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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heap Thaumaturgist" data-source="post: 266894" data-attributes="member: 4516">I add my hollow, booming, death-knell chime to the "Rules, Not Minis!" crew.I don't use minis.  Never have.  In fact, I sort of hate minis.  When I'm gaming, I'm trying to get the players to 'see' what I'm describing.  I want them to experience a bit of verisimilitude in-game, dial-in and log-on to their imaginations.  So minis would be great, actually, if they sprung fully-formed and painted directly from my imagination.  But they don't.  I've never seen a mini that I said:  "Wow, that's what I was trying to get across."So if they don't look anything like what I'm describing ... conceivably ANYTHING placed on the board can represent the poisition of troops.  Mostly I use coins or dice or rectangular cut-outs for monsters with large facings.  It's just for keeping positions straight.I never liked wargames because I've always been a kid with an allowance, a highschooler without a job, or a poor college kid.  Any "game" that you have to purchase things to stay competitive sort of sucked for me.  I buy RPGs because their price-to-value is unmatched by any other past time, for me.  60 bucks of books can last me decades.  50 bucks of computer game lasts about three weeks.Sort of a pointless block of text there, I'm sure everybody that doesn't use minis does so for their own reasons, and I'm not really wanting to start a discussion on the viability of minis.  What I'm saying is, even though D&D now has alot of tactical flavor and you pretty much have to run combat with a board and counters ... I want rules, not minis.I'm holding my breath waiting for the mass-combat books to come out.  My money is always tight, but for a mass combat book, I'll be waiting outside the game store with the money in my hand the day it comes out.  It's one of the few things I feel I NEED to make my game better.--HT</blockquote>

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