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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OchreJelly" data-source="post: 5144693" data-attributes="member: 62056">I also "get" it, and got it in fact!  To be perfectly honest I was skeptical but approached it with an open mind.  I also am generally not an early adopter when it comes to tech.  While I was out shopping my only intention was to try a demo model because I felt it was really something that had to be experienced.So I tried it and was sold.  Now mind you, for me there's a couple things at work:  1) I had gift cards and tax return money burning a hole in my pocket.  2) For years I've been in the market for a secondary device.  I don't own a laptop, but was considering getting a netbook for lite computing, media consumption, surfing etc.  I was considering this for a long time, but kept waiting for netbooks to get "a little better".  I also played with the idea of getting a portable dvd player to have in my office to watch tv while I worked.  Again, I put that off for not having a strong enough need to take the plunge.  So when the ipad arrived that familiar itch for a secondary device gnawed at me.  I have now had it since Saturday and don't feel the buyers remorse.But what about DND?I actually used it to great effect last night during our session.  I had need for a quick random encounter, and had the compendium up and ready to pull something up in their level range.  Later that night, a player had a question about an item they had lost their card for and no one brought the book it was in.  15 seconds later I had the compendium entry up.  Another player imported his character sheet using the iplay4E and it looked great.  This probably isn't anything special to those used to having computers at the table, but for me it was an eye-opener.  Especially when table space is a premium, this took up no more space than an additional book.  So yes, I like it so far <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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