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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Verision" data-source="post: 5192421" data-attributes="member: 72236">I DM with a laptop. I hook it up to my buddy's 50" TV and use MapTools to run encounters and it is slick. -No more looking through my friend's giant collection of minis to find good representations of monsters: I just find a picture online of the monster, take a screen grab and make a token with TokenTool (before the session).-No more explaining my drawings: I used to use a large dry erase board that had a grid on it for encounters. I'd constantly have to explain my drawings (yes, that's a lake. no, that's a puddle, not a rock). -Macros: Dear god yes. I set up macros for the monster's that are reused throughout a campaign and roll attack and damage at the same time without having to get out the dice, roll them, and count everything up. Makes my turns much faster.-No more counting squares: Dear god, this helps. I have PCs that have high movement (some with 8-9) and MapTool has a built in "ruler". Click on the ruler tool, click on your space, drag to find the distance. Great for moving, finding distances for ranged powers, etc. I could go on and on about how much I love MapTool, but that is only one part of using a laptop to DM. The other large part is having all my notes in one place. I no longer have to keep a stack of papers with me at all times. I just use a series of notepad docs. One for session archives (players did such-and-such last session), one for XP earned, one for session planning (first encounter is X, then pcs will talk to so-and-so, etc). Much easier to keep organized, and to find any particular piece of information quickly.</blockquote>

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