I believe a good DM should know how to run both with and without one.
Yeah -- there's an awful lot to be said for that. Then the said GM can tailor his or her game to the current crop of players' preferences, instead of dictating his or her preference to them.
Flexibility is important.
My wife teaches yoga. I hear those three words about 12 times day.
I believe a good DM should know how to run both with and without one.Yeah -- there's an awful lot to be said for that. Then the said GM can tailor his or her game to the current crop of players' preferences, instead of dictating his or her preference to them.
Excellent point. As a screen-user, I've yet to have a player object, but I would remove it if asked. It wouldn't affect the game much (other than me taking longer to look up things that were on the screen).
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I'm a little sad Aux didn't respond to the points made, but glad that he at least stopped being a jerk.
Now, see what you did? The thread was dead again, and you REANIMATED IT!
Seriously, though, I'm sort of glad, because I am facing an epic emergency of catastrophic proportions, and this is precisely the thread to talk about it in.
At the end of my group's last session, the host went to put the GM screen on top of his bookcase, where it usually stays. However, (stupid glossy finish) it slid...BEHIND THE BOOKCASE. (I am not the GM right now, and the guy who is GM'ing does use the screen, although he doesn't lie about his rolls, which I can 100% tell.)
Now, either the host has to pull a fully laden bookshelf away from the wall and reclaim the durn tootin' thing, or else we will be denied this VITAL PART OF THE GAME, which makes everything run smoothly and totally enables the GM to do whatever he wants oh crap he can do that anyway nevermind.
It wouldn't affect the game much (other than me taking longer to look up things that were on the screen).
Though I don't use a screen to "screen" anything, I do use one. I just lay it on the table in front of me. It is usually covered with dice, books, miniatures, etc. But when I need to look something up, I just push that to the side and look at the screen. Since I rarely have to look at more than one panel at a time, it doesn't take very long.
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Now, see what you did? The thread was dead again, and you REANIMATED IT!
Well, what can I say besides that I love this thread so much?
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it slid...BEHIND THE BOOKCASE.
Most bookcases that sit on the floor rarely fit 100% flush with the wall behind them. That said, it should be a simple matter to take something long and thin (such as the blade of a sword that a lot of us gamers tend to keep handy) and use it to push/pull the screen out from behind the bookcase without having to move said bookcase...