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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Misanthrope Prime" data-source="post: 9855550" data-attributes="member: 6776166">Players don't need a tablet or laptop; a phone that has a character sheet, dice roller, quick lookup of player-facing rules and the ability to take and reference notes are all you need. The DM, arguably, is the one who needs some kind of personal computer, but I don't think that's more or less "unfair" than the DM also being expected to buy or own more books than the players. If you've got a party of say, five people who want to play D&D and no one owns a computer that can run the software, I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't crowdfund a used tablet or computer for your DM and adjusted for inflation the price per player isn't much higher than expecting everyone to have their own copy of the PHB back in the 70s or 80s.The gulf in popularity between 5e D&D and the next most popular RPG is pretty vast, it's not like it's the 90s. D&D and PbtA may both be tabletop games, for example, but in terms of market cap and resources it's like comparing Disney Parks to Six Flags. Disney doesn't copy what Six Flags does, they target different markets... but sometimes Disney does get complacent and Universal can sometimes eat their lunch and light a fire under their ass (in this analogy, Universal is like, Pathfinder during 4e).I respect my audience enough to be honest in my contempt and vocal about my neophilia. The argument is not about the individual benefits of non-digital tools (which do exist, and I'd love to hear them!), but about the sentimental attachment to them. It's not a pipe, it's a picture of a pipe.</blockquote>

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