4E, the Grind and Why I Play

[Ariosto]

Riffing on Tuft's observation: If people can handle X "units" (of whatever sort) in a grand tactical game, then (with similar experience) they should be able to handle about as many individual figures in old-style D&D.

 

[Tuft]

Riffing on Tuft's observation: If people can handle X "units" (of whatever sort) in a grand tactical game, then (with similar experience) they should be able to handle about as many individual figures in old-style D&D.

The DM had a box of 34 orcs that one of the players had painted. These were used to proxy all kind of monsters; encounters were usually not measured in numbers of monsters, but numbers of such boxes. "This is a five-box encounter".