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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5444149" data-attributes="member: 54877">Another good way to stop "grid think" while still getting a lot of the advantages of it is to use everything you use with a grid--except the grid itself. Put the minis or tokens or whatever down on the table.  Put them in approximate positions.  When someone wants to move, ask them to move "about their speed or less".  If they want to know if that target is 10 or 11 squares away, eyeball.  If its really close, and you don't have too many rules lawyers, ask for opinions.  If they guy wanting to know just moved?  Let him move a bit more to remove doubt.   If a PC wants to run between two enemies, and it is kind of borderline whether he can make it without an OA, then give him an option:  Run right by one, and suffer one OA, or split the difference, make an Athletics or Acrobatics check.  Succeed, no OA. Fail, two OAs.   If someone absolutely wants to get picky about distance, whip out a flexible tape--preferably one of those used for sewing, but a carpenter one will do in a pinch.  Very deliberately hold it up between you and the table, squint, and say, "look like about 9 inches to me."  Then put it up.   I guarantee that if the grid itself is the thing slowing you down, this will speed things up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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