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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 3057305" data-attributes="member: 8835">I've done a variety of things, some fairly low-tech with the PC (and I'm a high-tech guy)In all cases, I use a laptop, because it takes about as much space as a DM screen would.I've run my adventure from Word, instead of printing it on paper.&nbsp; That worked OK, though I might recommend using Notepad because the formatting stuff can make it harder to quickly manipulate a document.I've managed a game from Excel.&nbsp; I just use one tab per topic.&nbsp; I had a tab for unidentifed items, one for NPC/PC initiative and HP tracking, one for XP tracking, and one for logging events.&nbsp; I tracked the entire party and NPCs because we were playing in a car, otherwise, I'd let the PCs do their own stuff.&nbsp; I had Excel sort the characters based on randomly generate initiative values.&nbsp; To roll, init, I simply re-sorted the worksheet (#s were rerolled by Excel).&nbsp; That worked pretty well.I've also, as a player, run my PC from Excel.&nbsp; I made a spreadsheet for tracking the stats, skills, feats, and equipment for me.In most cases, I always roll with real dice.&nbsp; It's just more fun.&nbsp; The computer should be used for tracking things, primarily.I use PDFs of the books I need, and the d20srd.org site.&nbsp; BTW, for $15 you can get an offline version of the d20srd site, so net connection doesn't have to be a problem.&nbsp; I prefer an HTML srd to a PDF, especially the d20srd site because it is very well linked.Let me know if you want me to post the spreadsheets I created.&nbsp; They're not user friendly, except in that I tried to make them easy for me to navigate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 3057305, member: 8835"] I've done a variety of things, some fairly low-tech with the PC (and I'm a high-tech guy) In all cases, I use a laptop, because it takes about as much space as a DM screen would. I've run my adventure from Word, instead of printing it on paper. That worked OK, though I might recommend using Notepad because the formatting stuff can make it harder to quickly manipulate a document. I've managed a game from Excel. I just use one tab per topic. I had a tab for unidentifed items, one for NPC/PC initiative and HP tracking, one for XP tracking, and one for logging events. I tracked the entire party and NPCs because we were playing in a car, otherwise, I'd let the PCs do their own stuff. I had Excel sort the characters based on randomly generate initiative values. To roll, init, I simply re-sorted the worksheet (#s were rerolled by Excel). That worked pretty well. I've also, as a player, run my PC from Excel. I made a spreadsheet for tracking the stats, skills, feats, and equipment for me. In most cases, I always roll with real dice. It's just more fun. The computer should be used for tracking things, primarily. I use PDFs of the books I need, and the d20srd.org site. BTW, for $15 you can get an offline version of the d20srd site, so net connection doesn't have to be a problem. I prefer an HTML srd to a PDF, especially the d20srd site because it is very well linked. Let me know if you want me to post the spreadsheets I created. They're not user friendly, except in that I tried to make them easy for me to navigate. [/QUOTE]

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