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We’ve been doing Theater of the Mind now for well over a year, and I have to admit that I’m seriously missing the battlemap and minis...

I would happily use maps and minis more if they took less time to set up and take down. But I play (mostly) in meatspace, so that's not...

Didn't have the money for minis to start with and I didn't play with them for quite a while. I started using tactical sketch maps in the...

While I agree with much of what you've said here, this is a pretty bad misrepresentation of storytelling games. Most of the time in...

I was gonna say the same thing.

My first RPG games mostly didn't use minis or maps. We were poor college students who had to choose between buying weekend food or PHB...

I dont use D&D Illl tell you that much. I dont see that as an issue, I like the complex combat systems in RPGs as much as I like the...

Breaking out the grid and miniatures usually involves more time and effort than actually doing the combat. Everything is described by...

I like to use both depending on the situation and would ideally prefer to save the board for certain highly tactical battles. But...in...

Loosely! Most of the time, not all, but most of the time the only 3 spacial relationships that matter are... 1. Too far away to shoot...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. There are pros and cons to theater of the mind style of play, and much of it is determined by the...

I've used war as a background. For example in my very long-running campaign, the PCs needed to resolve a war in the homeland of one of...

Our current campaign is set in the middle of civil war, with our party being elite mercenary company that sided with one of the factions...

I've never seen that book. Will check it out. Yeah I usually want a bit more than that, though I do reuse cool maps, rotate them, drop...

When running sandboxes I'll have some local stuff semi-prepped, say within a day's travel of the PCs' current location. I'll have...