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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fiery Todd" data-source="post: 146258" data-attributes="member: 550">Use minis. Even if you have to use counters, or coins, or m&ms, whatever. It does speed things up and prevents arguements. Yes, its a shameless plug, but once we at FDP read the rules for the first time, we couldn't imagine this edition being played without minis, and/or COUNTERS (get you Counter Collection today!).  If you've never used a battle mat before, I highly recommend it.  It really does speed things up, and makes AoO, spell radius, etc. a non-issue. P.S. - It's also perfectly fine to be burned out. Our group has played everything from Magic the Gathering, to Battletech, to Heroquest, to Mage Knight, to d20 Star Wars, in an effort to keep things new and spry. So far, we have been playing d20 systems weekly non-stop since January, and it may be time for us to switch systems for a while. No system will suit a group forever. It never did in the old days, and it certainly won't now. </blockquote>This is so true.  I'm a firm believer that if you want to keep your D&D game fresh, you play other games.  D&D is the first love, but there's nothing wrong with breaking it up a bit.  We play a little Feng Shui on the side.  Great game.  Board games (and I mean that in the broadest sense) gives the DM a break from always having to be the "host".  For me, the focus is never on the game itself, but rather, simply having an excuse to get together with friends and having a good time.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/QUOTE]

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