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Message: <blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3487657" data-attributes="member: 48586">I've thought about this a great, great deal and worried that the more use of miniatures I have in my games that the players will stop imagining the game. If you're the DM ask your players if this is the case for them... that they are not getting to imagine it because of the use of minis. When you DM with simply descriptive words and exchanges with your players where everything takes place in the mind, you as the DM are seeing it a lot more in your mind's eye. However, using minis while at the same time providing all of that great descriptive narrative you like to use may seem to change that for you, it doesn't necessarily change it for your players. In fact, I venture to say that if asked, most players would say they are imagining the game just as well as if they weren't using any minis at all.The onus is on the DM to make the experience one of imagination. The use of minis are meant to aid that. Not to take away from it. If the game devolves into a simple quasi-chess match of moving figurines around the table... well, who's fault is that? The DM's. When I hear my players talk about past games with each other or a new player that joins the game. I hear a lot descriptions about their adventures and the atmosphere at the time, but I never hear about how their minis were moved this way or that way to create some tactical advantage or whatnot.Oh, and just to address the OP's concern, I've never used the word PnP before and never knew what it meant until reading some of these threads. However, I've used Table Top games for years interchangeable with RPGs.EDIT: I have never played DDM Skirmish games as it does seem to be a game more about the minis than the RPG experience and I believe that is obvious and intentional. For those that simply like the true table top wargames, then that's fine. But I can see the problem for someone that thinks he's playing RPG D&D and is using the miniatures system. In that case, my advice is ditch that system, keep the minis <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=":)" />.</blockquote>

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