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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 7697700" data-attributes="member: 13703">In my 5E group most people have their phone with them.&nbsp; Occasionally someone will discreetly sent a text or step away from the table to answer a call.&nbsp; A couple of times we’ve tried to quickly search for a rules situation online to see if someone else had the same problem as us, but usually the DM just makes a call and we look stuff up online between sessions.When we were playing 3.5E one player used to look up abilities and such related to his character on his tablet.&nbsp; When I was DMing I used to have a laptop open to the d20SRD website to quickly look up some rules, spells or monsters as I found the search function and hyperlinks quicker to find what I wanted instead of looking in the rulebook.&nbsp; I also normally had a spreadsheet open to track XP and magic items.&nbsp; If a player was missing from the session I’d also normally bring their character sheet up on Obsidian Portal, but often this sheet was out-of-date.There has been one player that I’ve seen playing a game on their phone during a session.&nbsp; I was a little miffed at that, but didn’t say anything about it to him or anyone else.&nbsp; The biggest distraction with mobile phones is probably when we get off-topic during the game and someone whips out their phone to show everyone else a funny pic or YouTube video they saw.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 7697700, member: 13703"] In my 5E group most people have their phone with them. Occasionally someone will discreetly sent a text or step away from the table to answer a call. A couple of times we’ve tried to quickly search for a rules situation online to see if someone else had the same problem as us, but usually the DM just makes a call and we look stuff up online between sessions. When we were playing 3.5E one player used to look up abilities and such related to his character on his tablet. When I was DMing I used to have a laptop open to the d20SRD website to quickly look up some rules, spells or monsters as I found the search function and hyperlinks quicker to find what I wanted instead of looking in the rulebook. I also normally had a spreadsheet open to track XP and magic items. If a player was missing from the session I’d also normally bring their character sheet up on Obsidian Portal, but often this sheet was out-of-date. There has been one player that I’ve seen playing a game on their phone during a session. I was a little miffed at that, but didn’t say anything about it to him or anyone else. The biggest distraction with mobile phones is probably when we get off-topic during the game and someone whips out their phone to show everyone else a funny pic or YouTube video they saw. [/QUOTE]

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