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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2064251" data-attributes="member: 14159">I keep my laptop by my DM screen when I run my game, for the following reasons:1. Soundtrack.&nbsp; I've got winamp and about 5 gigs of MP3's for background music there.2. Experience Calculator: <a href="http://www.thegamehub.com/gm/encounter.asp" target="_blank">http://www.thegamehub.com/gm/encounter.asp</a> 3. Treasure Calculator: <a href="http://www.aarg.net/~minam/treasure2.cgi" target="_blank">http://www.aarg.net/~minam/treasure2.cgi</a>4. Forgotten Realms Atlas Software.5. .pdf's.&nbsp; I only have a few I use, like the Grand History of the Realms (<a href="http://www.geonomicon.com/chronology/A%20Grand%20History%20of%20the%20Realms.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.geonomicon.com/chronology/A Grand History of the Realms.pdf</a>) but they would eat up ink lightning-quick if I tried to print them.I don't have any PC's who bring laptops to the game, they just take up space on my gaming table already.&nbsp; I had one player in one of my games who is a big gadget-head and carries his laptop to every game he's in, and keeps his character sheet on a PDA.&nbsp; However, he's known for spending all his time staring at the screen and playing a game or something.&nbsp; In one campaign he was in, he wasn't invited to return at one point (the campaign was actually a series of campaigns set in the same world, but in different parts and different eras, telling one large interlinked story, he wasn't thrown out in the middle of a game) all because he spent so much time on his computer playing games that he would forget to act in combat, or not roleplay and just fill a seat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2064251, member: 14159"] I keep my laptop by my DM screen when I run my game, for the following reasons: 1. Soundtrack. I've got winamp and about 5 gigs of MP3's for background music there. 2. Experience Calculator: [url]http://www.thegamehub.com/gm/encounter.asp[/url] 3. Treasure Calculator: [url]http://www.aarg.net/~minam/treasure2.cgi[/url] 4. Forgotten Realms Atlas Software. 5. .pdf's. I only have a few I use, like the Grand History of the Realms ([url]http://www.geonomicon.com/chronology/A%20Grand%20History%20of%20the%20Realms.pdf[/url]) but they would eat up ink lightning-quick if I tried to print them. I don't have any PC's who bring laptops to the game, they just take up space on my gaming table already. I had one player in one of my games who is a big gadget-head and carries his laptop to every game he's in, and keeps his character sheet on a PDA. However, he's known for spending all his time staring at the screen and playing a game or something. In one campaign he was in, he wasn't invited to return at one point (the campaign was actually a series of campaigns set in the same world, but in different parts and different eras, telling one large interlinked story, he wasn't thrown out in the middle of a game) all because he spent so much time on his computer playing games that he would forget to act in combat, or not roleplay and just fill a seat. [/QUOTE]

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