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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2431152" data-attributes="member: 11697">I'll admit some surprise here about mini use and the numbers on the poll. Obviously from my comments on the other thread that spawned this one, I don't use minis or a grid, though if it's a complex fight at player request I'll draw a map.But none of the groups I've ever played with have regularly used minis or grids. My first group ever (DnD 3e), playing under the worlds least imaginative DM, didn't use either. My second group playing under the worlds most imaginative DM (DnD 3e, and Shadowrun) never once used them at all. The two other groups I played in I think used minis in two encounters the entire time I played with them, and my own campaign has maybe used coins and cheetos as counters on a hand drawn map a dozen times in three years. [Admittedly, one fight in the Quasielemental Plane of Steam involving about 40 NPCs in a 3d space needed representation, but that's an extreme example I think].I'd be curious to see the breakdown too in the poll numbers about with who voted for which poll choice, what edition of DnD you first started playing in. A number of responses for 'always use minis' seem to approach it from a wargaming perspective, and I have to wonder if it's something related to starting the game in 1e, but it's not something I can really tell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 2431152, member: 11697"] I'll admit some surprise here about mini use and the numbers on the poll. Obviously from my comments on the other thread that spawned this one, I don't use minis or a grid, though if it's a complex fight at player request I'll draw a map. But none of the groups I've ever played with have regularly used minis or grids. My first group ever (DnD 3e), playing under the worlds least imaginative DM, didn't use either. My second group playing under the worlds most imaginative DM (DnD 3e, and Shadowrun) never once used them at all. The two other groups I played in I think used minis in two encounters the entire time I played with them, and my own campaign has maybe used coins and cheetos as counters on a hand drawn map a dozen times in three years. [Admittedly, one fight in the Quasielemental Plane of Steam involving about 40 NPCs in a 3d space needed representation, but that's an extreme example I think]. I'd be curious to see the breakdown too in the poll numbers about with who voted for which poll choice, what edition of DnD you first started playing in. A number of responses for 'always use minis' seem to approach it from a wargaming perspective, and I have to wonder if it's something related to starting the game in 1e, but it's not something I can really tell. [/QUOTE]

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