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Originally Posted by Bruno
Both of these statements are making some pretty broad assumptions about people, bordering uncomfortably on "hurting wrong fun".
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Sorry. This is biased by my sight problems. Switching between looking-at-screen and looking-at-people-ten-feet-away modes takes me whole seconds in taking glasses on and off and refocussing. This has become so familiar over the last five years that I forget how unusual it is.
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On the other hand, if you're using the computer to vastly speed up the dice rolling, status conditions, and damage tracking for a horde of 20 enemies (or the like), that can only increase the amount of attention the GM has to spend on the players, instead of on accounting.
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I find that much easier using notes on paper, which I can switch to more easily than a screen, and where I can improvise symbols to jog memory much more easily than typing correctly or clicking a GUI.
Also, everyone I've ever seen try to use a computer as a direct support tool in a session has ended up focussed on it, rather than the players. I can believe you manage not to, but you put more effort into this kind of stuff than most people.