Do you use minis?

[Chauzu]

Yes and no.

I don't use minis because they look too goofy-looking nowadays, but I do use stand-up pieces of paper as minis.

 

[Buttercup]

I use counters. Minis are a pain in the neck to store & transport. Not to mention that I have no interest in painting them.

 

[Creamsteak]

I'm all about plastic generic minis. That's what I would use, if I had them. The ones you must paint, or if you bend something your never going to use again, just isn't the same for me. My first DnD derivative (other than some old nintendo RPGs, specifically Dragon Warrior) was HeroQuest. Plastic minis were good enough for that game, they are good enough for me. I don't like counters either, because I (for some odd reason) can't pick them up. That, and certain kinds require cutting. I'm all about the plastic!

 

[Hellcat]

I have two cases mounted on the walls in the living room. Each houses roughly 300 painted miniatures from WOTC, Reaper, GW, etc. I love using them so long as they don't slow the game down.

 

[Dragongirl]

IMO you need more options. For me, I have never played with them, never really wanted to.

 

[megamania]

Anytime the battle will go 2+ rounds I use them.

 

[ForceUser]

We use minis for the PCs and dice for bad guys. We use 1-inch square wooden blocks and dominoes to build dungeon corridors and other terrain features. The dice are nice for numbering NPCs and the blocks and dominoes are excellent for quick construction of almost anything; we've lined them uniformly for dungeons and city streets, stacked them up to indicate platforms and ziggurats, and even jumbled them about the battlemat to represent trees, boulders, stalagmites and other natural things. No muss, no fuss, and no time spent modelling.

 

[pogre]

Miniatures becoming an integral part of D&D rules worries me, though. This is Dungeons & Dragons, not Warhammer Quest. By making this a minis game, they're taking away from the original flavour.

I think I know the point you are making here, but the original flavor of D&D did include miniatures. There was a reason all of those move rates were given in inches you know

 

[Shadowdancer]

Yeah, we started using them all the time for 3E. It makes combat so much easier to run.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I think I know the point you are making here, but the original flavor of D&D did include miniatures. There was a reason all of those move rates were given in inches you know

Heck, the cover of the original D&D books (1974 boxed set) says:

"Playable with paper, pencil, and miniature figures"

Move rates were always given in inches.

Hex outdoor maps were from wargaming. Facing diagrams in previous editions were from wargaming. Face it, people, D&D is just getting back to its roots ...