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<blockquote data-quote="TailleferTheWise" data-source="post: 7697649" data-attributes="member: 6790098">I've not had any serious problems with them during our games. In fact, they've been quite handy in some instances. For example, I use an app called Tasker on my Android phone to accomplish all sorts of automation tasks in my day-to-day life, and I thought there could be a cool way to use it for D&amp;D as well. A person who plays a rogue in our game occasionally wants to attempt doing something sneaky without the other PCs knowing, and I thought it would add to the intrigue if the actual players were in the same predicament. So, I set up a task with the app to do this:When my phone gets a text message from his phone containing the keyword &quot;Burgle&quot;, my phone automatically turns on its screen (which sits face up next to all the books) and displays a menu with a picture of the rogue and the words &quot;Burgle Time!&quot; on a big button at the bottom of the menu. When pressed, the app chooses a random number between 1-20 and adds his Stealth/Sleight of Hand mod (he's proficient in both) and displays the result at the top of a second menu, which I compare against the (passive) perceptions of all involved. This menu also has &quot;Success&quot; and &quot;Fail&quot; buttons, that when pressed, automatically send a reply text message containing the number rolled as well as the &quot;Success&quot; or &quot;Fail&quot; indicator back to the phone of the player.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TailleferTheWise, post: 7697649, member: 6790098"] I've not had any serious problems with them during our games. In fact, they've been quite handy in some instances. For example, I use an app called Tasker on my Android phone to accomplish all sorts of automation tasks in my day-to-day life, and I thought there could be a cool way to use it for D&D as well. A person who plays a rogue in our game occasionally wants to attempt doing something sneaky without the other PCs knowing, and I thought it would add to the intrigue if the actual players were in the same predicament. So, I set up a task with the app to do this: When my phone gets a text message from his phone containing the keyword "Burgle", my phone automatically turns on its screen (which sits face up next to all the books) and displays a menu with a picture of the rogue and the words "Burgle Time!" on a big button at the bottom of the menu. When pressed, the app chooses a random number between 1-20 and adds his Stealth/Sleight of Hand mod (he's proficient in both) and displays the result at the top of a second menu, which I compare against the (passive) perceptions of all involved. This menu also has "Success" and "Fail" buttons, that when pressed, automatically send a reply text message containing the number rolled as well as the "Success" or "Fail" indicator back to the phone of the player. [/QUOTE]

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