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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 6319224" data-attributes="member: 9213">There are a couple of things that I find disconcerting about this thread.As a result I'm glad that I dont personally know or game with most of you. Distracted players, because that's really what we're talking about here, existed before tablets and smartphones and other electronics. People built dice towers, read their fantasy (or whatever novels), crocheted, read other game books, made characters and a myrad of other things. I think drawing is more distracting than playing on a tablet or device and I cant tell you the amount of people that I've played with over the years who were doing character sketches or flat out working on an actual project while playing the game. That takesconcentration and focus and yet i almost never hear people banning PENCIL AND PAPER from their tables.If youre going to ban electronics because they are a distraction then ANYTHING that takes the attention away from the GM and the other players should be removed as well. Otherwise you're selectively scapegoating. As a host I would feel completely uncomfortable enforcing a electronics removal policy. If you feel you can't be trusted not to indulge in your own propertyduring a game so much so that you feel that you have to leave it in another room?I'm not sure that I'd want to game with you. It's your property. OWN IT. and have enough self control to behave accordingly. My group uses tech at the table for quick reference. I use it to help facilitate the game. I travel from Queens to Manhattan to run a game. I rarely carry books with me anymore. Maybe the PF core Rulebook but everything else i need is usually compiled in a document,cut and pasted from different sources and printed out in advance. If I need to quick reference something I have several apps on both my phone and ipad. If I need to do more thorough research I have most of my books as PDF on my ipad and laptop. I have an artist as one of my players at present. She is one of the few people that I've played with who can be working on a sketch (and she's almost ALWAYS sketching) and be counted upon to know what's going on in the game. Another one of my players in constantly researching new spells and feats for use in the game. He's a little more distracted but should I ban game focused research from the table and tell him to do it before or after the game? It doesnt bother me that he does it most of the timeas long as he's paying enough attention to what's going on at the table.</blockquote>

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