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Message: <blockquote data-quote="neonagash" data-source="post: 6375929" data-attributes="member: 6778280">a lot of people here are creating a false divide between online gaming with digital tools and in person gaming. My group and a lot of groups I know use all or mainly digital tools for our in person game. Theres a large TV at the head of the game table. I run an HDMI cable from the computer tower into the TV and split screen it so that the TV can show maps, roll20 or other VTT's over the years, initiative charts and dice rollers, everything. And now with Chrome cast we dont even need to move the tower or get the cord, if i ever get around to buying it. I dont think I've had more then 1 or 2 paper character sheets at the table since the early days of 3e either. Digital tools just make everything so much faster and easier. I can set everything up during the week, save files so I can make little edits here and there to customize maps, save monster stats and files as well as NPC's as I  go, the list goes on.  For modern games theres lots of programs that let you download things like google earth and customize them with place markers and descriptions. I've even seen one with the ability to edit the world map so you get a nice earth looking world with cusomized continents, cities and names. I said goodbye to stopping the game for 20 minutes to draw out a battlemat and set down mini's a long time ago and would never look back. Any tactile benefit was more then offset by the constant delay of the game to set up or map out where the characters were.</blockquote>

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