RE: Who games with a computer

["Joni Virolainen" <joni.virolainen@xxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: becubed@connexus.net.au [mailto:becubed@connexus.net.au]
>
> I asked this ages ago but want to know if anything has changed.
> Do you run ME using a computer during actual play, or do you play
> in a game
> where the GM does? If there was program support for in game
> activities would
> you?
> Rob raised the issue of creating a program that does the overlay
> / template
> stuff on demand. I've looked into this before and had come up
> with some ideas,
> but when I asked who used computers during play there were only
> about 2 people
> who did so I wrote an NPC generator instead as I thought it would
> get wider
> use.
> What do you think? Are ingame programs a waste?
>
I sit beside a computer when I run games (I keep my campaign notes and NPC
stats etc. on computer). Now I am in process of programming a combat monitor
(calculates and stores damage and effects) for CP2020. I started to make
similar for ME as well about 1.5 years ago, but the project died because of
the lack of programming skill on my part.

But to answer your guestion, CAG (computer aided gaming) is a good thing as
long as this actually speeds up the gaming and does not much hinder the
fudging that GMs sometime want to do.

"Even heroes die..."
- Oni

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