4th Edition WITHOUT minis

[duke_Qa]

my current dream: make a wargaming/gaming room with a couch-corner and a tabletop-corner for 40k-stuff. Use the 40k table for dnd combat, having x" strings/sticks to measure out lengths.

(And if technology improves/cheapens, i'll be getting myself a 3d printer and use that to create fancy stuff. )

Up until that time, i've already gotten my hands on the Alea tools gaming magnets. And i know where to get a a2-sized magnet-board for 20$(Ikea). All i really need now is some plastic laminate that i can put on top of a grid/maps and draw on.

 

[Herodotus]

I just use paper and draw what is going on. It's worked for every RPG I've ever played and it works for 4e, too. I honestly don't see what the big deal is....

 

[Incenjucar]

I just use paper and draw what is going on. It's worked for every RPG I've ever played and it works for 4e, too. I honestly don't see what the big deal is....

Some people have a need to "do things right" rather than just do them.

 

[Cirex]

I didn't use minis for 3e till a few months ago. I had the default blank battlemat (from the DMG) and my Warhammer minis and I needed it for a very specific battle, against the BBEG. I loved it so much that, since then, I started to use it in "important" fights.

Right now I got my first pack of D&D Minis (from Dungeons and Dread) and I'm planning to make the family grow by August. I'll be ordering 1-2 booster packs along the 4e DM screen (to have shipping costs).

I think it helps a lot with tactics and similar, and since 4e has emphasis with movement and so on, I think it could be a bit hard to play without, but certainly possible, like I did with the 3e.