without 20-50 lbs of paper.  Often I'll take my books, but that's mostly so other people can use them (which can be a real bonus when new people are playing).</blockquote>

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