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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 4118415" data-attributes="member: 2804">You know, I was thinking about this. Given how easy I found it to track marking and conditions, I think it would be easy to do mini-less 4e combat. At least as easy as 3.5 was. And I did play 3.5 without minis several times. Heck, I only play with minis now because the people I currently game with really like minis. I'd take it old school if they'd let me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But I would just run it the way you have always done mini-less combat. The only change I would make is to just make some notations next to the HP totals of your monsters. For example, put a B when its bloodied and put a PM for Paladin Mark, or a FM for Fighter Mark. Since mini-less games are totally based on narrative description and imagination for positioning, this is important so there is no disputes coming up later (&quot;Hey! I wasn't marking that guy! I was marking this other guy!&quot;). For example, if I had a Bloodied kobold with 11 hp left that had been marked by the Paladin, I would write down &quot;11 B/PM&quot;.I also recommend some scratch/grid paper in case you need to roughly draw out positions of certain monsters and environmental hazards like pits, rope bridges, water, etc. You probably wouldn't need it though unless there was some confusion. I never used minis in 1e and 2e, but we always kept scratch paper on hand for this purpose back then too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 4118415, member: 2804"] You know, I was thinking about this. Given how easy I found it to track marking and conditions, I think it would be easy to do mini-less 4e combat. At least as easy as 3.5 was. And I did play 3.5 without minis several times. Heck, I only play with minis now because the people I currently game with really like minis. I'd take it old school if they'd let me. ;) But I would just run it the way you have always done mini-less combat. The only change I would make is to just make some notations next to the HP totals of your monsters. For example, put a B when its bloodied and put a PM for Paladin Mark, or a FM for Fighter Mark. Since mini-less games are totally based on narrative description and imagination for positioning, this is important so there is no disputes coming up later ("Hey! I wasn't marking that guy! I was marking this other guy!"). For example, if I had a Bloodied kobold with 11 hp left that had been marked by the Paladin, I would write down "11 B/PM". I also recommend some scratch/grid paper in case you need to roughly draw out positions of certain monsters and environmental hazards like pits, rope bridges, water, etc. You probably wouldn't need it though unless there was some confusion. I never used minis in 1e and 2e, but we always kept scratch paper on hand for this purpose back then too. [/QUOTE]

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