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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8513886" data-attributes="member: 19675">Am I an outlier on the use of technology at the gaming table?  I have no idea.  I think 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.</blockquote>

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