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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 5151217" data-attributes="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 Mr. Projector for Christ's sakes. But the reason I LIKE the projector is because it is not 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: 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 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.</blockquote>