School projects and super-handy things like being able to print coloring pages on-demand for most any topic one can think up, are probably a big part of why the

School projects and super-handy things like being able to print coloring pages on-demand for most any topic one can think up, are probably a big part of why they're still so common. It is so damn nice to have a printer if you have kids of most any age. I've also yet to find a superior UI to printed pages for running RPGs. Books are great, iPads are great, laptops can be OK, but for the core material you need for a given session, there's nothing in the world I know of that beats ~20-30 pages of printed notes and excerpted bits of PDF books & some randomly-generated junk from the Web for each session, so you have only expected-to-be-relevant info in it. Nothing better when you're actually at the table. I mean, you could do the same thing writing it by hand if you have very neat handwriting, but being able to mix together your own notes and e.g. NPC template-blocks, custom maps, and commercial material pulled from books, is awesome and saves tons of time when prepping. You can achieve something similar with just an iPad, but it's still slower and more awkward to actually use—though I do have other things I use tablets for at the table, that they excel at.