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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5695377" data-attributes="member: 8835">live character sheet handling is nice on my iPad.  I used to use Excel on my laptop.  Then I moved it to Numbers on my iPad.Very nice and easy enough to use.  A good dedicated app could be better, but I had full technical control to correct/adjust things.On my spreadsheet, every spell, skill, and feat is hyperlinked to d20srd.org.  So it makes it easy to look up how to do stuff that I want to do.I don't tend to surf while gaming, so it wasn't a distraction for me.  My friend actually apologized to the group once, because he was getting distracted by FB and not paying attention to the game on his laptop.As a GM, I've been using software to help generate conttent since 1990.  Including software I wrote in HS on the Apple IIe.I'm not sure I could ever get it to generate a full adventure, but generating a dungeon, generating the monsters in each room (with stackblock) is easy.Generating a town, and then all the NPCs for the town (w/ stats, gear) and their names is also easy.At that point, one has a sort of sandbox effect (generate all the basic world content then let the PCs do what they will).I use a number of generators and paste their content into the Word document that will become the adventure.  Since I seldom put ink in my printer, I actually tend to run off my laptop from the Word document.</blockquote>