Digital Chronicles and Characters?

[Shane Weber]

Spawning a bit off of this thread. I wanted to see what the official stance, if there is one, and if not everyone's thoughts using scanned copies of character sheets (or hero lab on tablet) and scanned chronicles at a table.

Do you think it's ok? Does it create an undue distraction? Is it a great way to have all of your backup characters? Does it create additional trust issues?

Personally I think it's fine and I see people doing it already with hero lab, and I rarely see people get audited, but I want to have my docs with me if I do. I love the paper feel and would bring my character and his folder of past glories, but it would be cool to have all of my backups digitized in case I need to swap characters on the fly.

[BigNorseWolf]

I believe the official stance is that it has to be paper

was the last i'd heard

[Shane Weber]

Well that does give a pretty clear answer, if a little dated. I wonder if current campaign leadership has any different thoughts on the subject? What are my chances of casting a summon Tonya spell and it working this close to Gen Con?

Thanks BNW

[Mystic Lemur]

I don't see how any of the circumstances or reasoning behind the ruling have changed, but you're welcome to try your luck. She probably won't reverse it without a good reason why, though.

[Preston Hudson]

Shane Weber wrote:

Well that does give a pretty clear answer, if a little dated. I wonder if current campaign leadership has any different thoughts on the subject? What are my chances of casting a summon Tonya spell and it working this close to Gen Con?

Thanks BNW

Here is more of an updated ruling on this issue.

Current Campaign Leadership Ruling on Digital Chronicles and Character Sheets

[BigNorseWolf]

I don't see anything about chronicle sheets there.

But i did skip my nap...

[Shane Weber]

Thanks Preston, I am curious about chronicles, but I would hope the ruling would be similar

My original reply before I saw preston's post:

I completely understand the broken device point of view, and while devices have become slightly cheaper, they are not cheap enough to the point that we can just replace them the next day like we can with paper. I do see our age of technology where a good majority of the GMs, in my area at least, use electronic devices to run their games and I only see the frequency of this increasing.

Per the Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide.

Quote:

In order to utilize content from an Additional Resource,

a player must have a physical copy of the Additional
Resource in question, a name-watermarked Paizo PDF of
it, or a printout of the relevant pages from it, as well as a
copy of the current version of the Additional Resources
list. You must inform the Game Master that you plan
to use Additional Resource material before play begins,
so he has a chance to familiarize himself with the new
material.

It is already written that we can use a PDF of source material, given we own the pdf, and we let the GM know ahead of time so they can become familiar with it. If they don't own the material, how can they become familiar with it without using our electronic device, if that is how we choose to bring it to the table?

I would say, they add line that if you choose to use electronic media that you assume all risk to your device.

Now I don't have a perfect answer for the usable boon section, except that we simply say, that you can use electronic chronicles however you cannot use an expendable boon on them.