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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8503002" data-attributes="member: 42582">I agree. I worked hard, as a 4e GM, to create situations in play that would encourage the players to engage the fiction and so get those rightward-pointing arrows; but it's not trivial due to the huge overlay of rules and cues that those rules reference, together with the "every one takes a turn and contributes to the fight" aspect. Clearly a lot of groups didn't really manage it at all, given their complaints about the "boardgame-y" or "videogame-y" nature of 4e combats.I don't have any straightforward solution to this issue. I think it also comes up, via slightly different "vectors", in MHRP/Corte+ Heroic. In that case, my solution has involved developing ideas about Doom Pool use and how this interacts with Distinctions - building on examples found in some of the published adventures.EDIT: A very simple example from the "plinth" combat: acidic rain is falling (10 acid damage at the end of your turn), and so staying within the shelter of the temple matters. This is not marked on the map, so the map serves as a cue to remind people of the fact that "inside" (under shelter) there's no rain but outside you better have your acid resistance up.That's not the richest fiction of all time. But it's a bit like Baker's example of oppressive heat. It helps create a sense of the fictional space that is not just a map or board.</blockquote>