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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 3070314" data-attributes="member: 17969">Man, I wish I could use a laptop at the table.Instead, I had to drag my desktop up and down the stairs every saturday and set it up on the living room floor.  It was kinda nice that it was under the table instead of on the table--That way, there was no screen between me and the table.  It was a pretty low table and I'm a very sprawly person, so I sat on the ground and used the table as my GM screen while the players sat on chouches and chairs.  It worked out great, except for the annoyingness of carting a desktop up and down the stairs.And I got pretty good use out of that computer.  I run Dark•Matter (a modern occult/conspiracy setting), and at the beginning of the game I found I D•M themed website that allowed me to post mission briefings and such for my players to access.  But there were problems accessing the website at the table, and it got pretty time consuming to update, so I switched to using the computer for GM notes and for accessing the books I had in PDF form.I think there's something nice about players having laptops in modern games, given that their characters have access to similar equipment.  Seeing them searching google maps to find the location of a murder sight and similar stuff really offsets my concerns about laptops being a distraction.</blockquote>