Reply To: Using Technology and Apps in Table Top / Board games / RPG. Good or Bad ?

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I sit in the camp of it should be an aid, not a requirement.

To echo @sundancer‘s comments, if the app let’s me do something I could always do with the game (be it managing a board game, spinning up lists or quickly finding rules) then it’s aiding me and making my life easy: that I appreciate. However, as soon as the game requires an app to run, the game could well become defunct at some point which is a poor proposition in the first place.

Now, I like technology, I make software for living after all (as do quite a few of us here if memory serves) so I love how much power it can bring to the hobby, but the line between the two is key because if I can’t go back to paper at the end of the day my ability to engage with that game is beholden to someone else. Someone who’s interest may only hold so long as it’s financially possible, or even only financial incentivised to be so.

So make all the apps you want! Just give me a book or a pdf I can take and keep that will protect against whatever the future may bring.