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<blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 472929" data-attributes="member: 2480">Glad to see soemone else thinks like I do. In fact most of the time I use some cheap wooden chess and draughts pieces both for the PCs and the NPCs. If I need something extra, I'll draw up a paper token. Then I use a big poster frame with a plastic front and a 1 inch grid drawn on the backing paper for the battle area.Figures and scenery can add to the immersion but only if they exactly match the described situation. All too often I have found players paying more attention to the models than to the DMs descriptions, which causes them anguish and the DM trouble when he has to repeat descriptions. With simple tokens the players know they must pay attention to what I say, and it reminds them that the board is just an abstraction of the game, not the game itself.By the by, hello Valmyre! <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deadguy, post: 472929, member: 2480"] Glad to see soemone else thinks like I do. In fact most of the time I use some cheap wooden chess and draughts pieces both for the PCs and the NPCs. If I need something extra, I'll draw up a paper token. Then I use a big poster frame with a plastic front and a 1 inch grid drawn on the backing paper for the battle area. Figures and scenery [i]can[/i] add to the immersion but [i]only[/i] if they exactly match the described situation. All too often I have found players paying more attention to the models than to the DMs descriptions, which causes them anguish and the DM trouble when he has to repeat descriptions. With simple tokens the players [i]know[/i] they must pay attention to what I say, and it reminds them that the board is just an abstraction of the game, not the game itself. By the by, hello Valmyre! :) [/QUOTE]

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