From: | Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com |
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Subject: | GM Aids (was Re: Decentralization and Trade) |
Date: | Mon, 8 May 2000 19:50:28 -0700 (PDT) |
GM screen and do stuff with from time to time --
mainly making notes of what's happened so far, or look
up some names for near-future use. The players,
though, won't know if I'm looking up some stuff that
has to do with the adventure, or am playing Reversi
:)
>
> Ahhhhhhhhh!
> One guy who GMs sometimes uses a Laptop (or his palm
pilot) to GM with (he has dice rollers I think on
both) will sometimes sit there behind the GM screen
looking intently at the laptop or palm and just by his
face I can tell what he's doing... Especially when he
starts missing things, like the troll decides he wants
to crash through the window of the shop we're trying
to break through and he just keeps playing...It
usually ends up with me or one of the other guys
threatening him with bodily harm. It's a bad idea.
> ~Raveness
Not necessarily.
I'd have to be one of the laziest GMs in existence (I
HATE taking notes - currently, I'm running 4 PBeMs
with pretty much just what's in my head - I've got
probably half a page of notes for one, but that's
all). That means I often have to look up previous
messages, or ask the players stuff. In a face to face
game, it'd be worse, because I can't go back to look
up previous messages. :) Plus, I WOULDN'T take notes
because I'd just lose them (unless I kept a book,
which I wouldn't). Don't wanna. :)
On the other hand, a palm pilot would be GREAT for me
in face to face games, because a) I'd be a HELL of a
lot more interested in the game than anything on the
palm pilot and b) I'd actually take notes.
I think it all depends on the GM.
====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)
S.S. f. P.S.C. & D.J.
.sig Sauer
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