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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 999387" data-attributes="member: 6390">We have mini's, but those are for final showdowns, important battles, or if the kids go to bed.See, we have wee-ones, protohumans if you will, that wander about. They eat dice, slobber on character sheets, draw on treasure lists, goop up party treasure lists.And mini's are grabbed and run off with.Nothing spices up a game trying to get the evil necromancer away from a giggling child before it is gone forever or thrown in the tiolet.And I've been playing for 20 years. True, the children weren't mine in the beginning. They were little brothers and sisters, cousing, nieces and nephews.Figures are a hassle. We use them VERY rarely. For the most part, I make sure I describe the encounter well.If there is any confusion, my players do something that I haven't seen anyone elses do. They ASK QUESTIONS! GASP! CHOKE! Can you imagine the gall? Asking for description clarification! OMG! The gall!Anyway, LOL, we hardly use them, and I dislike the focus on mini's because I recognise it from my marketing classes in college."Ensuring that accessories must be bought, preferably plentiful and "collectable" accessories, will increase the profit margin of the product beyond what an unaccessorized product will ever bring."That, and:"Accessory manufacturing can be just as profitable as manufacturing the product itself. Accessories can move with trends, and if done correctly, factory errors or poor quality control can result in "collectable editions" of these accessories."Plus, I hate the "electron cloud" feel of the facing with the new mini-focus, since there is no real facing and direction.But hey, we just houseruled it, along with weapon speed (Which is logical, and realistic, and my players are intellegent enough to use it without slowing the game) for our non-playtesting games.Anyway, I'm rambling, but having fun...Keep up the debates! After all, if you don't play correctly, Wizards will send thier crack "Canon-Fodderites" to your house to beat you down with boxes of Collectable AD&D Cards....</blockquote>

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