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Message: <blockquote data-quote="just__al" data-source="post: 1080841" data-attributes="member: 11068">There are a few feats, abilities and skills that don't work as well as they might without knowing where everybody is in relation to each other.The ones that come to mind right away are Tumble, Mobility, Spring Attack, Combat reflexes, charging, and flanking.You certainly can keep track of everything without a map and mini's but it's not easy to do.  If you play with attacks of opportunity and other rules that pretty well require to know where people are.However, you do not need to plonk down 30 dollars on a chesex battle mat and start painting minatures.  You can tape some hex paper to a cork board (or some thick cardboard) and use push pins to keep track of where people are.  It wouldn't cost a lot and wouldn't take up a lot of room on the table.My group does in fact use a battle mat and minatures.  Most of the people in the game actually enjoy painting them.  I've taken to using the creature tokens from dungeon and mage knight pieces since they are pretty cheap but I plan on painting a minuture for the next campaign when I actually get to play instead of DM.I'd hate to spend all my feats and skill points on movement based abilities and then never have them come into play.</blockquote>