I have had to repeat myself to players that had nothing more to get distracted by than their character sheet, pencil, and dice. 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. In case the character has unlocked magical powers as an Adept, list these powers and briefly touch upon them.I *require* my players to use pencil and paper, for two reasons:ġ. Write down the supernatural abilities your character possesses - the skills they can cast, the rituals they have experience with, and the abilities to affect technology by force of will.Players that chose to create a decker from all the available Shadowrun character types will be able to include the cyberdeck in the description - it means the character will be able to interact with the computer network directly. If the character had any technology-based improvements to their body, they should be described as well.
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