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<blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 6238304" data-attributes="member: 59411"><p>I can only speak from my experience and the times I've taught the game, and I found people enjoy the miniature over just about any other representation, especially if you're going to include battle maps. It's a fun little dude to move around and play with. No, that's not very logic-based, but why not if first-time players with little to no experience with D&D make selections based on pictures or a DM's one-sentence class summary. I've seen them also make a selection based on the "cool little guy" versus that "little guy". </p><p></p><p>To me it also hearkens back to my first experiences playing out of a box. Those minis were right alongside the dice as the first things I pulled out of the box and just wondered about. I examined the small details of each one and my interest was piqued. Truthfully, it doesn't strike me as threatening to the theatre-of-the-mind play at all. Illustrations, maps, I find minis at least for the players are just a means of enhancing the experience. </p><p></p><p>But I do see a point with expectations. I feel like the rules and adventure would go much farther in establishing that, though, than having a little man or woman. And premades, well, that has been pretty clutch to me teaching the game in 5 minutes rather than 25 minutes most times. Ideally, that box has the premades for the first adventure, but also the means to create a character 1-5.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pour, post: 6238304, member: 59411"] I can only speak from my experience and the times I've taught the game, and I found people enjoy the miniature over just about any other representation, especially if you're going to include battle maps. It's a fun little dude to move around and play with. No, that's not very logic-based, but why not if first-time players with little to no experience with D&D make selections based on pictures or a DM's one-sentence class summary. I've seen them also make a selection based on the "cool little guy" versus that "little guy". To me it also hearkens back to my first experiences playing out of a box. Those minis were right alongside the dice as the first things I pulled out of the box and just wondered about. I examined the small details of each one and my interest was piqued. Truthfully, it doesn't strike me as threatening to the theatre-of-the-mind play at all. Illustrations, maps, I find minis at least for the players are just a means of enhancing the experience. But I do see a point with expectations. I feel like the rules and adventure would go much farther in establishing that, though, than having a little man or woman. And premades, well, that has been pretty clutch to me teaching the game in 5 minutes rather than 25 minutes most times. Ideally, that box has the premades for the first adventure, but also the means to create a character 1-5. [/QUOTE]
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