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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 4110030" data-attributes="member: 59816">I plan on trying it out soon myself.The biggest reason that I don't like mats & figures is that in every game I've played WITHOUT them I remember the events as if I was my character - seeing the events from my character's eyes.WITH mats & figs I remember moving the figures around the mat.I think that playing without figures would be pretty silly if you bothered with measuring distances at all. It's not like the character is running along with a yardstick. "Hey, I just moved 10 feet forward!"However, it's really important to use terms like forward, back, left, and right, and to think of things in terms of here, there, and over there.Right Here is anything you can reach, or fight in melee.Here is anything you could get to with a shift. (Think of a shift as a slow, careful short move, rather than a specific minimal distance.)There is anything you could get to in a single move. (This would include moving as fast as is feasible given the terrain.)Over there can be quantified in number of moves. ("Over there by three" would take three move actions to arrive, making it now "here")Movement rates should really simply be a comparative number that suggests that in a race to get someplace quickly (or a chase) the character with the highest speed wins.This may sound complicated, but it gets pretty easy once you get the hang of it.I'd simply say that forced movement in 4e that is less than 3 would keep a character "here" (relative to where they were before, but not in melee (if that's the intent.) and any forced movement of 3+ would move the target from here to there.Anyway, I think I might be starting to confuse myself with terminology so I'll shut up now.Any thoughts?</blockquote>

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