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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8239398" data-attributes="member: 85555">I think in most instances I wouldn't note something like a two foot difference. I am imagining something in my head and saying to myself &quot;that seems about 10 feet high&quot;. But like I said, i can imagine a scale next to it if distance is very important (which it was in the session two days ago that I mentioned). The image I put on the page was in my head before I wrote it down. I am not claiming perfect measurement in my head by any stretch. I am saying I can imagine a workable model. And I think this is something you have to do a lot and cultivate if you run theater of the mind (which is what I always do because I hate tactical grids and miniatures). If you don't want players getting mad at you all the time, you have to really visualize what is going on so you can relay that to your players or note it on paper for them. This is especially the case if you are running theater of the mind, melee combat heavy (wuxia in my case) campaigns.This is the way I imagine everything. I don't imagine my settings history as text (nor do I imagine real world history as text). I imagine a timeline with things marked not he timeline----and I imagine maps in my head----for example a map of the extent of the Roman Empire at its height. When I think about Caligula for example, I see a timeline with a focus on around 40 AD (he reigned from 37 to 41 AD). Not saying this are prefect mu head. But I am saying I see images not text. When I smell something, I don't see text or have a verbal description, I see color and texture.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8239398, member: 85555"] I think in most instances I wouldn't note something like a two foot difference. I am imagining something in my head and saying to myself "that seems about 10 feet high". But like I said, i can imagine a scale next to it if distance is very important (which it was in the session two days ago that I mentioned). The image I put on the page was in my head before I wrote it down. I am not claiming perfect measurement in my head by any stretch. I am saying I can imagine a workable model. And I think this is something you have to do a lot and cultivate if you run theater of the mind (which is what I always do because I hate tactical grids and miniatures). If you don't want players getting mad at you all the time, you have to really visualize what is going on so you can relay that to your players or note it on paper for them. This is especially the case if you are running theater of the mind, melee combat heavy (wuxia in my case) campaigns. This is the way I imagine everything. I don't imagine my settings history as text (nor do I imagine real world history as text). I imagine a timeline with things marked not he timeline----and I imagine maps in my head----for example a map of the extent of the Roman Empire at its height. When I think about Caligula for example, I see a timeline with a focus on around 40 AD (he reigned from 37 to 41 AD). Not saying this are prefect mu head. But I am saying I see images not text. When I smell something, I don't see text or have a verbal description, I see color and texture. [/QUOTE]

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