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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rallek" data-source="post: 3972198" data-attributes="member: 8463">I too, was disappointed in general with NWN, though to be fair I found that there were a few good multi-player servers that were a lot of fun. As far as taking a bunch of time to make tactical decisions, well, that sounds like SRPG territory to me, so NWN might not be the best choice of media for that.Secondly I find that if I really want to break out the minis and go all tactical on my table top, well it's time to play some warhammer fantasy battles, or some 40k. Of course, then we're talking inches and templates instead of squares, but close enough, I suppose.Thirdly, since the last half of our first 3e session, my group has demanded a 30 second limit on decisions during combat. This means that sometimes the mage gets an ally caught in an area of effect, sometimes you don't remember in time that creature x is immune to effect y, and sometimes you charge the enemy lines only to come up a few feet short. To be completely honest, we stopped using minis after 5 or 6 sessions, because we found that it took too long even with the "30 seconds per turn" rule. After years of 2nd ed, and many other RPGs we find it fairly easy to keep the running battle in our heads. On the rare occasion that someone is having trouble visualizing the field, a 30 second sketch of the enemy positions has never failed yet at getting us all on the same page.We all (my group) play and enjoy video games, but we all like D&D too, and in my experience we like it for all of the things that it can do so much better than a video game. Perhaps we just like to put emphasis on other parts of the game. As always YMMV.</blockquote>

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