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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remus Lupin" data-source="post: 6318318" data-attributes="member: 12760">I use Herolab at the table and I love it, but I will plead guilty to being easily distracted by shiny objects at the table, whether it's a Facebook chat with a friend, an email from my boss, or a blog post. However, in the days before I regularly brought a computer to the table, I don't think I was necessarily less distracted. I was just distracted by other things. If the game bogged down, I'd thumb through a book or stack dice, or else step out of the room and see what someone was watching on TV.On the other hand, the advantage of having my iPad at the table or my laptop is that it not only allows me to tract and maintain my character in some more or less permanent form all in one place, but also gives me easy access to the online SRD and dozens of PDFs, without having to schlep a large and increasingly heavy cache of books.But I will acknowledge that I need to do a better job of staying focused at the table. And we tend to have multiple computers and tablets at the table, and looking over folks' shoulders, I know I'm not the only one. I do think this is the kind of thing that can be handled via agreement among the group members (e.g., no browsing Facebook while gaming!), but there are lots of utilities to computers at the table that I think are worthwhile.</blockquote>