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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katana_Geldar" data-source="post: 5251573" data-attributes="member: 85476">If we have a laptop in our group, it's always away from the table. Not just away from the chips, drinks and pizza, but it stops it being used all the time. That way, when you want to look something up on there it's because you need it and have the time to search. Usually, a laptop look triggers a break. I prefer laptops for two reasons, distribution and my own notes. Firstly, I hate lending books because there is a fair chance that they will come back in a worse condition than I last had them. I have spent $50-$80 each on my gaming books and the more expensive they are, less liekly they will be lent. (My Star Wars Core book, will never ever leave my hands) So I have the choice of either telling my players to buy their own, letting them use my books while I am there or sending them a pdf of the book for their own pleasure. Guess which one wins? Speaking as a gamer who exists in a town without a dedicated gaming store it can take weeks, sometimes months, for books to get into our hands. And ordering usually requires purchasing the book. And if the book isn't any good... I do realise all the legal issues with pdfs, but I would be willing to purchase a legal pdf (perhaps on a multiple license system similar to software) so I can send it to my players. For my own notes, I find pdfs invaluable. I run Star Wars Saga games and a lot of the statblocks are spread through several books. I find I use five books at a bare minimum for NPCs (Core, Threats, Starships, Relevant Era Book and Relevant campaign-style Book). Rather than crowd the table it's much, much easier to have the statblocks there alongside my campaign notes. This also means if I give the players a ship or droid, it's easier to distribute the stats rather than running off a set of number in-game as I need to have the book with me.</blockquote>

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