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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7239458" data-attributes="member: 79141">I read a Chris Perkins article once where he advised DMs not to get irked when players whip out their phones.&nbsp; He said he regarded it as part of the challenge for the DM to keep players off their phones.&nbsp; I have a great group, but the players do spend a lot of session time staring at a screen, faces all lit up by something that has nothing to do with our game.&nbsp; Following Perkins I have so far resisted asking them to stop, and tried to persuade them to zone out by increasing tension, changing the tone of my voice, etc.&nbsp; But modern technology is hard to compete with.&nbsp; (Just ask my 4-year-old who would rather spend time on the ipad than do just about anything else.)&nbsp; It does get under my skin sometimes, especially when more than one player - sometimes three or four out fo a group of six/seven - has succumbed to the lure of social media.&nbsp; Especially since if I did the same myself the whole game would grind to a halt.&nbsp; I'm tempted to do so in a passive-aggressive demonstration (&quot;See?&nbsp; How do you like it?&quot;) but as I only have an old-school Nokia, I'm not sure it would be terribly convincing.&nbsp; Anyway, just venting.&nbsp; As I say - my players a generally great: imaginative, engaged, regular and punctual.&nbsp; So it's more of a pet hate than a real grievance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7239458, member: 79141"] I read a Chris Perkins article once where he advised DMs not to get irked when players whip out their phones. He said he regarded it as part of the challenge for the DM to keep players off their phones. I have a [I]great[/I] group, but the players do spend a lot of session time staring at a screen, faces all lit up by something that has nothing to do with our game. Following Perkins I have so far resisted asking them to stop, and tried to persuade them to zone out by increasing tension, changing the tone of my voice, etc. But modern technology is hard to compete with. (Just ask my 4-year-old who would rather spend time on the ipad than do just about anything else.) It does get under my skin sometimes, especially when more than one player - sometimes three or four out fo a group of six/seven - has succumbed to the lure of social media. Especially since if I did the same myself the whole game would grind to a halt. I'm tempted to do so in a passive-aggressive demonstration ("See? How do you like it?") but as I only have an old-school Nokia, I'm not sure it would be terribly convincing. Anyway, just venting. As I say - my players a generally great: imaginative, engaged, regular and punctual. So it's more of a pet hate than a real grievance. [/QUOTE]

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