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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 1702037" data-attributes="member: 2785">Exactly. A grid of some sort, even if it's just a piece of graph paper with pencil marks, is a requirement for playing fair in 3E. If my DM arbitrarily decided every variable of the battlefield on the fly I'd feel cheated of the opportunity to Do Cool Stuff Within The Rules (tm). I want to see the disposition of allies, enemies & terrain clearly on a grid before I decide what I'm going to do on my turn. It would drive me nuts if my DM just said, "There's a couple guys on your left and a few more down the hall running toward you. What do you do?" No, no...give me distances, movement rates, dimensions of the battlefield, enemies' distances from each other; where can I 5-foot step to set up a Cleave opportunity? Where can I position myself so I won't get flanked? I want to know this stuff. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Caveat: to each his own. I'm not attacking anyone. I just know that I played with a GM who ran his game off the cuff for years, and while combats were exciting at first, after a while I became frustrated with his inability to clearly describe what exactly was going on, especially in big battles. I made him draw me maps. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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