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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beginning of the End" data-source="post: 4747905" data-attributes="member: 55271">Didn't they make that game like 20+ years ago? Yeah. It was called Dark Tower. I seem to remember, though, that it was still played on a tabletop. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The blending of digital information/tools and analog information/tools is already happening at tabletops around the world. Compromises between the strengths and weaknesses of both are being experimented with.For example, in the campaign I'm currently running:(1) I don't use a laptop. Why? Because I routinely have 6-10 sheets of information laid out around me that can all be accessed simultaneously. That's about 9000 square inches of display. My laptop has about 100 square inches of display. The laptop is just not an efficient use of my table space.(2) But one of my players has a laptop. They keep the SRD up it and can quickly search out esoteric bits of information much quicker than I can track them down in a manual. That player chooses to keep a paper-and-pencil character sheet because (a) they find updating it to be quicker than a digital sheet and (b) they like to have their character sheet always within glancing distance, while their computer screen is often dedicated to other tasks.(3) Another player keeps a laptop open for tracking their character.(4) Another player keeps a paper-and-pencil character sheet, but tracks all of their spells and equipment on a laptop spreadsheet. They also use their laptop for rolling dice (whereas the rest of the table still rolls their dice the old-fashioned way).But it's still a tabletop game.</blockquote>

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