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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3858491" data-attributes="member: 1003">I pre-draw some maps on 3/4&quot; graph paper I print myself.&nbsp; I square off the cells in Excel and use a dotted-line border to make it.&nbsp; But you're right, there's no way around it for random and unexpected encounters.Agreed.It's not nostalgia.&nbsp; I was able to DM AD&amp;D 2E while hiking through the woods with my friends.The main thing though is that 3E has added a lot of tactical options which make combat more interesting, and give players more choices than &quot;I swing my sword&quot;, but this added complexity adds to the time needed to run combat and also requires that we &quot;off load&quot; some of the information processing to tools like battlemats and minis.2E (I only ever played one session of OD&amp;D and never played 1E) was nice in that it was &quot;low overhead&quot;, but I'm not sure I can give up my options either.&nbsp; It would be like going back to black and white TV having seen color.&nbsp; That's why I really hope the 4E designers can reduce the brain burden of combat without reducing the tactical options.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 3858491, member: 1003"] I pre-draw some maps on 3/4" graph paper I print myself. I square off the cells in Excel and use a dotted-line border to make it. But you're right, there's no way around it for random and unexpected encounters. Agreed. It's not nostalgia. I was able to DM AD&D 2E while hiking through the woods with my friends. The main thing though is that 3E has added a lot of tactical options which make combat more interesting, and give players more choices than "I swing my sword", but this added complexity adds to the time needed to run combat and also requires that we "off load" some of the information processing to tools like battlemats and minis. 2E (I only ever played one session of OD&D and never played 1E) was nice in that it was "low overhead", but I'm not sure I can give up my options either. It would be like going back to black and white TV having seen color. That's why I really hope the 4E designers can reduce the brain burden of combat without reducing the tactical options. [/QUOTE]

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