ShinHakkaider
Adventurer
Replace "online tools" with "miniatures", "battle mats", "cards", "laptops", or any other innovation or change to the hobby in the last decade, and you have the cry of a now-humbled doomsayer.
I dont think that miniatures and battlemats are innovations or changes. I think that they've been around at least close to the beginning of the hobby. Card's aren't necessarily new either. We'rent there spell cards during 2nd edition. There were also the use of cards in games like TORG and character cards in DC HERO 2nd(?) edition.
In my games, Laptops (and more recently my iPad2)are more of a utility than a necessity. If something happened to my iPad or MacBook Pro I'd still have my hardcopies with which to still run a game. I'm all for using tech to add to and advance what's already there, but when the absence of that tech in the case of strictly on line support of a game being yanked, leaving me high and dry? I fully understand and respect the trepidation.
The sad part is that you got three other people to agree with you.
Was that bit of sniping even necessary?