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Champion
 
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| Ultimately, this is why I don't like playing with too large a group. With more than a handful of players, characters miss out on the limelight. If the character is not getting 'screen time' then the player is often less engaged. Having a laptop, book or cousin Artemisia's knitting in front of them is only going to encourage further disengagement. I'm currently playing in a game of My Life With Master and I'd argue that one of its fundamental weaknesses is how easily it can become a collection of one-on-one sessions (albeit with an audience) despite the collaborative set up.
-- -- -- Eos: Manius Shard, most patient man in the World of Dawn FnH: Officious Guard no.1
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Apprentice
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| I think when considering what rules I'm having for my first campaign re: books/laptops, I'll be forbidding them. Not sure how harsh that is, but I'm having my character gen session tonight, and if anyone has huge objections to that, I'll listen if its justified, but I'd like all players to be interactive and absorbed in the story and the events, rather than waiting for their turn to do something. For me, in a game I'm playing in, I'd not take anything with me to distract myself with, because in my mind, I'm there to play the game and be a part of the story the GM is telling, rather than lying around with a book doing nothing (my partner ran a game and someone did just that, so she chucked him out) ~Emma/FitPiggy
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Heroic Knight
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I don't have a problem with laptops, or reading for that matter. So long as it's that player doing something, and not 'holding court.' I've even lost my objection to the laptop replacing the character sheet. Then again, I so rarely look at character sheets anymore, they could bring their shopping list to the table and I wouldn't notice.
As a ref, I find them handy, but not essential. I don't see a need to use most of the 'GMtools' type software.
My rule for distractions is simple: If you were doing something else and missed it, then you missed it. Period. Will I repeat it for you? No.
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PD - The bald guy in GOD
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Squire
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| I find that the disraction can be of us if my charicter is out of play for a while and others are been delt with where things I know not are occuring. Knitting I find no worse than doodling due to it only needing part of the mind. And as long as players stop when asked or if braking the atmospher it's fine with me. I've even writen some of my best campains and senarios while involved with other games (and that with out borrowing other peoples ideas)
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PD: Pastor Henry of the Ordo Dictum Dominus, Missioner General of HellLT: Iago Grim6P: IC: Obadiah Thrift OC: One man brain stormRL: gog, Preacher, Scout Leader, far to busy
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