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<blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1429365" data-attributes="member: 14403"><p>I agree and disagree. Minis are a love-hate thing with me. 3E D&D has pretty much made it mandatory for the use of minis or at least the use of a drawn out area on graph paper for a combat. We can thank WOTC for the Attack of Opportunity rule which from what I've seen is the biggest reason for it.</p><p>Hates:</p><p>1) Tactical movement - "Let's see... I have a movement of 30 (counts out the spaces). Crap, if I move there I'll be out in the open, maybe instead I'll go here (counts out the spaces again). Damn, that'll give the Orc Warchief an attack of opportunity.</p><p>2) Drawing time - "Okay guys, take 5 while I erase the Battlemat, get ink all over my hands, and draw out the next section". Or those wonderful times when you draw the whole thing out and the party promptly takes a passage down an area that isn't yet drawn out. They've explored 10% of the map you've drawn out and now you have to erase the whole thing and do it all over. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> </p><p></p><p>Loves:</p><p>1) Spellcasting - Forever ends the discussion on whether a player was within the radius of a Fireball, Sleep, or other Area Effect spell.</p><p>2) Movement - Halfling Rogues no longer just appear behind a villan to Sneak Attack him. Makes slow movement PC's really hate how slow they move.</p><p></p><p>I'm considering picking up the Dungeonworks set from Worldworks. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the site. Takes a bit of prep work to build ahead of time but at least it doesn't cost near as much as the Dwarven Forge stuff. If I don't get that then I'll probably go with Tact-Tiles since you can pull up a part at a time and it uses Dry Erase which is much cleaner than those stupid overhead projector pens.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.worldworksgames.com/" target="_blank">Worldworks Web Site</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.bc-products.net/Index.html" target="_blank">Tact-Tiles Web Site</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calico_Jack73, post: 1429365, member: 14403"] I agree and disagree. Minis are a love-hate thing with me. 3E D&D has pretty much made it mandatory for the use of minis or at least the use of a drawn out area on graph paper for a combat. We can thank WOTC for the Attack of Opportunity rule which from what I've seen is the biggest reason for it. Hates: 1) Tactical movement - "Let's see... I have a movement of 30 (counts out the spaces). Crap, if I move there I'll be out in the open, maybe instead I'll go here (counts out the spaces again). Damn, that'll give the Orc Warchief an attack of opportunity. 2) Drawing time - "Okay guys, take 5 while I erase the Battlemat, get ink all over my hands, and draw out the next section". Or those wonderful times when you draw the whole thing out and the party promptly takes a passage down an area that isn't yet drawn out. They've explored 10% of the map you've drawn out and now you have to erase the whole thing and do it all over. :mad: Loves: 1) Spellcasting - Forever ends the discussion on whether a player was within the radius of a Fireball, Sleep, or other Area Effect spell. 2) Movement - Halfling Rogues no longer just appear behind a villan to Sneak Attack him. Makes slow movement PC's really hate how slow they move. I'm considering picking up the Dungeonworks set from Worldworks. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the site. Takes a bit of prep work to build ahead of time but at least it doesn't cost near as much as the Dwarven Forge stuff. If I don't get that then I'll probably go with Tact-Tiles since you can pull up a part at a time and it uses Dry Erase which is much cleaner than those stupid overhead projector pens. [URL=http://www.worldworksgames.com/]Worldworks Web Site[/URL] [URL=http://www.bc-products.net/Index.html]Tact-Tiles Web Site[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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