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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 6177940" data-attributes="member: 46713">Maybe there are regional differences? In 29 nine years of playing D&D we've been using minis (or tokens) to represent battles all of the time except for the first few couple of sessions. The problem is: 'Theatre of the Mind' fails if only one of the players (or the DM) isn't completely on board with it all the time. In the groups I participated in, there were always debates about exact positioning: "What? How can the monster attack me? I'm in a competely different corner of the room. If there was a monster that close to me you should have told me. No way would I have stayed put there otherwise." This carried over to other systems as well. We may not have used tape measures but I clearly remember sessions being interrupted to calculate the trajectory and blast volume covered by a fireball.The only thing that changed with 3e/4e was the sophistication of the game aids we used: Instead of scrap paper, tokens and the occasional lead miniature we started using pre-painted plastic minis, dungeon tiles and poster maps.</blockquote>