Re: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
(Post 1764917)
To take your gaming material to your game when said game is not conveniently held in your computer room.
A tablet works much better for this than even a small laptop. Though we d have one guy who's using what looks like one of those hybrid Surface things.
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Rulebooks at the gaming table can be a distraction. Once you're familiar enough with the rules, don't open the books at the table. Have them accessible in some form for reference should be sufficient - and with laptops, netbooks, tablets, e-readers, smartphones being all but ubiquitous these days, access to quick reference PDFs is simple, and unlike physical books they can make use of a Search which can be pretty handy for quick reference
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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
(Post 1764917)
As to printing out your pdfs I'd have to say absolutely no. I own a _lot_ of paper gamebooks but I want those professionally done and not DIY.
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That's your opinion, and would doubt its the majority.
I have several file folders with printouts of part or all of various PDFs for GURPS and other systems, although I don't do that so much these days, I just print the pages I might want to reference, or cut and paste short sections into word and print those for reference.
I wasn't suggesting printing out all of those books - maybe just a copy of GURPS Lite for rules reference at the table, copies of the Templates for character generation, some blank character sheets and that should be sufficient. |