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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5151217" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>There is one thing that a tablet (not necessarily just the iPad) does not bring to the table that a laptop does: a vertical monitor and larger footprint.</p><p></p><p>I'm all for gadgets at the table. I'm <strong><em><span style="color: DarkOrange">Mr. Projector</span> </em></strong>for Christ's sakes. But the reason I LIKE the projector is because it is <u>not</u> intrusive. It is technology which unites the players - it does not divide them.</p><p></p><p>When a DM uses a laptop instead of a DM screen, I'm okay with that, but only as it does not introduce a "new" barrier we have not had to live with in the past. Ideally - I'd rather that barrier wasn't there at all, either.</p><p></p><p>But the more players use laptops at the table, the less I like them. They take up space on the table, with wires everywhere, and above all: <strong><em>create a physcial barrier between the player and the centre of the table where the mini/projected map is and divide the players from one another.</em></strong> </p><p></p><p>I don't like that. I want people sitting up and playing without barriers between them or their minis. I want everyone focussed and facing one another and ENGAGED in a tabletop RPG.</p><p></p><p>A laptop screen interferes with that ideal in a way that a tablet which lies flat on the table like a PHB does not. </p><p></p><p>Added functionality over a laptop? Perhaps not. But more convenient form factor with tangible and real beneifts in terms of social interaction at the gaming table? Yes. I think so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 5151217, member: 20741"] There is one thing that a tablet (not necessarily just the iPad) does not bring to the table that a laptop does: a vertical monitor and larger footprint. I'm all for gadgets at the table. I'm [B][I][COLOR=DarkOrange]Mr. Projector[/COLOR] [/I][/B]for Christ's sakes. But the reason I LIKE the projector is because it is [U]not[/U] intrusive. It is technology which unites the players - it does not divide them. When a DM uses a laptop instead of a DM screen, I'm okay with that, but only as it does not introduce a "new" barrier we have not had to live with in the past. Ideally - I'd rather that barrier wasn't there at all, either. But the more players use laptops at the table, the less I like them. They take up space on the table, with wires everywhere, and above all: [B][I]create a physcial barrier between the player and the centre of the table where the mini/projected map is and divide the players from one another.[/I][/B] I don't like that. I want people sitting up and playing without barriers between them or their minis. I want everyone focussed and facing one another and ENGAGED in a tabletop RPG. A laptop screen interferes with that ideal in a way that a tablet which lies flat on the table like a PHB does not. Added functionality over a laptop? Perhaps not. But more convenient form factor with tangible and real beneifts in terms of social interaction at the gaming table? Yes. I think so. [/QUOTE]
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