Typically I use pen and paper, but I’ve been interested in a tablet or similar device for a while and am interested in what other people are using.
The reMarkable 2 seems like a really cool option to play with, but also pretty pricey for trying it out to see if it would even work well.
While it’s not directly related, when playing in games, I usually use a paper character sheet for reference, a notepad for consumables, story notes, and HP, and Pathbuilder on my phone for spells.
On a related note to using Pathbuilder on phones, is anyone aware of an iOS alternative?
As a GM:
I host online for friends, so we use digital tools.
- Foundry, hosted on my desktop computer, with these modules:
- Dice So Nice, and several skins.
- Dice Tray, to make rolling single dice easier.
- Pathbuilder Importer mostly for my lazy players.
- Obsidian, for when I’m running homebrew. But with the revamping of Foundry’s journal system, I may stop using this.
- Discord for game audio.
As a player:
I have a tablet PC with a pen. I take notes on Rnote (free, open source.) I used to use OneNote which was great because I could search my handwriting, but I stopped using Windows.
Historically, I always used physical dice because I was playing in-person. I did my PF1e character sheets manually by writing on the PDF in OneNote, but for PF2e I do enjoy Pathbuilder to help me plan it out. For actual play, I build my character sheet in Foundry (even if the GM isn’t using it for the game) just to make everything easy for me to find.
- Foundry, hosted on my desktop computer, with these modules:
Another Foundry + A/V on discord.
I also use discord for game related threads.
I’ve recently discovered a similar program called Guilded, which seems to have all the same important creatures of discord, but better organized (and a larger file share limit). We have not moved over, but I’ve been spinning up and organizing a server there, just in case Discord craps the bed like Reddit did.
