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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3281234" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have found laptops to be a pain. We had one player bring one so he could take notes. This sounded like a good idea. In practice he would be so busy concentrating on his writing and spellchecking and grammar that he would miss things and then ask us to repeat what had just happened. He was also a two finger typist and he typed slower than when he wrote notes by hand.He also would also be so busy with the typing that he was never ready when his turn came up in combat and this slooooowed the game way down.As for looking up things in books in the computer it always seemed faster to grab the right book flip to the page than to wait for the computer to load the page.We had another player who kept his sheet on a laptop which was ancient and took forever to change pages so to look up say a skill would seem to take forever.And then you had the player who would surf the net, get tons of IMs, check his email. The DM asked him to close the laptop and his attention then was fully on the game and he was very engaged in the game. So it was not that he was board he was just so used to multitasking when he was on the computer.</blockquote>