We even do more than just the sheets, we use a virtual tabletop and a projector to handle maps and movement as well as show character art and such. My group has gone fully laptop based for PF1. Personally I prefer digital character sheets, but my players are evenly split between digital and paper. There are a couple reticent players that I basically had to get a copy of their character sheet and manually rebuild it on FG, but I'm glad I did - building characters is fast and being able to see the whole party's skill bonuses in one place is amazing. I started using Fantasy Grounds recently, and I've required my players to build their characters in that regardless of what character sheet they actually plan to use - specifically because Fantasy Grounds has a very convenient "party view" that lets you see the entire party's stats at once. and then use their phones to play mobile games, read reddit, or some other distraction while it's not their turn. However, my players seem much more interested in having a paper sheet that will get cluttered, smudged, coated in food and beverage stains, have important details missing, and have things forgotten to be updated, only to have me print a replacement 2-3 times per campaign.
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I would absolutely love it if all of my players would have their characters on their phones - especially if it were through a service I could also view the character through on PC at the same time, and that helped them with the details so things wouldn't get written down without all the needed info because of forgetting or just not wanting to write "that much"
Stacking their dice into towers, rolling little games of yatzee to themselves (even making up their own lil dice games to be playing), doodling on the margins of their character sheet, or even just twirling their pencil around.īetter, in my opinion, to get at the root of the problem (whether it's a player being genuinely distracted/disinterested in the game, or someone else being overly sensitive to the idea of someone being distracted/disinterested) than to give up all the benefits of allowing technology at the table "just in case"
I have had to repeat myself to players that had nothing more to get distracted by than their character sheet, pencil, and dice.
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I have had plenty of players not know what they can do because they were left responsible for looking up their abilities and writing them down and there were a lot of words so they summarized or just wrote a name and a page reference, instead of having a tool that would present them the full relevant information at any moment they needed it with no more effort than checking a box.Īs for getting distracted, that's a whole different problem and the presence of technology just makes the symptoms more readily visible, it's not the cause though. If I was running Pathfinder Society stuff then I'd just roll more nat 20's against someone who wasn't paying attention :-P (not really, but I might threaten it) I realize this may seem Draconian to some, but I'm the Dragon Master!!! And these are my friends. During role play interactions where the party is talking to Someone Important, inevitably I have to repeat myself because someone was playing on their Atari 2600 and not paying attention!!! It's too easy to get distracted, and I'm not just talking about during combat. Phones, tablets, computers, game boys, iPods, Commodore 64s, and Babbage machines are not allowed at my table, nor are things like them.
More than once I've had players not know what they can do because they had a tool put everything together automagically.Ģ.
Creating a character for the first time, and having to level it up manually means you actually had to go look up the ability and write it down, and not just check a box. I *require* my players to use pencil and paper, for two reasons:ġ.
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