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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 1429481" data-attributes="member: 413">A picture is worth a thousand words and a battle map with some minis on it is essentially a picture of combat.&nbsp; Not every combat requires minis, but most are better with them, IMO.&nbsp; Personally, I've never understood the need some DMs have to describe combat (or any aspect of the game) as if he is telling a story.&nbsp; I've got my own imagination and it is far better than anything a DM can describe.&nbsp; Don't get me wrong...I don't mind the DM giving some cinematic descriptions now and then, but if it is over done it just gets old and distracting (like having too many highly dramatic slow-motion shots in an action movie..eventually you just start wondering when the movie will be over).The need to have minis look exactly like whatever it is they represent is far more distracting to me than just having a collection of generic minis and letting my imagination do the rest (I've been known to use dice, pennies, whatever).&nbsp; I had a dwarf cleric to a war god that is one of my favorite PCs of all time.&nbsp; I had a gnome with a spear for a mini for him.&nbsp; It looked nothing like what Theorin Forkbeard looked like.&nbsp; Two of the players in my group are professional mini-painters (full-time job...who knew?).&nbsp; They're really good at it.&nbsp; They painted up a fig to be Theorin...but it wasn't like how I pictured him so it kind of ruined it for me (not that I didn't appreciate their effort...it was a really kewl paint job).&nbsp; Kind of like when you read a book and then see it on the big screen and it just doesn't do it for you because the director's image of important characters, locations, etc doesn't match yours.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Uller, post: 1429481, member: 413"] A picture is worth a thousand words and a battle map with some minis on it is essentially a picture of combat. Not every combat requires minis, but most are better with them, IMO. Personally, I've never understood the need some DMs have to describe combat (or any aspect of the game) as if he is telling a story. I've got my own imagination and it is far better than anything a DM can describe. Don't get me wrong...I don't mind the DM giving some cinematic descriptions now and then, but if it is over done it just gets old and distracting (like having too many highly dramatic slow-motion shots in an action movie..eventually you just start wondering when the movie will be over). The need to have minis look exactly like whatever it is they represent is far more distracting to me than just having a collection of generic minis and letting my imagination do the rest (I've been known to use dice, pennies, whatever). I had a dwarf cleric to a war god that is one of my favorite PCs of all time. I had a gnome with a spear for a mini for him. It looked nothing like what Theorin Forkbeard looked like. Two of the players in my group are professional mini-painters (full-time job...who knew?). They're really good at it. They painted up a fig to be Theorin...but it wasn't like how I pictured him so it kind of ruined it for me (not that I didn't appreciate their effort...it was a really kewl paint job). Kind of like when you read a book and then see it on the big screen and it just doesn't do it for you because the director's image of important characters, locations, etc doesn't match yours. [/QUOTE]

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