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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6817585" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Completely opposite experience here. I would be less likely to play in a game that did use them. In my "non-limited experience" (36'ish years) and playing with quite a few groups, minis were pretty much non-existent (I think once in the last three and a half decades have I ever encountered a group that uses minis as a default).Personally, I found mini's for use in 'absolute locations' to be...a distraction. The players are only half (or less) focused on what is actually happening as far as non-combat goes, and mostly focused on how to maneuver their mini on the grid so that they can get the best angle for an arrow shot, flask of oil throw, or spell cast. Things start to feel very video-game like to me...where a player will say "No, you can't hit me because the corner of that orc's mini blocks the line from him...by...let get the measuring tape...1mm! Ha!" (e.g., you are playing your video game and see the right leg, right arm and part of the right shoulder of  a monster around a corner...but you can't target it because it's center is not in your LOS).Anyway, we have used mini's for rough locations and for fun. When everyone has a personally painted mini of their character in front of them, sitting on the table, it just feels..."cool". But mini's as an important part of the game with regards to rules and whatnot? No and no thank you. Imagination and scribbled letters and numbers on a piece of paper is my preferred way to go. <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=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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