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Originally Posted by Fyrestryke You don't need them to play DND and I highly doubt 4E will change that no matter how much WotC might focus on such. Everyone knows they're only doing it to sell more minis, nothing more. I will say that having a grid and minis helps to strategize, but IMHO it also slows the game down. |
That's not what I am reading about
4e, but obviously we won't know until the books come out. My understanding is that most "powers" (which are basically the class abilities) and feats are much more mechanical in
4e, i.e. they have a specific effect on the pieces on the board. More of a "this power moves your miniature 2 squares" and "this power moves an opponent back one square" than in the current edition.
And, of course, changing measurement scale to "squares" rather than feet or inches (or meters) certainly seems to indicate that a map is preferred.
But obviously, we will see. I'm just going by my impression of what I have read so far.