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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5929319" data-attributes="member: 54877">If you want to ease into gridless, I second this as critical:&nbsp;&nbsp;You can run something entirely in the mind, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with using tools, the grid being just one example.&nbsp; If you want to dabble in gridless and don't have the experience to pull it off, try to use more abstract tools.&nbsp; Instead of a grid, miniatures for everything, drawings to scale, etc. use some dice or coins or other markers for monsters (or groups of monsters like rats), plop down some pencils or popsicle sticks for walls (roughly), and so forth.&nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;The rats are here, the goblins are there, you stepped through this door, there is water dripping over here, and that wall there has a dark doorway in it.&nbsp; Distance thuds come from a hallway over there.&nbsp; The whole room is about 30 by 50 feet.&quot;&nbsp; Then adjudicate from that and the players' actions, instead of trying to hold it all in your head.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5929319, member: 54877"] If you want to ease into gridless, I second this as critical: You can run something entirely in the mind, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with using tools, the grid being just one example. If you want to dabble in gridless and don't have the experience to pull it off, try to use more abstract tools. Instead of a grid, miniatures for everything, drawings to scale, etc. use some dice or coins or other markers for monsters (or groups of monsters like rats), plop down some pencils or popsicle sticks for walls (roughly), and so forth. "The rats are here, the goblins are there, you stepped through this door, there is water dripping over here, and that wall there has a dark doorway in it. Distance thuds come from a hallway over there. The whole room is about 30 by 50 feet." Then adjudicate from that and the players' actions, instead of trying to hold it all in your head. [/QUOTE]

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