I started with totem because I was broke, but all the people I was introducing seemed disappointed at the lack of minis. Because I'm still kind of broke I've started printing out little tokens to use, any time I can't convey enough information by dropping some d6 on the grid. I can probably upgrade my whole system early next year.
The Human Target
Adventurer
The idea that ever mini needs to be an exact representation of what it stands or is a head scratcher.
Minis, paper chits, dice, jelly beans, coins, pop cans, etc all serve the purpose of clarifying the scene and the make the mechanics easier to use.
Who cares if you use a black dragon to represent a red dragon?
Or one of your kids pokemon toys?
Or a pack of cigarettes?
It's cool to have an exact representation of a thing, but hardly necessary.
And in point of fact, its going to be plenty hard to ever have an exact representation anyway.
If one of my players ever complained "You said the orc raiders have axes but those minis have spears! Not cool!" I'd slap the Cheetos out of their mouth.
Minis, paper chits, dice, jelly beans, coins, pop cans, etc all serve the purpose of clarifying the scene and the make the mechanics easier to use.
Who cares if you use a black dragon to represent a red dragon?
Or one of your kids pokemon toys?
Or a pack of cigarettes?
It's cool to have an exact representation of a thing, but hardly necessary.
And in point of fact, its going to be plenty hard to ever have an exact representation anyway.
If one of my players ever complained "You said the orc raiders have axes but those minis have spears! Not cool!" I'd slap the Cheetos out of their mouth.
Cristian Andreu
Explorer
We use Theatre of the Mind. We tried to play with minis once, but somehow it made things more complicated. We do play the occasional skirmish with the D&D miniature rules sometimes, but never use them for roleplaying.
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