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4 years ago  ::  Feb 23, 2009 - 11:36PM #41
shivafang
Date Joined: Nov 3, 2005
Posts: 417
When we first started our home game, we had 2 players who had laptops. We found they took up too much space at the table and they took more time looking stuff up. My roomate and I (who alternate DMming) decided to ban laptops at our table. We have one player who keeps stuff on a handheld device (blackberry or ipod touch - I'm not sure) but he's organized and quick about pulling up the information.

4e just isn't complicated enough to need a computer (not like 3.5 with all of it's bonus stacking complexities and recalcuation of stats when your base scores change).

As for LFR gamedays - it seems our group is lenient with laptops, I've only seen a DM refuse a player his laptop once - and that was because he opened World of Warcraft as we were sitting down to play (another player had his laptop open only for his character sheet - but did start playing minesweeper after a lengthy battle and his character being out cold with no healers available)

EDIT: Oh and there's when I play LFR onlne - but that's entirely different Everyone's at a PC then.
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4 years ago  ::  Feb 24, 2009 - 1:07AM #42
ibixat
Date Joined: Oct 19, 2008
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At our last game I had the laptop out, didn't take up any more space because of it and honestly my footprint at games is kinda tiny with or without it, if I take it out I just sit it on top of my character sheet/stuff till I need what's under it then put it on my lap. Last game I had roughly a 16x18 inch area on the corner of a table for my stuff, that was both sets of dice, my character sheet, power cards and rewards cards. Laptop fit nicely on top of sheet and cards, with power cards in hand and still able to reach dice.

The only problem I have with them being out in game is the screen tends to block the view of the player too much, I'd love to use a tablet PC for playing if it were thin enough though. I honestly think that as a character sheet would be sweet.
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