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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mathew_Freeman" data-source="post: 387320" data-attributes="member: 1846">The first two opinions on here I agree with. Yes, mats can be restrictive to the imagination and encourage meta-battling (should I trademark that term? <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). So if your players are happy with it, and you can keep track of positions in a way thats fine for you, then great.However, sometimes you really need a mat. Say, when you have whiny players that continually don't listen to your descriptions and get all annoyed when their mage gets charged because they didn't think the ogre was close enough. In these cases, a battlemat is essential to stop arguments and make players play instead of claiming ignorance!I don't know. My brother uses a mat for big battles, and that works well, but sometimes for the routine dungeon stuff its distracting. Having something on the mat is not as much fun as visualising it properly in your head. Some games have become, as noted, more about the drawing on the mat than the combat in your head.</blockquote>