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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 647276" data-attributes="member: 5137">Personally, I find miniatures cumbersome. My reason is this: without miniatures, I can focus on and deal with those parts of the combat that everyone is interested in or is risky, and ignore (or just briefly describe) those things that I know will go one way or the other. I have narrative freedom from too much detail.Without miniatures, I can give the illusion of completeness without dealing with every single issue. With miniatures, if the 7 NPC warriors and the 5 orcs don't move and act every round while the party is handling the 2 ogres... the players can see it not happening. This, despite the fact that the PCs would very well not pay attention to the warriors and orcs while they had their hands full of ogre ichor.Miniatures lend too much of a god's eye viewpoint. In return for avoiding that, I can deal with occasional questions of "can I see 'em?".Important: This is not gospel. Many people prefer a tactical, god's eye view to the clash and chaos of the wormling mortals. Or they prefer exacting precision in measurements, or they prefer handling all of the little details. Whatever, it's fine.And truth be told, they're a better target audience for a combat-heavy system like D&D, because combat-heavy systems and miniatures are strongly overlapping groups.</blockquote>