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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 670387" data-attributes="member: 96">One of my games has players in Pittsburgh, PA, Camden, ME, and Providence, RI, and a town whose name escapes me in LA.  Needless to say, this would be a great deal more difficult without computers.As for prepwork, I often do PCs and NPCs using PCGen (sometimes to the point of swearing and cursing because particular thing X isn't present or working properly - the latest being golemfist rings from BoEM3 and bracers of striking from Magic of Faerun.)  Still, when it works, it's wonderful, because I can make readable PDF sheets or character statblocks instead of having to rely on the lousy handwriting of myself and my players.The handwriting thing isn't helped by the fact that most 3e sheets assume that you have built-in micrometers in your hands enabling you to write legibly in a space roughly large enough for a line of fine print from Satan's latest contract.  Computers are just self-defense against "is that a 3 or a 7?"As for note-taking and planning, I do it both on and offline, although my final notes are usually done on the computer and printed onto 4x6 cards. I don't actually use a computer during play at all.All that said, I could still do it with just a pencil and a pad of paper.  It'd just be more trouble.J</blockquote>