Heathen72
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• Interrupting the flow of the game to set up the grid-map/tiles and miniatures.
For me it's more than that. Even with the best miniatures and the quickest of setups, there is a loss of immersion, wonder and visualization the moment the miniatures are laid out on the table. Players go from imagining the environment that is being described, or describing the adventurous and swashbuckling actions of their characters to focussing on a plastic grid of inch by inch squares covered in miniatures and nutting out the number of moves they have left.
Sure, it's a fun minigame, and it can be genuinely exciting, but you have to work at maintaining the sense of wonder.
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