I have tried playing on my phone for a while, but it is small and I have crap battery. I have tried playing on two tablets now and fustrated because it is so slow on there it is unusable. I didn't have the money for a small laptop which would have been ideal. What do you guys use?
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27 Y/O Female, UK southampton.
Looking for good times and more nerdy friends to enjoy playing with.
As a player, my phone is fine. It doesn't need to so a lot, so can last the session.
When DMing at the game store, I use my MS Surface to track encounters, books for the adventures, and my phone for statblocks.
When DMing at home, I use the Surface to run everything apart from the actual adventures, which wil either be on my phone or a book, depending on the medium I have the adventure on.
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I use a Dell laptop. I think I could do it on an iPad Pro, but haven't tried putting it through the paces when everything works so well on a laptop. I had considered buying a Chromebook to try everything that way. In theory it would be a great inexpensive solution as I run everything but Discord in Chrome anyway.
When you mention playing on the tablets, were you using the DDB App on the tablets or the website in a browser on the tablet? I've had good luck with the latter, assuming you have decent wifi available.
What is slow about it? I use a 10+ year old Microsoft surface and i never feel like its slower than on my desktop.
Is it the dice? I know there is something you can turn off or on, i dont remember which, in your brower that is called graphics acceleration or something like that, that helps with the dice being laggy.
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I have tried playing on my phone for a while, but it is small and I have crap battery. I have tried playing on two tablets now and fustrated because it is so slow on there it is unusable. I didn't have the money for a small laptop which would have been ideal. What do you guys use?
27 Y/O Female, UK southampton.
Looking for good times and more nerdy friends to enjoy playing with.
Since my group uses Zoom I have a laptop with an additional monitor. One for zoom and one for DnDBeyond
Depends on what I'm doing.
As a player, my phone is fine. It doesn't need to so a lot, so can last the session.
When DMing at the game store, I use my MS Surface to track encounters, books for the adventures, and my phone for statblocks.
When DMing at home, I use the Surface to run everything apart from the actual adventures, which wil either be on my phone or a book, depending on the medium I have the adventure on.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
I use a Dell laptop. I think I could do it on an iPad Pro, but haven't tried putting it through the paces when everything works so well on a laptop. I had considered buying a Chromebook to try everything that way. In theory it would be a great inexpensive solution as I run everything but Discord in Chrome anyway.
When you mention playing on the tablets, were you using the DDB App on the tablets or the website in a browser on the tablet? I've had good luck with the latter, assuming you have decent wifi available.
both, was crazy slow
27 Y/O Female, UK southampton.
Looking for good times and more nerdy friends to enjoy playing with.
What is slow about it? I use a 10+ year old Microsoft surface and i never feel like its slower than on my desktop.
Is it the dice? I know there is something you can turn off or on, i dont remember which, in your brower that is called graphics acceleration or something like that, that helps with the dice being laggy.
When not playing in person, i play D&D using Roll20 & Discord on my laptop.
I have a dedicated desktop for D&D. Before that I had a cheap laptop and it worked for most things.
I started playing D&D from the basic box set in 1979.