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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadras" data-source="post: 6313938" data-attributes="member: 6688277">I must admit as a DM who utilises his laptop for designing adventures/encounters/monsters, recording house rules, making notes, looking up odd rules on a PDF and making some quick numerical calculations I find that I cannot function without a laptop and would be loathe to disallow another character from using electronic devices when I am so beholden to mine, unless of course it was distracting him during play. My laptop has completely organised my life as a DM - no more mounds of paper of half adventures, notes, magical items...etc. It is all filed and labelled neatly. All notes relating to an adventure or filed under that adventure's name.I regularly email players information on knowledge of locations, persons, organisations and items. It helps to have that easily accessible during sessions. It also assists with recording battle grid encounters, capturing my grid design onto the phone and uploading it onto the laptop for later reference.And when we would like to search the internet for 3rd party information - again back to the laptop.Finally I use it for mood music.Occasionally a player might bring an electronic device but it has never been an issue. They still use the old paper pencil. When I was a player in an Eclipse game I remember using a laptop to record all relevant information/notes and I'm pretty sure that encouraged the GM as I was listening to his every word. At times he would even ask me for names or a reference he made. I do think if you are respectful of technology it shouldn't change the game.That all being said - the type of game you running and system you are using might determine the need for electronics at the table. The above works for me because I'm running a rather long campaign - I might not utilise tech if I was a player at an open-closed 2-3 session DnD adventure.</blockquote>

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