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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kamicosmos" data-source="post: 4078665" data-attributes="member: 57802">My group has a ton of laptops.  6 laptops out of 7 people, and 5 Nintendo DS's, and generally a PSP or two in the mix as well.As DM, I love having the laptop.  IM'ing players is so much more convenient than slipping them a note that everyone notices.  PDFs, dice rollers, and d20srd are fast and discrete for the DM, and spreadsheets to track XP, loot, and such is terrific.  Heroforge is great, especially when you smack the players with negative levels.  heh.  I have to admit though, I'm still big on using real dice, paper, and my big stack of books for most things.  Call me old school if you must, but it is Pen & Paper D&D, after all!Players, well.  I've been tempted to shut off internet access a few times, but in big rule discussions, it's nice to have multiple people researching something to get a resolution quicker.  The aforementioned IM'ing would also be a big loss.  But,  usually too much distraction for the players, not too mention potential abuse of looking up things they shouldn't.So, mixed results for me.  If I had to start over, I'd probably say Laptop for the DM, and one designated laptop for the players, either someone playing secretary, or simply a laptop for all to use if they need it.  I'd probably also nix the game devices, but as a Player, I know sometimes you just simply have nothing to do as the bard is negotiating for the 15th time that session, for example....   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   And as mentioned, if it's not the internet or DS/PSP, it's going to be a book, MP3 player, daydreaming, talking, whatever.</blockquote>

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