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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 5690350" data-attributes="member: 14197">Sorry guys, didn't mean to come across as an a**hat. Upon further reading, though, I am guilty as charged.  All I was trying to say is that we are at a point in technology in gaming that the convergence of paper and digital will only sway more towards the digital side of things.  I recognize that many people may not like subscription content or electronic content that they can't download and store.  Some don't even like electronic content because of hardware failures or software obsolescence or whatever other reasons.  But the advent of in-game tools to help the DM, networked character sheets and the ability to get snapshot looks at a PCs current status (without them knowing it) are all things that are good for the game in general.   People live different lives than the ones we lived in back in 1979 or 1984 or even 1994.   And I believe that because we have instant media, instant messaging, devices that speed up our productivity in different ways, as well as a perceived expectation of instant response, eventually it will spill over into out leisure habits and hobbies. It's a natural progression, I believe.Now....   easily distracted players doing non-game related things with their iDevice while everyone else is trying to enjoy the game?  That's just rude, not the fault of technology.  The issues I see (or read about)  that people have with technology at the table are mostly human/personality/social concerns.Anyway, sorry for coming across as a jerk before.  Not my intention at all.  (And they say, never post online when you are cranky or haven't eaten all day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )</blockquote>

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