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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Carlsen" data-source="post: 5929150" data-attributes="member: 61749">You're not a bad DM for wanting to use a battle map. It's a matter of preference.Theater of the mind isn't as tactically clear as a battle map in many respects, but it does have advantages in verisimilitude. Battle maps have a tendency to draw you out of the imagined space, or to alter your viewpoint in combat.For example, when I think back on a combat that used a map, I tend to remember it from the top down. Using Theater of the mind, I tend to remember it from my character's point of view.Running a complex combat that way is different, though. You don't run forty rats, per say, but run groups of rats. You end up describing the scene more like you would a novel. Characters act more in regards to what's in the scene and less by whats happening in or near their threatened areas.</blockquote>