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<blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 370622" data-attributes="member: 1308">re: BattlematsI find that it varies, depending on the situation. For instance, in my first session as a DM, we had two combats.The first was outside of a ruined keep, with a crumbling wall surrounding it. Since the position of the characters was important (they were ambushed by giant rats), I had a rough map drawn up on the fly when the attack began. We used that for the rest of the battle.Later, they entered a room and were attacked by skeletons. In this combat, all I needed to know was, &quot;who is standing in the doorway, and who is inside the room?&quot; Beyond that, it was purely descriptive and all in the head.Which actually lead to one of the most fun combats I've seen. One of the players had his character flip a table up and slam a skeleton into a wall, then drop the skellie to the floor. He proceeded to topple the table on the skeleton and hop up and down on it, until I ruled the skeleton smashed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kesh, post: 370622, member: 1308"] [b]re: Battlemats[/b] I find that it varies, depending on the situation. For instance, in my first session as a DM, we had two combats. The first was outside of a ruined keep, with a crumbling wall surrounding it. Since the position of the characters was important (they were ambushed by giant rats), I had a rough map drawn up on the fly when the attack began. We used that for the rest of the battle. Later, they entered a room and were attacked by skeletons. In this combat, all I needed to know was, "who is standing in the doorway, and who is inside the room?" Beyond that, it was purely descriptive and all in the head. Which actually lead to one of the most fun combats I've seen. One of the players had his character flip a table up and slam a skeleton into a wall, then drop the skellie to the floor. He proceeded to topple the table on the skeleton and hop up and down on it, until I ruled the skeleton smashed. :D [/QUOTE]

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