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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8513886" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Am I an outlier on the use of technology at the gaming table? I have no idea. I <em>think</em> I’m somewhere in the middle.</p><p></p><p>I started using computers for gaming back in the early 1990s when I wrote up my Supers:1900 campaign in MS Word and did a HERO character sheet in Excel* (or whatever the spreadsheet in MS Office was). To this day, 90%+ of my DM campaign notes are in electronic form. Since I don’t have a laptop, that means I’m either parked by my iMac or using my iPad or iPhone.</p><p></p><p>When the Palm Tungsten e2 was introduced in 2005, I quickly grabbed one up. I started doing a lot of my RPG note-keeping and brainstorming on it while sitting in waiting rooms or the like. Then I started making my character sheets- and a bunch of other stuff- on them, one character at a time with the stylus**. Since then, almost all of my character sheets exist primarily in electronic form.</p><p></p><p>(Alas, the Palm died years ago, and the only way I could get my accumulated files was getting Geek Squad to download the files in un formatted form onto a CD-ROM…which is currently hiding from me.)</p><p></p><p>And as a GM, I sometimes use my electronics to provide images, gifs, sound effects or even backgound noises & music to enhance the evening’s events. (Sometimes, I do so at the request of whomever is running the game if I am not.) Electronic devices also handy for passing along secret messages to individual players at the table via text messages.</p><p></p><p>Because of all that, a group in which computer devices are banned from the table would be inconvenient for me to join. I could do it, but..I’d have to remember to print stuff up, etc. Woudn’t necessarily stop me from joining a group, but it would be a factor.</p><p></p><p>BUT…I’m also not one of those guys with everything in electronic form. 99% of my gaming books, modules, magazines and the like are physical. I don’t know if I’ve ever opened any of the hobby pdfs I have been given. (I’ve never purchased any.) When our group tried 4Ed, I didn’t even use the DM’s online tools all that much. I’d possibly work out the sketch of a PC, but my actual characters were written up in my Notes app, using my own books.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>* I was very disappointed when MS stopped supporting the spreadsheet and replaced it with a different program, without issuing an automatic data conversion function.)</p><p></p><p>** I even wrote 75% of a guitar chordbook for New Standard Tuning on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8513886, member: 19675"] Am I an outlier on the use of technology at the gaming table? I have no idea. I [I]think[/I] I’m somewhere in the middle. I started using computers for gaming back in the early 1990s when I wrote up my Supers:1900 campaign in MS Word and did a HERO character sheet in Excel* (or whatever the spreadsheet in MS Office was). To this day, 90%+ of my DM campaign notes are in electronic form. Since I don’t have a laptop, that means I’m either parked by my iMac or using my iPad or iPhone. When the Palm Tungsten e2 was introduced in 2005, I quickly grabbed one up. I started doing a lot of my RPG note-keeping and brainstorming on it while sitting in waiting rooms or the like. Then I started making my character sheets- and a bunch of other stuff- on them, one character at a time with the stylus**. Since then, almost all of my character sheets exist primarily in electronic form. (Alas, the Palm died years ago, and the only way I could get my accumulated files was getting Geek Squad to download the files in un formatted form onto a CD-ROM…which is currently hiding from me.) And as a GM, I sometimes use my electronics to provide images, gifs, sound effects or even backgound noises & music to enhance the evening’s events. (Sometimes, I do so at the request of whomever is running the game if I am not.) Electronic devices also handy for passing along secret messages to individual players at the table via text messages. Because of all that, a group in which computer devices are banned from the table would be inconvenient for me to join. I could do it, but..I’d have to remember to print stuff up, etc. Woudn’t necessarily stop me from joining a group, but it would be a factor. BUT…I’m also not one of those guys with everything in electronic form. 99% of my gaming books, modules, magazines and the like are physical. I don’t know if I’ve ever opened any of the hobby pdfs I have been given. (I’ve never purchased any.) When our group tried 4Ed, I didn’t even use the DM’s online tools all that much. I’d possibly work out the sketch of a PC, but my actual characters were written up in my Notes app, using my own books. * I was very disappointed when MS stopped supporting the spreadsheet and replaced it with a different program, without issuing an automatic data conversion function.) ** I even wrote 75% of a guitar chordbook for New Standard Tuning on it. [/QUOTE]
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